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ToyamaHistoric DistrictsKurobe
Aimotobashi
A cantilever bridge that once spanned the Kurobe river, with a legend of a princess and a great serpent.
Tateyama
Nunobashi Kanjoe
A rite in which women crossed a cloth bridge blindfolded, in place of the climb they were barred from. Salvation without the ascent.
ToyamaArchitectureUozu
Uozu Shinkiro
A coast where mirages appear. With the buried forest, it was long an object of awe.
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Kurobe Dam
At 186 metres, the tallest in Japan. It took seven years to build, and 171 people died.
ToyamaNature & SceneryTateyama
Yuki no Otani
You walk between walls of snow 20 metres high, cut open by the ploughs.
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ToyamaCraft ExperiencesKurobe
Kurobe Gorge Railway
A line built to carry materials for the dam, later opened to passengers.
ToyamaNature & SceneryTakaoka
Amaharashi Coast
Across the water, the 3,000-metre peaks of the Tateyama range stand in a row.
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Owara Kaze no Bon
For three days and nights the hill town dances in silence. The kokyu fiddle carries through the streets.
Himi
Himi Morning Market
Winter yellowtail taken in set nets. What comes in at dawn is on the counter that day.
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ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.
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Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga
A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.
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Toyama Glass Art Museum
Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.
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Toyama Glass Studio
Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.
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Sato Memorial Museum of Art
Inside the castle park, built around a businessman's gift of tea utensils and Asian antiquities.
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Toyama Folkcraft Village
Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.
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Iwase District and Mori House
A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.
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Etchu Washi
Three papermaking districts designated together; at Yatsuo the paper itself is stencil-dyed.