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Toyama

Mountainous scenery and a spectacular snow corridor

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黒部峡谷鉄道  (Photo: 黒部峡谷鉄道 – tomo tang / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Top Attractions in Toyama

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Upcoming Toyama Events

Chindon Festival

Chindon Festival

Apr 5th - Apr 7th

Chindon performers dressed in colorful costumes dancing and playing their musical instruments in the streets of Toyama City.

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Asahi Funagawa Spring Quartet

Asahi Funagawa Spring Quartet

Apr 1st - Apr 14th

The Asahi Funagawa Spring Quartet event runs for two weeks during April, and it's a real celebration of the season, with sakura,..

Free Entry
Sakura Season at Toyama's Matsukawa Park

Sakura Season at Toyama's Matsukawa Park

Early - Mid Apr

Toyama's Matsukawa Park is home to around 500 cherry trees that line the banks of the Matsukawa River. It is also one of Japan's..

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Places to stay in Toyama

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Fugan Suijo Line

Fugan Suijo Line

Gaurav Raja Dahal

This leisure cruise starts from Kansui Park all the way to the port town of Iwase. If you can understand Japanese, you can also..

Shinkiro Road

Shinkiro Road

Gaurav Raja Dahal

Also known as Shinkiro road, the Uozu Coastline Cycling Route runs from Kyoden to Mirageland along the city’s coastline.

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About Toyama

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Chubu
Island Honshu
Capital Toyama
Population 1,093,247
Area 4247.61 km²

The characters for Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken) mean “abundant in mountains,” and just as its name suggests, its many 3,000-meter mountains offer challenging hikes for outdoor enthusiasts.

Though lesser known than the nearby Shirakawa-go, the Gokayama district is famous for its similar gassho-zukuri style houses and is a World Heritage Site as well. The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a scenic drive in the warmer seasons but is surrounded by walls of snow (often higher than 10 meters tall) in the winter.

The powerful Kurobe Dam in Kurobe Gorge is the largest dam in Japan, while Zuiryu-ji is the prefecture’s only national treasure. Dishes of buri, or yellowtail, is the prefecture’s speciality cuisine.

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