For longer tours in Japan incorporating Toyama, try Wondertrunk & Co. Published in the Japan supplement, distributed with the October 2023 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) .

The Toyama-ken Hotaruika Kyokai, an association made up of local fishermen and others, encourages consumers to eat firefly squid on the mid-spring Day of the Ox, which falls on April 27 this year.

A celebration of Toyama’s glass industry, ... Its contemporary foundry—which also continues to cast bronze artifacts for Buddhist rituals—is open for public tours and hands-on casting workshops.

Toyama historically lags behind. According to Terutoshi Hibino's “Sushi Dictionary,” nigiri sushi, which originated in Edo in the early 1800s, spread across Japan in the early to mid-1900s. The Toyama ...

A tour of a vacant “100-yen Akiya” house is held in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture, on Sept. 8 with the support of a real estate agent and a city official.

What to do in Toyama, Japan: Explore the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route. The Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route is one of the world's most famous mountain tourist sites.

A U.S. firebombing campaign targeted Toyama and other Japanese cities, killing 180,000 before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, write geographer Cary Karacas and historian David Fedman.

Toyama Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Toyama area.

KUROBE, Toyama Prefecture—The Kurobe Gorge Railway is offering visitors breathtaking views of the snow-covered valley through train windows on a winter-exclusive sightseeing package.

Toyama nestles between a deep blue bay and snow-topped peaks, some 250km northwest of Tokyo. In many ways, it is a quintessential regional Japanese city: its residents are greying, its industry is ...