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.