Toyama City’s resident register, as of the end of July 2026, held 400,027 people in 189,541 households, and inside those totals 10,932 foreign residents in 7,407 households. Divide each pair and the city averages 2.11 people to a household while its foreign-resident households average 1.48. Both divisions are ours; the four counts are the city’s.
The register holds a second asymmetry in the same printed row: women outnumber men across the city by 8,975, yet among foreign residents men outnumber women by 420. What follows works through the register, the city’s own profile of its territory, the weather agency’s normals and the tram operator’s own fare pages, with the figures attached throughout.
The register counts 8,975 more women, and 420 more foreign men
Toyama publishes the register monthly, with foreign residents shown in brackets inside each total rather than as a separate series. The end-of-July 2026 table reads as follows.
| Measure (end of July 2026) | Total | Of which foreign residents |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 400,027 | 10,932 |
| Men | 195,526 | 5,676 |
| Women | 204,501 | 5,256 |
| Households | 189,541 | 7,407 |
The two sex columns add correctly in both cases: 195,526 and 204,501 give 400,027, and 5,676 and 5,256 give 10,932. Those additions are ours and they match the printed totals. Subtracting within each line gives the two imbalances: 8,975 more women than men city-wide, and 420 more men than women among foreign residents. The direction reverses between the two populations, and the page carries no comment on why.
Foreign residents are 2.7 per cent of the registered population and occupy 3.9 per cent of the registered households, both percentages ours. The second figure being the larger of the two is what produces the household-size gap below.
Foreign-resident households average 1.48 people against the city’s 2.11
Dividing 400,027 people by 189,541 households gives 2.11 people to a household across Toyama. Dividing 10,932 foreign residents by 7,407 foreign-resident households gives 1.48. The difference is 0.63 people a household, and all three figures are our arithmetic on the city’s counts.
One qualification belongs with that division. The note under the city’s table says only that the bracketed figures are the foreign residents inside each printed total, and the bracket on the household column is itself given in households. Whether those 7,407 are households made up of foreign residents alone or households holding at least one is printed nowhere: not under the table, and not on the city’s separate page of foreign-resident population and households, whose spreadsheet repeats the same 7,407 for the end of July 2026 under a heading that reads only foreign-resident households and persons. The division describes the register’s shape rather than how anyone lives.
The city runs from Toyama Bay to 3,000-metre mountains over 1,241.71 square kilometres
Toyama City covers 1,241.71 square kilometres by the area survey of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, which the city cites directly. Its own profile describes a territory reaching from Toyama Bay to peaks of the 3,000-metre class, crossed by rivers including the Jinzu and the Joganji.
The present city is recent. The old Toyama City became a core city in 1996. In April 2005 seven municipalities merged to form the current one: Toyama City, Osawano Town, Oyama Town, Yatsuo Town, Fuchu Town, Yamada Village and Hosoiri Village. Counting those names gives one city, four towns and two villages, and the sorting is ours while the seven names are the city’s. The profile goes on to describe Toyama as a prefectural capital of 410,000 people, a round figure the city uses alongside the exact ones.
| Toyama City, published figures | Value |
|---|---|
| Area | 1,241.71 square kilometres |
| Population, 2020 census, final | 413,938 |
| Households, 2020 census, final | 171,917 |
| Population, resident register, end of July 2026 | 400,027 |
| Households, resident register, end of July 2026 | 189,541 |
| Municipalities merged in April 2005 | 7 |
The census and the register are different instruments, taken six years apart and counting on different definitions, so neither population subtracts usefully from the other and no trend runs between them. The one movement the table does show on a single basis is in the household lines: the census counted 171,917 households and the register listed 189,541 at the end of July 2026.
The annual precipitation normal is 2,374.2 mm, and the twelve months add to it exactly
The Japan Meteorological Agency’s normals for the Toyama station print the statistics period 1991 to 2020 and a record length of 30 years above every column, but three of those columns, mean cloud amount, fog days and thunder days, carry the @ symbol on every value, which the legend defines as a reference value computed from an ended or truncated run of statistics. None of the columns quoted below carries it. The annual precipitation normal is 2,374.2 mm, and the twelve printed monthly values add to 2,374.2 exactly, an addition of ours which leaves no remainder.
The wettest month is December at 281.6 mm, with January second at 259.0 and July third at 245.6. The driest is May at 122.8 mm. The heaviest month of a Toyama year is a winter month and so is the second heaviest, which is the reason a December visit needs the same rain plan as a June one.
| Normal (Toyama station, 1991 to 2020) | Value |
|---|---|
| Annual mean temperature | 14.5 degrees Celsius |
| January mean / daily maximum / daily minimum | 3.0 / 6.3 / 0.2 |
| August mean / daily maximum / daily minimum | 26.9 / 31.4 / 23.2 |
| Annual precipitation | 2,374.2 mm |
| Wettest month | December, 281.6 mm |
| Driest month | May, 122.8 mm |
| Annual sunshine | 1,647.2 hours |
| January sunshine | 68.1 hours |
| Annual mean relative humidity | 76 per cent |
| Annual mean wind speed | 2.9 m/s |
January’s 68.1 hours of sunshine against August’s 201.4 is the same winter pattern in a different column, and the annual total of 1,647.2 hours sits between the two. The August daily minimum normal of 23.2 degrees is the figure to read for sleeping weather rather than the daily maximum of 31.4.
The snow normals put 40 cm under January and 39 cm under February
Toyama station records an annual snowfall total of 253 cm, a deepest-snow normal of 51 cm for the year, and snow on 71.8 days. By month the season is shorter than those annual figures suggest, running from December to March with a single centimetre recorded in April.
| Month | Snowfall, totalled (cm) | Greatest daily snowfall (cm) | Deepest snow (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| November | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| December | 49 | 18 | 23 |
| January | 104 | 26 | 40 |
| February | 84 | 24 | 39 |
| March | 17 | 8 | 10 |
| April | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Year | 253 | 34 | 51 |
January carries both the larger snowfall total, 104 cm against February’s 84, and the deeper snow, 40 cm against 39. The two months are 20 cm apart on what falls and 1 cm apart on what lies, and both subtractions are ours. Adding the six monthly snowfall figures gives 255 cm against the printed annual 253 cm, a two-centimetre gap that sits in the printed normals themselves rather than in the addition.
One limit on all of this: the station is on the coastal plain, and the city’s own profile puts part of its territory among 3,000-metre peaks. These normals describe the plain. For a neighbouring city’s published figures on a different subject, our piece on Kanazawa’s designated teahouse districts covers the city across the prefecture border.
The city tram charges a flat 240 yen and gives no change
Toyama Chiho Railway’s own instructions for riding the city tram with cash state the fare as 240 yen for an adult and 120 yen for a child, paid into the fare slot at the front of the vehicle. The page is explicit that no change is given, so the exact amount matters before boarding.
For passengers who arrive without coins, the operator’s rule on changing money is equally specific. The settlement machines at the front and rear of the car will change 1,000-yen notes and coins, and will not change 5,000-yen or 10,000-yen notes. The operator also asks that money be changed while the tram is stopped rather than moving. Its separate city-tram page prints a longer exclusion, naming 10,000-yen, 5,000-yen and 2,000-yen notes as unusable, without saying whether that applies to the change machines or to the fare box, so the operator’s own two pages do not list the same set. On either list a traveller carrying only a 10,000-yen note has no way to produce the 240 yen from the machine on board.
The day pass costs 750 yen, and the child version is not half of it
The same operator sells a one-day free ticket covering the city trams, the railway section between Dentetsu-Toyama Station and Minami-Toyama Station, and buses within the 330-yen zone from the front of Toyama Station. It costs 750 yen for an adult and 380 yen for a child.
The arithmetic that follows from the two fare pages read together is all ours. At 240 yen a ride, the adult day pass equals 3.125 single journeys, so it starts to repay itself on the fourth boarding of the day. And while the single fares are exactly half for a child, 120 against 240, the day pass is not: 380 yen is 5 yen more than half of 750. Two adults and two children pay 2,260 yen for day passes, against 720 yen for one set of single rides and 1,440 yen for a return trip.
| Toyama Chiho Railway, city tram and bus | Adult | Child |
|---|---|---|
| Single tram ride, cash | 240 yen | 120 yen |
| One-day free ticket | 750 yen | 380 yen |
| Single rides the day pass equals (our division) | 3.125 | 3.17 |
The pass has limits printed with it. It excludes express coaches, seasonal and extra services and community buses such as the Maidohaya bus, covering ordinary route services only. It is sold at the Chitetsu ticket centre and its Nishicho branch, at Dentetsu-Toyama, Inarimachi and Minami-Toyama stations, at the bus information office in front of Toyama Station and at the Toyama motor depot. The operator adds that it is sold on board the city trams as well, which is the one point where a visitor who has already boarded can still buy it, and that the same ticket can be bought as a digital one in the my route, Norikae Annai and tabiwa by WESTER apps.
Sources Checked
Toyama City — outline and history of the city
Confirmed the area of 1,241.71 square kilometres attributed to the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan’s national area survey; the 2020 census final figures of 413,938 people and 171,917 households; the description of a territory running from Toyama Bay to 3,000-metre-class mountains with the Jinzu and Joganji among its rivers; the old city’s move to core-city status in 1996; the April 2005 merger of the seven municipalities Toyama City, Osawano Town, Oyama Town, Yatsuo Town, Fuchu Town, Yamada Village and Hosoiri Village; and the description of Toyama as a prefectural capital of 410,000 people.
https://www.city.toyama.lg.jp/shisei/profile/1008142.html
Toyama City — population of Toyama City at the end of July 2026
Confirmed the resident-register figures of 400,027 people with 10,932 foreign residents, 195,526 men with 5,676 foreign, 204,501 women with 5,256 foreign, and 189,541 households with 7,407 foreign, together with the city’s note that the bracketed figures are the foreign residents within each total.
https://www.city.toyama.lg.jp/shisei/1001818/1010951/1001823/1018671/1019429.html
Toyama City — foreign residents, population and households
Confirmed that the city keeps a separate monthly series of foreign-resident households and persons running from the end of July 2012, that its spreadsheet prints 7,407 households and 10,932 people for the end of July 2026, and that neither the page nor the spreadsheet defines that household count beyond a heading reading foreign-resident households and persons.
https://www.city.toyama.lg.jp/shisei/1001818/1010951/1002396.html
Japan Meteorological Agency — climate normals for Toyama (station 47607)
Confirmed that the columns used above carry the 1991 to 2020 period with thirty years of data, and the values for annual mean temperature 14.5, January 3.0 with maximum 6.3 and minimum 0.2, August 26.9 with maximum 31.4 and minimum 23.2; monthly precipitation of 259.0, 171.7, 164.6, 134.5, 122.8, 172.6, 245.6, 207.0, 218.1, 171.9, 224.8 and 281.6 mm against an annual 2,374.2 mm; sunshine of 68.1 hours in January and 201.4 in August against an annual 1,647.2; annual mean humidity 76 per cent and annual mean wind 2.9 m/s; and snowfall totals of 0, 49, 104, 84, 17 and 1 cm from November to April with greatest daily totals of 0, 18, 26, 24, 8 and 0 cm and deepest snow of 0, 23, 40, 39, 10 and 0 cm, against annual values of 253 cm, 34 cm and 51 cm and 71.8 days with snow; and that the mean cloud amount, fog days and thunder days columns carry the @ reference-value symbol throughout while the columns quoted above do not.
https://www.data.jma.go.jp/stats/etrn/view/nml_sfc_ym.php?prec_no=55&block_no=47607
Toyama Chiho Railway — how to ride the city tram, cash and free-ticket edition
Confirmed the adult fare of 240 yen and child fare of 120 yen paid into the slot at the front of the vehicle, that no change is given, that the settlement machines at the front and rear change 1,000-yen notes and coins but not 5,000-yen or 10,000-yen notes, and the operator’s request that money be changed while the tram is stopped.
https://www.chitetsu.co.jp/?page_id=25341
Toyama Chiho Railway — city tram section, route map and fare table
Confirmed the fare table printing 240 yen for an adult and 120 yen for a child for the city tram, that the fare is paid on alighting into the fare box at the front of the vehicle, that no change comes out of it, and the note on that page that 10,000-yen, 5,000-yen and 2,000-yen notes cannot be used, without that note saying whether it applies to the change machines or to the fare box.
https://www.chitetsu.co.jp/english/jp/trams/
Toyama Chiho Railway — one-day free ticket for the city tram and buses
Confirmed the adult price of 750 yen and child price of 380 yen; that it covers the city trams, the railway between Dentetsu-Toyama Station and Minami-Toyama Station and buses within the 330-yen zone from the front of Toyama Station; that express, seasonal, extra and community buses such as the Maidohaya bus are excluded; and that its list of sales points names the Chitetsu ticket centre, the Nishicho ticket centre, Dentetsu-Toyama, Inarimachi and Minami-Toyama stations, the bus information office in front of Toyama Station and the Toyama motor depot, with sale on board the city trams added to that list and digital sale through the my route, Norikae Annai and tabiwa by WESTER apps.
https://www.chitetsu.co.jp/?p=1002
Last updated: October 2026
