Hidden Gems Across Japan
1,610 spots
Lake Kawaguchiko
Lake Kawaguchiko is the most accessible and developed of the Fuji Five Lakes, offering the clearest reflection views of…
Chureito Pagoda
The Chureito Pagoda, a five-story vermillion structure perched on the hillside above Fujiyoshida City, offers the postca…
Toyama Glassware & Traditional Crafts
Toyama has two craft traditions worth knowing: Etchū glass from Toyama City (modern, 1990s-vintage, born when the prefec…
Gokayama Washi Papermaking
Gokayama has produced traditional washi paper (和紙) for over 400 years, using kozo (mulberry bark) harvested from surroun…
Toyama City Night View from Kureha Hills
The Kureha Hills (呉羽山, Kureha-yama) on Toyama City's western edge offer sweeping panoramic views across Toyama City, Toy…
Iwase Canal Historic District
The Iwase Canal (岩瀬運河) district in northern Toyama City is a preserved Meiji-era port town featuring historic wooden war…
Amaharashi Coast
Amaharashi Coast (雨晴海岸) is a 3km stretch of rocky coastline on Toyama Bay, famous for views of the 3,000-meter Tateyama…
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design
The Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design (富山県美術館, TAD) is a contemporary art museum opened in 2017, housed in a str…
Toyama Castle & Matsukawa River Cruise
Toyama Castle (富山城) is a reconstructed castle in central Toyama City, originally built in the 16th century and destroyed…
Illustration — not a photographHimi Buri
Himi City (氷見市) on Toyama Bay is Japan's premier fishing ground for kanburi (寒ブリ, winter yellowtail) — prized yellowtail…
Zuiryuji Temple
Zuiryuji Temple (瑞龍寺) is a National Treasure Zen temple in Takaoka City, representing the pinnacle of early Edo-period t…
Unazuki Onsen
Unazuki Onsen (宇奈月温泉) is Toyama's premier hot spring resort town, nestled at the entrance to Kurobe Gorge where the Kuro…
Toyama Black Ramen
Toyama Black Ramen (富山ブラックラーメン) is an intensely salty, soy-sauce-heavy ramen style created in post-war Toyama as fuel fo…
Toyama Glass Art Museum
The Toyama Glass Art Museum (富山市ガラス美術館, TOYAMAキラリ) is a striking contemporary museum designed by architect Kengo Kuma, f…
Toyama Sushi
Toyama Bay is renowned as Japan's 'natural fish preserve' — a unique underwater topography where depths plunge to 1,000+…
Toyama Bay Firefly Squid
Toyama Bay is the only place in the world where firefly squid (hotaru-ika, ホタルイカ) wash ashore en masse during their spaw…
Kurobe Gorge Railway
The Kurobe Gorge Railway (黒部峡谷鉄道, Kurobe Kyokoku Tetsudo) is a 20.1km scenic railway that travels through Japan's deepes…
Gokayama Gassho-Zukuri Villages
Gokayama is three mountain villages deep in Toyama's Sho River valley, known for gassho-zukuri farmhouses—steeply thatch…
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam (黒部ダム) is Japan's tallest dam at 186 meters, an engineering marvel completed in 1963 after a 7-year construct…
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route (Toyama side)
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is 90 kilometers of cable cars, ropeways, trolley buses, and highland coaches cutting t…
Northern Culture Museum
The Northern Culture Museum occupies the former estate of the Ito family, who were the largest landowners in Niigata dur…
Furumachi Geigi
Furumachi is Niigata City's historic geisha district, dating to the Edo period when Niigata Port was Japan's primary gat…
Gala Yuzawa Ski Resort
Gala Yuzawa is the only ski resort in the world with a dedicated shinkansen station inside the resort building — Tokyo v…
Hakusan Shrine Furusato Village
Hakusan Shrine is a modest Shinto shrine in Niigata City's outskirts, known not for its religious significance but for t…
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