Tateyama Alpine Route in Motion Somrak Bhakdisuparit Early fall colors along Tateyama Alpine Route on a rainy day. Bathe in nature traveling via various transportation modes alon...
Suganuma Gassho Village in Toyama Takako Sakamoto Suganuma Village in Gokayama Gassho-style Villages; A World Heritage Site with newly set-up roads and tunnels. I was mesmeriz...
The Ever Changing Toyama Coast Takako Sakamoto The sea fog at Amaharashi Beach in Himi City of Toyama Prefecture, and the changeable Japan Sea, first calm then stormy, near...
Culture Oyama Jinja Kerrie Hankinson Perched on the top of Tateyama's Oyama Peak is Oyama Jinja, once a flourishing center of Shugendō, the mountain religion of J...
Culture Nunobashi Kanjoue Kerrie Hankinson When the mountain religion Shugendō flourished in this valley, on the middle day of Autumn Equinox, hundreds of women came to...
Culture Tateyama Museum of Toyama Kerrie Hankinson Oyama Jinja and the sites of Nunobashi at Ashikuraji are great places to visit. The Tateyama Museum is a good place to learn ...
Culture Zuiryuji Kerrie Hankinson Zuiryuji is a magnificent example of early Edo architecture. Modelled on Chinese design, building took 20 years. It reflects ...
Culture Oyama Jinja Iwakuraji Kerrie Hankinson Oyama Jinja is located on three separate locations in the hills and mountains of south-east Toyama prefecture. This article f...
Culture Ashikuraji Oyama Jinja Kerrie Hankinson Ashikuraji village, on the edge of the Tateyama caldera, is the site of the mid-level Oyama JInja. This beautiful shrine is s...
Culture Uozu's Buried Forest Museum Sheila Burt Inside Uozu's Buried Forest Museum, dedicated to the eerie hidden underworld of a forest buried in the Sea of Japan some 1,50...
Activities Toyama's Snow Wall Sheila Burt Toyama’s Yuki-no-Otani officially opens to the public in the spring, with snow walls approaching 20 meters in height.
Culture Namerikawa's Firefly Squid Sheila Burt Hotaruika are squid with a natural fluorescence that causes them to glow in the dark. Namerikawa City runs boat tours where v...
Activities Tateyama's Snow Wall Walk 2027 Christina Nunotani Toyama’s Yuki-no-Otani is open from around mid-April until early June. The walkway closed June 10th for 2012, but you can sti...
Culture The Tsuzawa Yotaka Andon Matsuri Meredith Lescoe A look into a little known, yet immensely entertaining, hikiyama festival in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
Beauty & Spa Spending Time on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Stefanus Husin The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is an incredible and scenic route through the Northern Japanese Alps.
