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After two days of Kanazawa, I took the Noto line local clunker up into Nanao, the end of the JR line. You can always tell you're in the Japanese countryside when little "Jesus loves you" signs start appearing on houses, local banks adopt vegetables as their logos (for example, Notoshu Bank's is a carrot) and the biggest building around is the local JA, a mysterious institution whose primary function seems to be converting taxpayer dollars into the world's most expensive rice.