History
Etchū-Sangō Station opened on 15 August 1931 on what is today the Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line, in the Mizuhashi-Kaihatsu district of Toyama City. Toyama, the prefectural capital and most populous city of Toyama Prefecture, is a designated core city; the present Toyama was formed by the new-merger of the former Toyama City with the towns of Ōsawano, Ōyama, Yatsuo and Fuchū and the villages of Yamada and Hosoiri on 1 April 2005. The Toyama article notes that the merger gave the new city the second-largest land area among Japan's prefectural-capital cities (1,241.70 km², about 29.23% of the prefecture), with around 60 % of the territory under forest.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Toyama article highlights that the present city encompasses very different historical centres: the castle-town of Toyama Castle famed as the home of the "Etchū Toyama medicine peddlers" (and sometimes called "the medicine capital"), the temple town that grew around the medieval Jōdo-Shinshū temple of Monmyō-ji, and the post town used by pilgrims of Tateyama mountain worship.