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is a region in the northeastern part of Honshu
Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, the main island of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. It lies along the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
 within the Chubu region
Chubu region

The is the central region of Honshu, Japan's main island. Chubu has a population estimate of 21,886,324 as of 2008.Chubu, which means "central region", encompasses nine prefectures: Aichi Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Yamanashi...
.

The Hokuriku region includes the prefectures of Toyama
Toyama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Toyama, Toyama.Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity due to abundant water resources....
, Ishikawa
Ishikawa Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is Kanazawa, Ishikawa....
 and Fukui
Fukui Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Fukui, Fukui....
. Niigata Prefecture
Niigata Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Honshu island on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata, Niigata. The name Niigata literally means "New Lagoon"....
 is sometimes included in the Hokuriku region and sometimes in one of the following regions.
region that includes Niigata and Nagano Prefecture
Nagano Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Nagano, Nagano....
.
region that includes Niigata, Nagano and Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kofu....
s.
region where the Hokuriku region meets the Shin'etsu region.


Hokuriku region has the highest volume of snowfall of any inhabited and arable region in the world.






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is a region in the northeastern part of Honshu
Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, the main island of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. It lies along the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
 within the Chubu region
Chubu region

The is the central region of Honshu, Japan's main island. Chubu has a population estimate of 21,886,324 as of 2008.Chubu, which means "central region", encompasses nine prefectures: Aichi Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Yamanashi...
.

The Hokuriku region includes the prefectures of Toyama
Toyama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Toyama, Toyama.Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity due to abundant water resources....
, Ishikawa
Ishikawa Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is Kanazawa, Ishikawa....
 and Fukui
Fukui Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Fukui, Fukui....
. Niigata Prefecture
Niigata Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Honshu island on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata, Niigata. The name Niigata literally means "New Lagoon"....
 is sometimes included in the Hokuriku region and sometimes in one of the following regions.
region that includes Niigata and Nagano Prefecture
Nagano Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Nagano, Nagano....
.
region that includes Niigata, Nagano and Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kofu....
s.
region where the Hokuriku region meets the Shin'etsu region.


Climate

The Hokuriku region has the highest volume of snowfall of any inhabited and arable region in the world. This is because dry Siberian
Siberia (continent)

Siberia is the craton located in the heart of the region of Siberia. Siberia or "Angaraland" is today the Central Siberian Plateau. It is an extremely ancient craton that formed an independent continent before the Permian...
 air mass
Air mass

In meteorology, an air mass is a large volume of air that have characteristics of temperature and water vapor content. Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles, and slowly change in accordance with the surface below them....
es, which develop high humidity
Humidity

Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air. In daily language the term "humidity" is normally taken to mean relative humidity. Relative humidity is defined as the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor in a Air parcel of air to the saturated vapor pressure of water vapor at a prescribed temperature....
 over the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
, are forced upwards when they encounter the mountains of Honshu
Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, causing the humidity to condense as snow.

The long winters and deep snow of this region are depicted in Hokuetsu Seppu
Hokuetsu Seppu

Hokuetsu Seppu is a late Edo period encyclopedic work of human geography describing life in the Minamiuonuma District, Niigata area of Japan's old Echigo Province, a place known for its long winters and deep snow....
, an encyclopedic work of the late Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 which describes life in the Uonuma
Minamiuonuma District, Niigata

is a districts of Japan located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 72,908 and a population density of 77.41 persons per km?....
 district of Niigata Prefecture.