Toyama
Travel plans
Gokayama & Inami: UNESCO Gassho Villages, a Woodcarvers' Street & Handmade Paper — 2 Days
The woodcarvers' street and temple of Inami, the hand-paper mills of Gokayama, the historic Murakami house and a night in a gassho farmhouse minshuku at Ainokura, then the two UNESCO villages of Ainokura and Suganuma and the largest gassho house at Iwase-ke
Takaoka & Himi: A National-Treasure Zen Temple, 400-Year Metalcraft & the Tateyama-View Coast — 2 Days
Takaoka's National Treasure Zen temple Zuiryu-ji, its bronze Great Buddha and the copper-casting quarter of Kanayamachi, the Nousaku tin workshop, a night on the Himi coast, then the Tateyama-over-the-sea view at Amaharashi and a Himi seafood market lunch
Kurobe Gorge & Unazuki Onsen: A Torokko Train into the Ravine and a Riverside Hot Spring — 2 Days
An overnight at Unazuki Onsen with the Yamabiko Bridge promenade and a riverside ryokan soak, then the Kurobe Gorge torokko sightseeing train up the turquoise ravine to Nekomata — the confirmed 2026 route while the line beyond is under repair
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route: Snow Walls, a 2,450m Plateau & Japan's Tallest Dam — 2 Days
From Tateyama Station up through beech forest to the 2,450m Murodo plateau, the Yuki-no-Otani snow corridor and Mikurigaike pond, a night high at Midagahara, then over Daikanbo to the great arc of Kurobe Dam
First-Time Toyama City: Glass Art, the Bay's White Shrimp & an Iwase Sake Town — 2 Days
Toyama Castle park and the Kengo Kuma glass museum with its Chihuly garden, a bay white-shrimp lunch and a canal cruise to Kansui Park, then the Kitamae merchant houses of Higashi-Iwase, the Masuizumi brewery and a 300-year trout-sushi maker
Toyama travel guides
Gokayama Guide 2026: UNESCO Gassho Villages, Inami & Washi Paper
Kurobe Gorge Railway Guide 2026: Torokko Train & Unazuki Onsen
Takaoka & Himi Guide 2026: Zuiryu-ji, Copperware & the Bay Coast
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Guide 2026: Snow Walls & Kurobe Dam
