Tonami Plain - Tonami Heiya

Japanese: 砺波平野 - となみへいや

Western Toyama Prefecture, an alluvial fan-shaped sedimentary plain of the Shogawa and Oyabegawa rivers. It is part of the Toyama Plain. A network of irrigation channels developed, rice fields were opened up, and it was the grain-producing region of the Kaga domain. The landscape of scattered villages is famous throughout the country, with farmhouses surrounded by groves of cedar, zelkova, bamboo, and other trees, known as kainyo, spaced out at intervals of 100 to 200 meters. In addition to rice cultivation, tulip bulb cultivation has been popular as a secondary crop since the Taisho period, mainly in the Tonami area. The center of agriculture is Tonami city.

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Japanese:

富山県西部，庄川，小矢部川の扇状地性の堆積平野。富山平野の一部をなす。網の目状の用水路が発達，水田が開け，加賀藩の穀倉地帯であった。散村の景観は全国的に有名で，スギ，ケヤキ，タケなどの垣入 (かいにょ) と呼ばれる屋敷森に囲まれた農家が 100～200mの間隔で分布している。農業は米作のほか裏作として大正期から砺波市域を中心にチューリップの球根栽培が盛んである。中心は砺波市。

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