Toyama (prefecture)

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Toyama prefecture (富山県 Toyama-ken) is in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu.

[edit] Understand

[edit] Cities

  • Toyama - the prefectural capital
  • Takaoka - beautiful city-by-the-sea and home to the Takaoka Great Buddha Statue (高岡大仏 Takaoka Daibutsu)

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[edit] Get in

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123bus [1] is company which provides daily night time bus services between Tokyo and Toyama. With online bus booking service in English.

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  • 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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