Toyama, Toyama

Toyama (Japanese富山 市, -shi) is a city and administrative headquarters of the Toyama Prefecture on Honshu the main island of Japan and is located on the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan at the Toyama Bay. Toyama is a university town since 1949.

In addition to engineering, the pharmaceutical industry and an oil refinery has economic significance. In a mine near the town of the Kamiokande experiment takes place, in which the lifetime of the proton to be determined.

In the Sea of ​​Japan before the Toyama Bay is the home of the luminous squid.

Attractions

  • Ruins of the castle Toyama (富 山城)

Traffic

Toyama airport

Train:

Transport:

  • Tram

Street:

  • Hokuriku Expressway
  • National Highway 8
  • National Road 41
  • National roads 359, 360, 415, 471, 472

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Yoshihisa Inoue ( b. 1947 ), prefectural governor
  • Jin'en Nagase ( b. 1943 ), politician
  • Yōko Nogiwa ( b. 1936 ), actress
  • Koichi Tanaka ( born 1959 ), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2002
  • Makoto Tateno, manga artist

Twinning

  • United States Durham ( North Carolina), since 1989
  • People's Republic of China Qinhuangdao, China, since 1981

Sports

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Imizu
  • Namerikawa
  • Tonami
  • Nanto
  • Hida
  • Takayama
Zelkova serrata Thistle Azalea Cities of Japan Sea of Japan Mechanical engineering Kamioka Observatory Exponential decay#Mean lifetime Watasenia scintillans Durham (North Carolina) Imizu, Toyama Namerikawa, Toyama Tonami, Toyama Nanto (Toyama) Hida, Gifu Takayama, Gifu Kurobe, Toyama Oyabe, Toyama Takaoka, Toyama
781809
de