Imizu City

A ferry sailed as the port was cut open.

Koshinokata–Horioka ferry

Photo by ナイトキャビン (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Surveying

A mathematician who met Inō Tadatakasurveyed the three provinces of Kaga.

Ishiguro Nobuyoshi (石黒信由, 1760–1836) was born in Takagi village (高木村) in Imizu District. He applied wasan, traditional Japanese mathematics, to land reclamation and surveying, and on the orders of the Kaga domain surveyed Etchū, Kaga and Noto. In 1803 he met the surveyor Inō Tadataka and went on to improve his instruments. The Kaetsunō Sanshū Gunwake Ryaku Ezu (加越能三州郡分略絵図), surveyed and drawn over eight years from 1819, is accurate even when compared with modern maps. 6,390 of his papers and maps are an Important Cultural Property.

Met Inō Tadataka in 1803
Eight years from 1819
6,390 items, Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Tsukiyama

A god invited from the seais received on a temporary mountain.

At the autumn festival of Hōjōzu Hachiman Shrine (放生津八幡宮), on the evening of 30 September the spirit of a god invited from the sea is received on the tsukiyama (築山), a temporary altar built in the shrine grounds. On 2 October it is dressed with figures of the chief deity, called Onbasama (オンバサマ), the Four Heavenly Kings and guests, and opened to the public. Such rites are rare in Japan. Together with the festival floats, it became an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 2021 and was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2025.

30 September to 2 October
Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 2021
UNESCO, 2025

03 ／ Sailing ship

A ship that sailed about 50 times round the Earthspreads its 29 sails in port.

The Kaiwo Maru (海王丸) is a sail training ship launched in 1930. In 59 years she sailed 1.06 million nautical miles, about 50 times round the Earth, and trained 11,190 young seafarers. She has been on show at Toyama Shinko Port (富山新港) since 1990, and about ten times a year between April and October, volunteers and crew climb the masts to set all 29 sails in a full-sail display (総帆展帆).

Launched in 1930
1.06 million nautical miles
29 sails

Living here

Seaside and countryside within a 7 km radius.

about 90,000 people

The city was formed in 2005 by merging Shinminato City, Kosugi, Daimon and Ōshima towns and Shimo village, and describes itself as a compact area about 7 km in radius. Its gateway is Kosugi Station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway, 10 minutes from Toyama Station. In the Shinminato district, fishing boats line both banks of the Uchikawa river (内川). The city introduces homes through its vacant-house information bank.

People living here: 90,742people
Area: 109.44km²
Households: 33,812households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,417yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 48 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —26 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Imizu City in Japan36.731°N 137.076°E

Territory of Imizu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

16.4km

富山市, 高岡市, 砺波市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Imizu City isthis kind of town.

01Since 23 November 1967, the day work began on cutting the mouth of Toyama Shinko Port, dug out of the Hōjōzu lagoon (放生津潟), a prefectural ferry has linked Koshinokata (越ノ潟) and Horioka (堀岡)
02Ishiguro Nobuyoshi, a mathematician from Takagi village, met Inō Tadataka and spent eight years from 1819 making precise maps of Kaga, Etchū and Noto
03Hōjōzu Hachiman Shrine holds its tsukiyama rite, the sailing ship Kaiwo Maru (launched 1930) is on show, and the offshore submarine valley is a city natural monument as the white-shrimp sea (シロエビ群遊海面)

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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