'''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
  • Talk

    Get in

    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
  • Do

    Eat

    Drink

    Get out