VALUE VILLAGE · DISCOVERY

Discover Japan

Explore shrines, travel, art and industry

Compiled from supplied material, not independently verified item by item. Confirm opening hours, access and accuracy with the operator. Counts are records, not unique places.

KeywordPrefectureCategoryThemeAreaTypeReset filters

293 records · 2/13

富山県 · Shrines & temples

Maibotsurin

魚津市呉東

Cedar roots from about two thousand years ago remain beneath the sea.

富山県 · Shrines & temples

Hakusangu

南砺市呉西

The oldest wooden building in Toyama, where the kokiriko dance is preserved.

富山県 · Tourism

Yui

南砺市呉西

Rethatching a roof is done by the whole village together, a system of mutual aid. Faith and daily life run continuously into each other.

富山県 · Tourism

Ainokura

南砺市呉西

A village of gassho-zukuri houses. Silkworms were raised under the roofs.

富山県 · Tourism

Suganuma

南砺市呉西

A small village where nine gassho-zukuri houses survive.

富山県 · Tourism

Karashima

氷見市呉西

An island afloat in the sea off Himi. The faith of a town that fishes with set nets.

富山県 · Tourism

Aimotobashi

黒部市呉東

A cantilever bridge that once spanned the Kurobe river, with a legend of a princess and a great serpent.

富山県 · Tourism

Nunobashi Kanjoe

立山町呉東

A rite in which women crossed a cloth bridge blindfolded, in place of the climb they were barred from. Salvation without the ascent.

富山県 · Tourism

Uozu Shinkiro

魚津市呉東

A coast where mirages appear. With the buried forest, it was long an object of awe.

富山県 · Tourism

Kurobe Dam

立山町呉東

At 186 metres, the tallest in Japan. It took seven years to build, and 171 people died.

富山県 · Tourism

Yuki no Otani

立山町呉東

You walk between walls of snow 20 metres high, cut open by the ploughs.

富山県 · Tourism

Gokayama

南砺市呉西

Villages of gassho-zukuri houses. Under the roofs they raised silkworms and made saltpetre.

富山県 · Tourism

Kurobe Gorge Railway

黒部市呉東

A line built to carry materials for the dam, later opened to passengers.

富山県 · Tourism

Amaharashi Coast

高岡市呉西

Across the water, the 3,000-metre peaks of the Tateyama range stand in a row.

富山県 · Tourism

Owara Kaze no Bon

富山市呉東

For three days and nights the hill town dances in silence. The kokyu fiddle carries through the streets.

富山県 · Tourism

Himi Morning Market

氷見市呉西

Winter yellowtail taken in set nets. What comes in at dawn is on the counter that day.

富山県 · Tourism

Sankyoson

砺波市呉西

Houses ringed by windbreak groves, scattered across the paddies. A way of living apart.

富山県 · Tourism

Inami

南砺市呉西

Carving became an industry through the rebuilding of Zuisenji. Workshops stand eave to eave.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design

富山市呉東

Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga

富山市呉東

A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Glass Art Museum

富山市呉東

Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Glass Studio

富山市呉東

Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.

富山県 · Art & museums

Sato Memorial Museum of Art

富山市呉東

Inside the castle park, built around a businessman's gift of tea utensils and Asian antiquities.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Folkcraft Village

富山市呉東

Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.