The blue front of the Toyama Skate Center under a clear winter sky, with its sign over the entrance and snow banked beside the path.Photo: Google Maps listing · SourceThe empty ice of the Toyama Skate Center with the resurfacer parked at the far end, under a blue steel roof with hockey banners hanging from the trusses.Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
Skating costs ¥1,300 for adults (high school and over), ¥1,000 for elementary and junior high school pupils and ¥700 for younger children if you bring your own skates; hire skates add ¥400, ¥300 and ¥200, making ¥1,700, ¥1,300 and ¥900.
By bus from Toyama Station, take the bus bound for Sogo Undo Koen and get off at Kurose; the skate center is about an 8-minute walk of roughly 650 meters, by the foot of the Fuchu Ohashi bridge.