Toyama Hidden Gems

A bay of deep-water seafood backed by the 3,000-metre Tateyama range — the most dramatic mountain-to-sea drop in Japan.

5 spots

Climate & Best Season

Snowy winters, humid summers; the alpine route is buried under snow walls into spring. April–June and October are best.

Uchikawa is a canal running through the middle of the old port town of Shinminato, and the fishing fleet ties up along b…

The Fugan canal was dug in the 1930s to link central Toyama to its port, fell out of use, and the basin at the city end…

Shomyo is the tallest waterfall in Japan: 350 metres in four stages down a wall of columnar rock at the western edge of…

For about ten days in early April, a stretch of riverbank in the small town of Asahi produces one of the most improbable…

The Tonami plain is farmed in a pattern found in very few places: instead of villages, each farmhouse stands alone in th…