WALK TOYAMA -meguri

Fugan Kansui Canal Park is a beautiful waterfront park where the citizens and tourists can leisurely take a rest or walk. However, there had been a long way before Toyama City accomplished the construction.

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (nicknamed TAD) is a beautiful museum standing beside Fugan Canal Park. TAD contains a concept that it connects contemporary art pieces (such as Picasso and Chagall) and design works including posters and chairs.

Toyama Castle Ruin Park is a place where Toyama castle had existed since Middle Age. Unfortunately, it was abandoned due to the Meiji government’s order to abolish castles. Nothing remains other than the replica of a main tower. The current Toyama Castle was constructed as a commemorative building of the Toyama Industrial Exposition in 1954 […]

Toyama’s glass industry stems from the medicine container manufacturing which started in the early Meiji Period. Before the WW2, there were as many as 10 glass factories with melting furnaces around Toyama Station. The museum was established by Toyama city in 2015 and is regarded as the culmination of Toyama’s “Glass Town Development” scheme. The […]

Ikedaya Yasubei Shoten is a long-established pharmacy in Toyama, which was founded in 1939 and has the oldest wooden architecture in the city. At the shop, you will learn how magnificient Toyama’s pharmaceutical business was and try pill manufacturing experience for free. Although Western medicine is well known worldwide, the effects of Japanese and Chinese […]

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