Toyama Prefecture (富山県 Toyama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on Honshu island.[2]
The capital is the city of Toyama.[3]
Historically, Toyama Prefecture was Etchū Province.[5]
Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea
coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity from
abundant hydroelectric resources. It also contains East Asia’s only glaciers outside Russia, first recognized in 2012.[4]
Toyama Prefecture is bordered by Ishikawa Prefecture to the west, Niigata to the northeast, Nagano to the southeast, Gifu to the south and Sea of Japan to the north.
Due to the mergers in the 2000s, Toyama has the fewest municipalities of
any prefecture in Japan with 10 cities, 2 districts, 4 towns, and 1
village (before the mergers took place, the prefecture had 9 cities, 18
towns, and 8 villages).
Toyama is a major producer of high quality rice making use of abundant water sources originating from Mount Tate. Toyama is famous for its historical pharmaceutical industry which remains a top manufacturing industry in the prefecture.
Gokayama (五箇山) is an area within the city of Nanto in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture.[1]
Etchū Province (越中国 Etchū no kuni) was an old province in central Honshū, on the Sea of Japan side.[1] It was sometimes called Esshū (越州), with Echizen and Echigo Provinces.
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