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  • Murakamike House
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Pref. Nantoshi Kaminashi 725
    Murakamike house stands out even in Gokayama which is famous for Gassho style houses. It is a representative building that doesn’t remodel the style of olden days, and it even now conveys the architectural style of yesteryear to people of the present. It has also been designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan. There are a lot of folklore materials on display in this building which boasts a history dating back 400 years, and at the irori fire pit, you can hear an account by the present head of the house. There are snow camellia named “Gokayama Iris” in the garden, and the best time to come and see them is from late April until early May.
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  • Toyama Shimin Plaza
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Toyama Toyama-shi Otemachi 6-14
    A mall and multipurpose complex located a 15-minute walk from JR Toyama Station in Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture. The mall is occupied by boutiques, a sporting goods store, and other shops; a music school and pottery school, and cafes. There's also a music hall used for concerts, and numerous rental spaces used for lectures, art exhibitions, and a variety of other events. There are also public facilities such as a community center and resident's learning center.
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  • Shomyo Falls Viewing Area
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji
    A viewing area in Ashikuraji, Tateyama, Nakaniikawa. It's a part of the rest area near Shomyo Falls, Japan's largest waterfall with a drop of 350 meters. With models and materials on display regarding Shomyo Falls, you can learn all about waterfalls.
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  • Tonami Sankyoson Museum
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Tonami-shi Taromaru 80
    A museum in Taromaru, Tonami. Exhibits cover the history and folk customs of Sankyoson village, a collection of nearly 7000 farmhouses that dot the Tonami Plain. It's made up of four exhibition halls including the Folk Articles Hall which has a collection of nearly 1,000 farming tools and daily articles which has been designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan, and the Traditions Hall which is the relocated Azumadachi building, a great example of village architectural style.
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  • Tonami Folk Items Museum
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Tonami-shi Ranjo 566 (Sho Higashi Elementary School 3F)
    The museum is located on the third floor of Shoto Elementary School in Tonami City, and houses and exhibits about 12,000 folk tools used for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and social life, including farming tools from the Tonami region. and about 6,000 of them are displayed in the Tonami Folk Tools Exhibition Room.
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  • Rakusuitei Museum of Art
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Okudashinmachi 2-27
    "This modern art museum is a ten minute walk north from JR Toyama Station. The name stems from the fact that the arbor in the garden was named ""Rakusuitei"" (literally meaning ""pavilion for enjoying the greenery"") by Otani Kosho, who was the head monk of Nishi Hongan-ji Temple. The main gallery is located inside of a nostalgic old Japanese-style house. It displays works of pottery and handicrafts that harmonize with the four seasonal faces of the museum's Japanese garden. The museum also has a gallery built inside of an old renovated storehouse. It serves as a place to exhibit a variety of expressions, embodiments, and challenges, including both flat and three-dimensional pieces. The museum's shop, located inside of a modern western-style building, offers a selection of souvenirs characteristic of Toyama Prefecture including original merchandise and artisanal pottery."
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  • Yatsuo Hikiyama Exhibition
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    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Yatsuomachikamishinmachi 2898-1
    This hall exhibition Yatsuo's famous Hikiyama festival floats is next to the Hikiyama Tenjikan-mae bus stop, an 11-minute bus ride from JR Takayama Main Line Etchu-Yatsuo Station. The six 7.5 meter-tall floats, each decorated with dazzling carvings representing the pinnacle of Etchu artistic handicraft, have been designated as Toyama Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Properties. Three of the floats are on permanent display. The hall also features exhibits on the history and tools of sericulture (silk farming) in Yatsuo, as well as a collection of woodblock prints by printer maker Akiji Hayashi. The hall also holds Kaze no Bon stage shows on every second and fourth Saturday. Attendees can thoroughly enjoy the shamisen and kokyu (traditional Japanese string instruments) performances, magnificent dances, and other great parts of the Owara Kaze no Bon Festival.
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  • Yatsuo Owara Museum
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Pref. Toyamashi Yatsuomachihigashimachi 2105-1
    This museum is a 13-minute bus ride on the counterclockwise route and a 28-minute bus ride on the clockwise route via the Yatsuo Community Bus Loop Line from JR Takayama Main Line Etchu-Yatsuo Station. The museum, located inside of a recreation of a traditional Yatsuo townhouse, provides detailed information on the history of the Yatsuo Owara Kaze no Bon Festival and the Owara dance, traditional performing arts, and other more. The museum also features a great deal of historical materials on Junji Kawasaki, the late father of the Owara dance's revival. These include materials on the exchanges between Kawasaki and a great number of notable writers and artists such as Hoan Kosugi and Ujo Noguchi. In the video exhibit room, visitors can enjoy videos of the Owara dance on a large screen.
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  • Genbei Kurikara Kosenjo
    Travel / Tourism
    Ishikawa Kahoku-gun Tsubatamachi Kurikara
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  • Tonami Demachi Children Kabuki Hikiyama Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Tonami-shi Demachi Chuo 5-4
    Tonami Demachi Children Kabuki Hikiyama Hall image
  • Nanto Baseball Bat Museum
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Toyama Nanto-shi Fukumitsu 6754 Higashimachi Shotenkai Higashi Hall
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  • Toyama Prefecture Tateyama Museum Mandala Yuen Park
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    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji
    This is one part of the dispersed museums making up the Tateyama Museum complex. This is the same ground that gave birth to the worship of Tateyama, and this museum recreates in three dimensions the Tateyama Mandala, an image handed down from the Heian period against the unchanging backdrop of the Tateyama range. It is made up of four sections: the earthly plane, the path of the sun, the heavens, and the path of dark, and each one is recreated in shape, sound, light, and aroma.
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  • Murododaira Memorial Tower
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Division Dodaira
    The 3-meter-high memorial tower is located about a 10-minute walk from the Murodo Terminal and was built to pray for the repose of the souls of those who died in accidents, such as climbers of Tateyama.
  • Construction Worker Dead Memorial
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Bunazaka Kokuyurin
    "Kurobe dam is known as Kuroyon (Kurobe Dai-Yon Power Station) began in July 1956 and was completed in June 1963. The seven year project was called ""A major project for a new century."" The construction took the lives of 171 people, and this monument has a relief carving and the names of the 171 victims to protect their memory."
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  • Oyama Jinja Moutain Peak Main Shrine
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Oyama Mountain peak
    This ancient shrine on sacred Mt. Tateyama was founded about 1,300 years ago, in 701, by the Emperor Monmu. It is very widely known, and was mentioned in the Ryojin Hisho compiled by Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the Heian period, the Shintoshu compiled by Ango-in in the Kamakura period, and in the Shugaisho written by Toin Kinkata. It is found atop a massive crag on Oyama, the main peak of Mt.Tateyama, at 3,003 meters above sea level.
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  • Ecchu Pottery Village Pottery and Agriculture Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Setoshin 31
    This facility is located in the grand natural scenery at the base of the Tateyama mountain range, and aims to pass down the 400 year old history and traditions of Ecchu-Seto Yaki pottery and local agriculture as a unified culture. The entrance offers a taste of Ecchu-Seto Yaki history, and displays and sells pieces from five potters working at four different kilns who carry on those traditions to today. You can also reserve a pottery experience class up to the day before your visit.
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  • Kannon-do Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Tonami-shi Seridani 1111 Senkoji
    The Sacred Kannon Bodhisattva enshrined at Senko-ji temple is a Prefecture Designated Cultural Property. Kannon-do is the building holding the principal object of worship here, the Bronze Kannon Bodhisattva statue, and its main construction is the work of an Inami carpenter the second-generation Matsui Kakuhei Tsuneyoshi. Kannon-do's incredible fittings include paneled doors, and latticed doors and windows, and the temple roof has incredible carvings of a dragon transom, and a tiger lurking in bamboo, while the interior transoms have various figures including a must-see lion carving.
  • Kainyo Garden
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Tonami-shi Yutakamachi
    "This facility was built to help preserve the vanishing kainyo copses around the dispersed farmhouses for future generations, and to offer a center for lifelong learning. Dispersed villages are communities where the farmhouses are scattered around individually, and the small copses around each house which create their unique scenery are called ""kainyo."" The former Kanaoka family house was designated as a Tonami City Cultural Property in 2002 as a representative large house of the Tonami Plain Dispersed Village region."
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  • Sanmon Gate
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nanto-shi Inami 3050 Inami Betsuin Zuisenji
    This is the Sanmon gate for Inamibetsuin Zuisen-ji temple, designated a Japanese Heritage site in 2018, in woodworking city Inami. Master carpenter Shibata Shinhachiro Sadahide, carpenter for Kyoto's Higashi Hongan-ji temple, began work on it in 1785, but he returned to Kyoto in 1788 to help with reconstruction after a fire. An Inami carpenter, the deputy director, the second-generation Matsui K. T. took over the work and successfully completed the Sanmon gate in 1806 It is a designated Important Cultural Asset.
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  • Shikidaimon (Chokushimon Gate)
    Travel / Tourism
    Toyama Nanto-shi Inami 3050 Inami Betsuin Zuisenji
    Built in 1792, in 2005 this gate was restored to its original condition of 200 years before. It is also called the Imperial Gate: Kiku no Mon. It is on the east side of the main gate of Shinshu Otani sect's Inami Betsuin Zensui-ji temple. The tradition of wood carving it demonstrates is highly regarded, with the floating dragon on the main gate, the imperial gate's lion's cub, and main hall's central transom Karyobinga mystical bird carving.
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Toyama is one of the three prefectures that house the Japanese Alps, with its southern and eastern borders comprising one long stretch of mountains, out of which the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is forged. While traditional crafts fill the northern coastal cities of Toyama and Takaoka, thatched roof houses offer unrivalled views against a backdrop of fantastic scenery at Gokayama in the mountainous area in the south of the prefecture.

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