Nyuzen Onsen Toyama

Nyuzen, on the eastern Toyama Bay coast in Toyama Prefecture, is celebrated as one of Japan's most scenic fishing ports for the extraordinary panorama it offers across the bay toward the Tateyama Alpine Route peaks — some of Japan's highest mountains at over 3,000 metres — rising dramatically above the coastal plain in a view that is considered one of the most visually spectacular in the entire country. Nyuzen Onsen Toyama draws on chloride-rich coastal thermal waters from the marine geological formations of the Toyama Bay coast, offering warming maritime baths in a community whose spectacular mountain-bay panorama and fresh hotaru ika firefly squid fishing tradition — the seasonal phenomenon of luminescent squid harvested by night from the Toyama Bay — create an extraordinary sensory destination. The firefly squid viewing cruises available in late April and May, the Kurobe River delta bird sanctuary, and the Nyuzen coast views of the Tateyama mountain peaks reflected in Toyama Bay create one of the most scenically dramatic thermal spa settings on the Sea of Japan coast.