Toyama Prefecture

Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Toyama.

Toyama is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, and has the industrial advantage of cheap electricity from abundant hydroelectric resources. It also contains East Asia’s only glaciers outside Russia, which have been recognised as such only very recently.