Toyama has developed as one of the main capital cities along the coastal region of the Japan Sea. The city area of 1,242 km2 with about 420,000 residents accounts for approximately 30% of the prefectural land. However, the prefectural capital experienced both a shrinking population, having reached a peak in 2010, and also aging, with a high proportion of elderly residents estimated to reach about 30% by 2020 (Figure 1 and 2). Due to the shrinking and aging population trends within its large municipal boundary, the city had the lowest urban density among all prefectural capitals in Japan. In response to increased social concern over these demographic and urban declining issues, the city adopted a strategy to tarnsform itself to a transit-oriented, compact township by reinvesting in public transit systems and consolidating a wide range of city functions along the modernized transit corridors.