Toyama Prefecture

Chubu region · Prefecture

A prefecture of great differences in height, from the 3,000 m-class Tateyama Range down to deep Toyama Bay. It is famous for the yellowtail, firefly squid and white shrimp of Toyama Bay, called a "natural fish tank," and for the tradition of the "Toyama medicine peddlers."

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Seafood of Toyama Bay
Gokayama (World Cultural Heritage)
Traditional medicine trade

Key facts

Prefectural capital: Toyama City
Municipalities: 15 (10 cities, 4 towns, 1 village)
Population: 982,147 37th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −5.1% 15th in Japanfrom 1,034,814 in 2020
Area: 4,248 km² 33rd in Japan
Population density: 231 people/km² 25th in Japan

Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 47 prefectures, ordered by this site from these values.

Places to know

Tateyama Town A mountain route to the Yuki-no-Otani snow walls and Kurobe Dam.
Nanto City The gassho-style (steep thatched-roof) villages of Gokayama.
Himi City A fishing port known for landings of winter yellowtail (kanburi).

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Chosen automatically, most popular first, from landmarks and cultural properties registered in Wikidata (we have not checked whether each is open). Names and descriptions: Wikidata (CC0); photos: Wikimedia Commons (photographer and license under each photo).

National parks in Toyama Prefecture

Chubusangaku National ParkTotal park area 1,743 km²Also in Niigata, Nagano, Gifu
Hakusan National ParkTotal park area 499 km²Also in Ishikawa, Fukui, Gifu

Chosen by overlaying the park boundaries (Ministry of the Environment, Biodiversity Center of Japan, "National Park Areas" GIS data, updated April 28, 2025, combined and simplified by NIPPON ATLAS) with municipal boundaries (National Land Numerical Information, January 2021), keeping overlaps of about 0.5 km² or more (approximate). Areas are the land areas from the Ministry of the Environment, "Overview of National Parks" (April 10, 2026). All national parks

Municipalities in Toyama Prefecture (15)

Municipality	Population	5-year change	Area
Toyama City	399,197	−3.6%	1,242 km²
Takaoka City	158,431	−4.8%	210 km²
Uozu City	37,456	−7.6%	201 km²
Himi City	39,087	−11.1%	231 km²
Namerikawa City	31,317	−3.2%	54.62 km²
Kurobe City	37,599	−5.1%	426 km²
Tonami City	45,783	−4.9%	127 km²
Oyabe City	26,653	−8.0%	134 km²
Nanto City	43,916	−8.4%	669 km²
Imizu City	87,615	−3.4%	109 km²
Funahashi Village	3,274	+4.5%	3.47 km²
Kamiichi Town	17,697	−8.5%	237 km²
Tateyama Town	23,215	−6.4%	307 km²
Nyuzen Town	21,340	−10.5%	71.25 km²
Asahi Town	9,567	−13.7%	226 km²

Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population in 2025; change compared with 2020). Area: GSI (2025). Designated cities are shown as one city (wards combined). "Temperature now" is the latest JMA AMeDAS observation (preliminary) at the nearest station in the same prefecture, loaded and shown unchanged when you open the page.

Figures come from official Japanese statistics (such as the 2025 Census by the Statistics Bureau of Japan), with the source and year shown next to each one. Photos are freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons; the photographer and license are shown under each photo.

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