A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering 1989–2019: the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art and other cultural facilities, World Heritage status for Gokayama and National Treasure status for Zuiryūji, the Toyama Light Rail and municipal mergers, the Hokuriku Shinkansen reaching Kanazawa in 2015, flights from Komatsu and Toyama to Taipei, Mori Yoshirō, the Fukui floods, the Noto Peninsula earthquake, the Shika criticality accident, and people such as Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ, Fujita Yoshinaga, and Takita Yōjirō.