A pre-trip note for Kanazawa and Toyama covering the Reiwa era since 2019: through tram service across Toyama Station, the 2024 extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Tsuruga and the Hapi-Line Fukui, the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and the Oku-Noto floods, messages of sympathy between Hokuriku and Taiwan after earthquakes, the return of Toyama–Taipei flights, the full reopening of the Kurobe Gorge Railway, and manga and anime from Nagai Go, Ima Ichiko, Fujiko Fujio Ⓐ, and 2.43.

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.