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Takayama
Takayama's oldest temple, an 8th-century provincial foundation with a three-story pagoda and a 1,200-year-old ginkgo tree.
The head shrine of Takayama's spectacular Autumn Festival, guardian of the northern old town and neighbor to the float museum.
Guardian shrine of southern Takayama and home of the Spring Sanno Festival, set among towering ancient cedars below Shiroyama.
A rescued 1504 main hall — one of Japan's oldest Jodo Shinshu buildings — moved beam by beam from a valley before a dam flooded it.
A Higashiyama Zen temple famous for its towering belfry gate salvaged from Takayama Castle and a venerable weeping cherry.
A Rinzai Zen temple of the Kanamori lords, tied to the great swordsman-monk Yamaoka Tesshu, deep in the Higashiyama hills.
A spacious, atmospheric temple midway along the Higashiyama Walking Course, wrapped in cedars on Takayama's eastern hills.
A forest shrine high on the Higashiyama course, with ancient trees, mossy steps, and a quiet view over old Takayama.
Takayama's largest daily morning market, a 350m ribbon of farm stalls and food along the Miyagawa River.
Takayama's more traditional morning market, held daily on the square in front of the historic Takayama Jinya.
A historic Sanmachi sake brewery with a modern tasting bar, sparkling sake and on-site Hida beef.
Founded in 1623, one of Takayama's oldest breweries, home of the refined Kusudama label.
A cozy, antique-filled diner near the old town famous for its juicy Hida beef burgers.
An atmospheric farmhouse-style restaurant serving Hida home cooking, hoba miso and Hida beef around a sunken hearth.
Long-established Sanmachi brewery producing the Sansha label, with tastings in a classic Hida merchant house.
The famous old-town stand serving melt-in-the-mouth Hida beef nigiri sushi on an edible cracker plate.
Takayama's oldest soba restaurant, hand-making buckwheat noodles by a century-old recipe since 1898.
An open-air museum of relocated thatched farmhouses recreating a traditional Hida mountain village.
A free town museum set in Edo-era merchant warehouses, covering Takayama's history and festival culture.
Home to the mechanical karakuri marionettes of the Takayama Festival and hundreds of lion-dance masks.
A grand 1879 merchant house and Important Cultural Property showcasing master Hida carpentry.
An elegant sake-brewer's mansion prized as a landmark of refined Japanese wooden architecture.
A dramatic underground museum of full-scale festival floats and giant taiko drums south of the city.
A refined museum of European Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass and decorative arts on a hill above town.
