Toyama Prefecture | |||||||||
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Capital | Toyama City | ||||||||
Region | Chūbu | ||||||||
Island | Honshū | ||||||||
Governor | Takakazu Ishii | ||||||||
Area (rank) | 4,247.22 km² (33rd) | ||||||||
- % water | 0.1% | ||||||||
Population (Estimated as of February 1, 2008) | |||||||||
- Population | 1,104,239 (38th) | ||||||||
- Density | 260 /km² | ||||||||
Districts | 2 | ||||||||
Municipalities | 15 | ||||||||
ISO 3166-2 | JP-16 | ||||||||
Website | Official Toyama Prefecture Homepage (English) | ||||||||
Prefectural Symbols | |||||||||
- Flower | Tulip (Tulipa) | ||||||||
- Tree | Tateyama Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) | ||||||||
- Bird | Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) | ||||||||
[[Image:|130px|Symbol of Toyama Prefecture]] Symbol of Toyama Prefecture |
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Toyama Prefecture (富山県 Toyama-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Toyama.
Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity due to abundant water resources. The Itai-itai disease occurred in Toyama around 1950.
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Historically, Toyama Prefecture was Etchū Province.
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 rice field belt that use of abundant water form Mt.Tateyama.
Toyama is famous for its historical pharmaceutical industry which remains a top manufacturing industry in the prefecture in terms of manufacturing shipment value followed by electronic parts and devices (industrial robots, general machinery, etc.), and metal products (aluminum, copper etc.) manufacturing.[1]
The Kurobe dam generates electricity for the Kansai Electric Power Company. It is located on the Kurobe River in Toyama Prefecture.
Population: 1,104,239 (estimated as of Feb. 1, 2008)
Tokyo: 3 hr 8 min via Joetsu Shinkansen , transfer to Hokuriku Main Line via the Hakutaka Limited Express at Echigo Yuzawa
Osaka: 3 hr 5 min via Thunderbird Limited Express
Tokyo: 5 hr
Osaka: 4 hr 10 min
Nagoya: 3 hr 15 min
Toyama Airport (TOY)
Domestic:
Tokyo 1 hr Sapporo 1 hr 20 min Fukuoka 1 hr 30 min
International:
Shanghai 2 hr 30 min Via Shanghai Airlines Dalian 2 hr 30 min Via Southern China Airlines Seoul 1 hr 50 min Via Asiana Airlines Vladivostok 2 hr 40 min Via Vladivostok Airlines
Gokayama Historical Village (Nanto City)
Zuiryū-ji Temple (Takaoka City)
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
The sports teams listed below are based in Toyama.
Football (soccer)
Basketball
Baseball
Rugby Union
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