Nishi-Uozu

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Nishi-Uozu Station opened on 5 June 1936 as a station of Toyama Denki Tetsudō, on the same day the Hayatsuki–Dentetsu-Uozu section opened (the line became the Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line in the 1943 wartime consolidation). The station is in the Sumiyoshi district of Uozu in eastern Toyama Prefecture, on Toyama Bay. Uozu received city status in 1952, and the city is famous for its mirages (shinkirō), for hotaruika (firefly squid) and for the Uozu Maibotsu-rin — a submerged ancient cedar forest off the coast that is designated a Special Natural Monument of Japan.

The 1918 rice riots (kome-sōdō) began in Uozu on 23 July, when townswomen at the port — alarmed at rice being shipped out of port for Hokkaidō at a time of soaring prices — petitioned for the loading to be stopped and the rice sold locally; the unrest spread nationwide, ultimately contributing to the fall of the Terauchi cabinet.