Tateyama Town

A waterfall that drops 350 m in 4 steps.

Shōmyō Falls

Photo by kahusi (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Nunobashi Kanjōe

Women barred from the mountaincrossed a cloth bridge, blindfolded.

In the Edo period, when women were forbidden to climb Mount Tate, the Nunobashi Kanjōe (布橋灌頂会) was held at Ashikuraji (芦峅寺) for them. Women in white robes, blindfolded, cross the Nunobashi bridge laid with white cloth, in a rite of rebirth. It died out in the Meiji era and was revived in 1996 after about 130 years. It is now held once every three years; in 2026 it takes place on 27 September.

Revived in 1996 after about 130 years
Once every three years
27 September 2026

02 ／ Tateyama Murodō

At 2,450 m standsa mountain hut built in 1726.

On the Murodō plateau stands the Murodō (立山室堂), where pilgrims to Mount Tate stayed and worshipped the peak from afar. With support from the Maeda family of the Kaga domain, the north building went up in 1726 and the south building in 1771. Used as a mountain hut from the Meiji era on, it was dismantled and restored in 1992–94 and is now open to the public. It became an Important Cultural Property in 1995.

Altitude 2,450 m
North building 1726, south building 1771
Important Cultural Property, 1995

03 ／ Glaciers

Glaciers, thought not to exist in Japan,lay on the east face of the Tateyama range.

Japan was long thought to have no glaciers today. From 2009 the Tateyama Caldera Sabo Museum of Toyama Prefecture surveyed the Gozenzawa (御前沢) snowfield on the east face of Mount Oyama and the Sannomado (三ノ窓) and Komado (小窓) snowfields on the east face of Mount Tsurugi, and found ice more than 30 m thick on the move. In April 2012 the three were recognized as Japan's first existing glaciers.

April 2012: Japan's first existing glaciers
Ice over 30 m thick
Gozenzawa, Sannomado, Komado

Living here

Town hall, hospital and library within 1 km of the station.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no Hokuriku Shinkansen station in town; the Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line runs through Gohyakkoku Station up to Tateyama Station. Within 1 km of Gohyakkoku Station, the town centre, are the town hall, police, fire station, hospital, post office and library. Toyama Station and Toyama Airport are about 20 minutes by car. Rice in school lunches is 100% Koshihikari grown in town.

People living here: 24,792people
Area: 307.29km²
Households: 9,047households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,474yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 12 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Tateyama Town in Japan36.664°N 137.314°E

Territory of Tateyama Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

20.6km

Toyama Prefecture: 富山市, 上市町, 黒部市, 舟橋村
Nagano Prefecture: 大町市

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

Tateyama Town isthis kind of town.

01On the Shōmyō River, the Shōmyō Falls (称名滝), a national Place of Scenic Beauty, drop about 350 m in four steps; the Toyama side of the Alpine Route, up to Kurobe Dam, lies within the town
02At Ashikuraji, the Nunobashi Kanjōe, a rite for women who were barred from climbing Mount Tate, is held once every three years
03The Tateyama Murodō of 1726 stands at 2,450 m, and on the east face of the Tateyama range Japan's first existing glaciers were recognized in 2012

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tateyama Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗