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.

2 spots

Climate & Best Season

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

Okado somen does not come in the straight bundles that somen comes in everywhere else. It is hand-stretched, then coiled…

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