My Toyama Experience(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
When I told them of how water was used in Toyama- where they clear the roads in winter by washing snow off via built-in sprinkler system, they could hardly believe it.
As I became accustomed to life in Toyama, I soon was able to see that its main attraction was the vast natural beauty.
Toyama has a surprising variety of ethnic food restaurants, although the dishes are prepared to appeal to the Japanese pallet.
Toyama Prefecture(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan-sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity.
On November 1, 2004, the town of Shogawa from Higashitonami District and the old city of Tonami merged to form the city of Tonami.
On April 1, 2005, the towns of Osawano and Oyama from Kaminiikawa District and the towns and villages of Fuchu, Hosoiri, Yamada and Yatsuo (all from Nei District) merged with the old city of Toyama to form the new city of Toyama.
Toyama has a beautiful natural landscape from its mountainous viewing route, the 3,000 meter Japanese North Alps, to the thick forests, to the waterfalls, to the beautiful stretches of coastline, where mirages can be seen at Toyama Bay.
Toyama is also known for its pure water.
The Toyama plain is watered by fresh water run-off from the North Alps.
This park is located in Yatsuo, an area with a long tradition and rich culture symbolized by Ecchu Owara Kaze-no-bon Festival.
The total area is 194 hectares (for factories 102 hectares) and its location is very convenient for people to go to Toyama Airport and the Toyama I.C. Valuing the convenient location, twenty nine companies have already started their operations here.
Toyama city municipal office Yatsuo branch construction division agriculture,forestry,commerce and industry division
Special Feature(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From September 1 to 3 each year, tourists come from all over Japan to Yatsuo, a small town nestled at the foot of the mountains in Nei County, Toyama Prefecture.
Each step, each movement down to the fingertips, is clearly and precisely defined, so there's a lot to learn during the year before the young people are ready for the festival.
In Yatsuo, the Kaze-no-Bon dance is the culmination of an entire year's effort.
The festival of Owara Wind Bon Dance is held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of September each year, regardless of the days of the week, in YatsuoTown in Toyama Prefecture, 250km north-west of Tokyo.
YatsuoTown has been expanded by annexation to the population of 25 thousands now.
Like most communities in Japan, those in YatsuoTown see decreasing population of youngsters as well and can not but admit youngsters from communities in the Town other than the 11 oldest ones.
Yatsuo Hikiyama Exhibition(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yatsuo Hikiyama Exhibition displays float ("hikiyama"), a tangible ethnocultural asset designated by Toyama Prefecture.
Also, an exhibition room modeled on Kuranami Street features many fine works of Hayashi Akiji, a talented haiku poet and a woodblock artist who loved his hometown Yatsuo and printed the heart and scenery of the Etchu Owara.
Displays floats which use in Etchu Yatsuo Hikiyama Festival on May 3 of every year, and it shows the prosperity and spirit of the people in YatsuoTown.
Persimmon acts as a natural bug repellent and reduces the absorbency of the sheet.
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Sekishu Washi has a long history spanning 1300 years, and was designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1969.The techniques and methods of making this type of paper have been completely preserved by craftspeople in Misumi Town.
We offer six different sets of 10 beautiful hand-dyed envelopes each made of handsifted paper-mulberry washi paper from Etchu Yatsuo, Toyama Prefecture at a price per envelope of 400 yen for celebratory envelopes and 300 yen for condolence envelopes (including tax and shipping in Japan).
Please note that the inner envelopes for the celebratory and condolence envelopes are slightly different.
Some designs may be difficult to see clearly in the display such as the condolence envelopes that are drawn in thin ink as well as C-5 (white lilies), D-9 (white chrysanthemums), and D-10 (lotus pond), which use a fine white pigment to draw the white flowers in the designs.
Yatsuotown, Toyama Prefecture, Japan in the season of late summer around end of August until beginning of September (20th of August until 3rd of September....
over a Buddhism temple, called 'Myoumon-ji' temple in Yatsuotown at the time of pre-festival held in Suwa-machi and Kami-shin machi on 26th of August 2006.
Kaze-no-Bon held in Yatsuo-machi, Toyama prefecture in the year 2007.
