Toyama (prefecture)

Toyama prefecture (富山県 Toyama-ken) is in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu. Understand Cities Oyabe Toyama - the prefectural capital Takaoka - beautiful city-by-the-sea and home to the Takaoka Great Buddha Statue (高岡大仏 Takaoka Daibutsu) Other destinations Gokayama — World Heritage Site famous for its gassho-zukuri houses Talk Get in By plane By train By bus 123bus [1] is company which provides daily night time bus services between Tokyo and Toyama. With online bus booking service in English. Get around See Oyabe - a traditional field festival, onsen spot 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 Kurobe Gorge - 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. This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!