The Hokuriku region (北陸地方, Hokuriku chihō, Lit. “Northlands region”) is located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan. It lies along the Sea of Japan within the Chūbu region. It is almost equivalent to Koshi Province and Hokurikudō area in pre-modern Japan. The Hokuriku region includes the four prefectures of Ishikawa, Fukui.
The Hokuriku region has the highest volume of snowfall of any inhabited and arable region in the World.[citation needed] This is because dry Siberian air masses, which develop high humidity over the Sea of Japan, are forced upwards when they encounter the mountains of Honshū, causing the humidity to condense as snow. The long winters and deep snow of this region are depicted in Hokuetsu Seppu, an encyclopedic work of the late Edo period which describes life in the Uonuma district of Niigata Prefecture.

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