'''Toyama prefecture''' (_x_R__ ''Toyama-ken'') is in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Understand
Cities
Toyama - the prefectural capital
Takaoka - beautiful city-by-the-sea and home to the Takaoka Great Buddha Statue (________ ''Takaoka Daibutsu'')
Other destinations
Gokayama — World Heritage Site famous for its ''gassho-zukuri'' houses
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By plane
By train
By bus
'''123bus''' [http://www.123bus.net/index.html] is company which provides daily night time bus services between Tokyo and Toyama. With online bus booking service in English.
Get around
See
Namerikawa - 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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