Toyama Prefecture (富山県 Toyama-ken) is in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Understand
[edit]Tourist Information Site
[edit]Visit Toyama is the prefecture's official multilingual guide site.
Cities
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Map of Toyama (prefecture)
- 1 Toyama - the prefectural capital
- 2 Takaoka - beautiful city-by-the-sea and home to the Takaoka Great Buddha Statue (高岡大仏 Takaoka Daibutsu)
- 3 Oyabe
- 4 Himi
- 5 Tonami
- 6 Nanto
- 7 Uozu
- 8 Namerikawa
- 9 Imizu
- 10 Kamiichi
- 11 Kurobe
- 12 Nyuzen
- 13 Funahashi
Other destinations
[edit]- 1 Gokayama — World Heritage Site famous for its gassho-zukuri houses
- Kurobe Gorge -In Kurobe city. Notable for having a unique truck train that goes about half way up the gorge, but also for great hiking and hot springs. Access from Unazuki Onsen station.
- Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route - A remote link between Nagano and Toyama through a string of several unique forms of transportation constructed to give access to Kurobe dam. Access from Tateyama station (near Toyama) or Shinano-Omachi near Matsumoto.
Get in
[edit]By plane
[edit]Tiny 1 Toyama Airport 
in Toyama (TOY IATA) has flights from Tokyo, Sapporo, Seoul and Taipei.
By train
[edit]Toyama is connected to Tokyo (2 hrs) and Kanazawa (30 min) by the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line. There are stations at Toyama, Takaoka and Unazuki Onsen.
By bus
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- Oyabe - a traditional field festival, onsen spot
- Namerikawa - water skiing and hang-gliding, scenic views
- Himi - secluded seaside fishing village with excellent fish market
- Gokayama - deep in the mountains near the border with Gifu, has a couple of well-preserved gassho-style thatched-houses villages
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