Nei

Nei lies between the Toyama plain and the mountains of Etchū. The market town of Yatsuo grew near the foothills, exchanging goods from the mountains and the surrounding countryside. It received permission to establish a town from the Kaga domain in 1636. Merchants prospered through the production and sale of silkworm eggs, and later paper wholesalers supplied bags for the medicines sold by traveling merchants of Etchū.