Transportation Spots in Toyama Area

  • Roadside Station Come On Park Shinminato
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Imizushi Kaganomiya 296
    The Come On Park Shinminato roadside rest area has aquarium tanks where visitors can view fish and White Prawns from Toyama Bay. The local produce corner, where visitors can buy white prawns (which are a Shinminato specialty) and other marine products, and the Early Morning Market which is held on Saturdays and Sundays from April to December, are very popular. The restaurant serves a variety of white prawn cuisine. The Come On Park Shinminato is located around 15-minute drive from the Kosugi Interchange of the Hokuriku Expressway.

    国道8号線を石川県方面へ走行中に富山市を過ぎると直ぐにある道の駅です。 ドライブ中のトイレ休憩にも、昼食を食べるのにも便利なのですが、お土産品の品揃えが多くてつい買ってしまいます。

  • Roadside Station Marchen Oyabe
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    3.5
    23 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Oyabeshi Sakuramachi 1535-1
    This roadside station is west from Noetsu Expressway's Fukuoka Interchange on the Oyabe Bypass. The station features a food court full of items that can only be eaten there. Some of their notable offerings include local delicacies like their Oyabe white ramen, which utilizes local ingredients, as well as unique items like their carbonara-style soft-serve ice cream, which combines soft-cooked eggs with powdered cheese. The facility also offers a dog park where you can let your pup off the leash, as well as foot baths. The tourist rental bikes available at the station make it a convenient hub for sightseeing in the city.

    Nice roadside station (Michi no Eki), good for shopping and stop to relax. Plenty of local products from the area.

  • Roadside Station Wave Park Namerikawa
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    3.5
    23 Reviews
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    Toyama Namerikawa-shi Nakagawara 410

    ホタルイカミュージアムの隣というか併設の道の駅です。富山湾に面していて、有名なホタルイカや海洋深層水関係の品の販売や飲食が目立ちました。レストランは季節により営業時間がかなり変わるようなので注意した方がよさそうです。

  • Roadside Station Shogawa
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    3.5
    18 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Tonamishi Shougawamachishimeno 437
    This roadside station in Shogawamachi, Tonami City, Toyama Prefecture is located between Gokayama, Kanazawa, and Himi. Its shop offers a variety of products. These include locally-grown agricultural products such as vegetables grown with the spring waters from Shogawa Seiryu Onsen, Yuzumaru milk manju buns made with Shokawa yuzu citrus, Egoma Udon noodles that have wild sesame grown in Shogawa kneaded into them, and more. Its restaurant offers many different local flavors to enjoy. Their yogoshi-don rice bowls and yogoshi pizza made are both of which are made with yogoshi, a regional vegetable dish of Tonami. Their yuzu miso salad pizzas are made with Shogawa-grown yuzu citrus.

    庄川温泉郷へ日帰り入浴へ行った時に昼食を食べに寄りました。庄川はゆずの産地だそうで店舗販売でもゆずに関連した商品が多いようです。それならばとゆずこしょううどんを食べました。ゆずこしょうは元々九州の調味料で、九州ではそばよりうどんが食べられていることもあり、うどんによく合います。このレストランではよごし丼などよごし・・・・というメニューがあります。入口の説明によるとよごしとは茹でた野菜を細かく切って...

  • Himi Banya-gai Harbour Market
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    Toyama Pref. Himishi Kitaomachi 25-5
    Located in Himi City in Toyama Prefecture, famous for its Himi kanburi (winter yellowtail fish), Himi Banya-gai Harbour Market is a tourist facility which doubles as a roadside station. There are more than 30 establishments here ensuring more than enough for visitors, from shopping to food and hot spring baths. Many tourists come here to take advantage of the many things on offer such as the kaiten-zushi restaurant where guests can enjoy fish direct from Himi Port, gourmet food unique to the local area, fresh local fish, processed seafood products, and souvenirs. Be sure not to miss the spectacular Tateyama Mountains visible across the sea. Visitors to Himi Banya-gai Harbour Market can also enjoy the natural hot spring waters of Himi Onsen.
  • Roadside Station Manyo-no-sato Takaoka
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    Toyama Pref. Takaokashi Hachigashima 131-1
    Roadside Station Manyo-no-sato Takaoka has a wide selection of souvenirs from Toyama Prefecture, over 2,000 in fact, which are loved by locals as well as by visitors. Fresh vegetables and other local specialties are in abundance, and many interesting events are held here too.
  • Roadside Station Taira Gokayama Washi no Sato
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    Toyama Nanto-shi Higashi-nakae 215
    Gokayama Washi-no-sato (Traditional Paper-making Workshop) is the alternative name for Road Station Taira, a roadside rest area in Gokayama village, Toyama Prefecture. Gokayama Washi-no-sato features a “Washi Paper Craft Hall” that presents the history of traditional Japanese paper-making, which has been an important industry in Gokayama since ancient times, as well as a “Paper-making Experience Hall” where visitors can try making Gokayama-style paper for themselves inside a traditional Gasshozukuri-style farmhouse (experiential activities can be booked on the day of your visit). There is also a retail area selling local specialty products, a restaurant, etc., making this a great place to drop by while driving in the area.
  • Roadside Station Fukumitsu
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    Toyama Pref. Nantoshi Nakanogo 21
    "This roadside station a 10-minute drive from Oyabe Interchange Station. The building, styled in the image of a rich farmer's mansion, is beloved by the nickname ""Nanto Ippukuchaya."" The farmer's market Ippuku-ichi, which offers fresh local fruits and vegetables, is popular with both tourists and locals. The Restaurant Tanpopo, located in an earthen storehouse-style building, offers a range of dishes made with local ingredients, as well as nostalgic sweets. "
  • Roadside Station Unazuki (Unazuki Shokusaikan)
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    Toyama Pref. Kurobeshi Unadukimachioritate 687
    This roadside station operated by Unazuki Beer in Unazukimachi, Kurobe City, Toyama Prefecture features a beer hall, a shop, and a folk history museum. The beer hall, Unazuki Mugishukan, offers lunch and dinner buffets that can be enjoyed along with Unazuki Beer. The shop, Unazuki Saishokukan, offers a wide variety of Toyama souvenirs and products, including ring-shaped muffins made with Unazuki Beer, Kurobe Meisui Gyoza potstickers (which make a great Kurobe souvenir), Omokage, the famous sweet of Unazuki Onsen, and more.
  • Roadside Station Tonami
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    Toyama Pref. Tonamishi Miyazawachou 3-9
    This roadside station in Miyazawacho, Tonami City, Toyama Prefecture is a five-minute drive from JR Johana Line Tonami Station. Its restaurant, Tonami Sodachi, offers cuisine made with ingredients from Tonami and Toyama Prefecture, such as their Okado somen noodle set meal and their Tonamino onion curry set meal lunches. At dinner, the restaurant offers banquet-style dinners featuring dishes such as butamotsu-nabe (pork tripe hot pot) and shabu-shabu (hot pot) made with Toyama grown pork. The station's other facilities includes a tourist information center, Promenade Momiji, a full-service steak house, Tonamino no Sato, a farmer's market offering local vegetables and other products, and a museum shop featuring souvenirs related to the area's famous tulips.
  • Tateyama Alpenmura
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    Toyama Pref. Nakanikawaguntateyamamachi Higashinakanoshin 143-1
    This rest stop in the foothills of Tateyama is a 15-minute drive from? Hokuriku Expressway's Tateyama Interchange. The food offers a variety of characteristic Toyama dishes, such as their black chashu (roast pork) ramen, notable for its dark black broth, and their sauce katsudon (sauce-flavored fried pork cutlet on rice), a Hokuriku regional delicacy. One of the souvenir shop's flagship offerings is Maboroshi no Masuzushi, delicious trout sushi made with more than twice the normal amount of fatty trout.
  • Roadside Station Inami Kiborinosato Soyukan
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    Toyama Pref. Nantoshi Kitagawa 730
    This roadside station is a 15-minute drive from Tonami Interchange. The complex is comprised of a number of facilities, including Takumi no Kobo, a workshop where people can try their hand at Inami woodcarving, a local traditional handicraft, and Nanto Rakuichi, a souvenir shop with a focus on wooden products. Kitsutsuki Club, a Japanese-style restaurant, offers delicious handmade cuisine that capitalizes on the natural bounty on offer in Inami, the hometown of woodcarving.
  • Shomyo-daira Rest House
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    Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji Bunazaka Tono 11 Kokuyurin
    Shomyo falls is the highest in Japan, with a total drop of 350 meters that is so fierce is sends up clouds of mist. The rest station in the parking lot displays models and images related to Shomyo falls, and you can have soft-serve ice cream in the restaurant in the back of the rest station. It's certainly worth a visit when you come visit Shomyo falls to enjoy its changing ambience through the seasons.
  • Amahara
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    4.0
    44 Reviews
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    Toyama Takaoka-shi Ota 24-74

    駐車場は小さいが建物の両サイドと離れたとこにもある。 建物一階の案内所を入って左のエレベーターに乗り上の階に行く カフェにはエビとカニのパスタ、ますのフライバーガーなどあり、 海を目の前にして食事ができ、立山連峰や海岸線沿いもきれいに見える。 テーブルに時刻表が貼ってあるので 手動で窓を開けられる列車が海岸線沿いに目の前を走っているのが見える。

  • Toyama
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    Toyama Pref
  • Toyamaeki
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    Toyama Pref
  • Shin-Takaoka
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    Toyama Pref
  • Takaoka(Toyama)
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    Toyama Pref
  • Ainokura Yagasshochaya
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
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    Toyama Pref. Nantoshi Ainokura 710

    相倉合掌造り集落を散策し、車に乗る前に一服するためにお邪魔しました。とち餅入りのぜんざいを注文しました。とち餅を焼くので少し時間がかかるとことでした。ちょっと茶色い栃もちが素朴な味わいで、甘さも控え目で美味しく頂きました。

  • Unazukionsen
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    Toyama Pref

Toyama Areas

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Toyama is one of the three prefectures that house the Japanese Alps, with its southern and eastern borders comprising one long stretch of mountains, out of which the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is forged. While traditional crafts fill the northern coastal cities of Toyama and Takaoka, thatched roof houses offer unrivalled views against a backdrop of fantastic scenery at Gokayama in the mountainous area in the south of the prefecture.

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