Only gone thru there once, can't say that I remember. May be you meant this:

"Tokuyama city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It faces Tokuyama Bay of the Inland Sea. A castle town during the early Tokugawa period (1603–1867), it became a station on the Sanyo Line (railway) in 1897. The establishment in Tokuyama of a naval coaling station in 1904 was followed by the city's rapid industrial growth. Tokuyama produces petroleum, chemical products, and..." --Encyclopædia Britannica