Notojima in Ishikawa: Aquarium, Glass Art Museum and the Bridge from Wakura Onsen

The Whale Shark Hall Blue World displays mainly fish from southern seas, among them whale sharks that migrate to the waters off Noto. About two thousand red sea bream swim as a school to piano music in the red sea bream show. The Fushigi na Suiso is a tank with pockets in its side, yet its water does not spill.

Getting to Notojima

Leg	How	Time or fare
Kanazawa Station to Wakura Onsen Station	Limited express train	About one hour
Nanao Station to Notojima Rinkai Park	Bus	An adult one-way fare of seven hundred eighty yen
Wakura Onsen to Notojima Aquarium	Over the Notojima Bridge	About fifteen minutes
Wakura Onsen Station to the Glass Art Museum	Bus	About thirty minutes

Shows and Animals at the Aquarium

Plan your morning around the dolphin and sea lion show, which runs about twenty minutes, with the first weekday show at ten in the morning. Pacific white-sided dolphins are not on display, for reasons of health management. The penguin walk lasts about ten minutes, with a weekday round at eleven in the morning.

Seal feeding time lasts about ten minutes, with a weekday round at ten fifty in the morning. The sardine big wave lasts about five minutes, with a weekday round at ten forty in the morning. A pair of small-clawed otters went on public view in the Marine Nature Hall.

Hours, Admission and Closures

• If you come between the twentieth of March and the thirtieth of November, the aquarium is open from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon.
• Between the first of December and the nineteenth of March, it is open from nine in the morning to half past four in the afternoon.
• Admission is until thirty minutes before closing.
• The aquarium is closed from the twenty-ninth to the thirty-first of December.

• General admission, for visitors of high school age and above, is one thousand eight hundred ninety yen.
• Children of junior high school age and under, from three years old, pay five hundred ten yen.
• Children under three pay nothing.

The stroller loan service is suspended.

Ishikawa Notojima Glass Art Museum

Plan around the season, since from April to November the museum is open from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon, while from December to March it is open from nine in the morning to half past four in the afternoon. Last entry is thirty minutes before closing time.

The museum is closed on the third Tuesday of each month, or on the following day when that Tuesday is a public holiday. It is also closed at the turn of the year, from the twenty-ninth of December to the first of January.

The Notojima Bridge, the Roadside Station and Where to Stay

Cross the Notojima Bridge, a little over a kilometer in length, on your way onto the island.

Michi-no-Eki Notojima, the roadside station, is partly open after the earthquake.

Travelers who want to stay overnight can look at places to stay around Nanao and Wakura Onsen.