Spring Takayama Festival
Counted among Japan's three most beautiful festivals, with ornate floats and karakuri puppet shows.
- Area
- Nagoya · Takayama
- When
- April 14–15
- Location
- Hie Shrine & southern old town
More places nearby
Autumn Takayama Festival
Sakurayama Hachimangu's autumn festival; at night, lantern-lit floats circle the old town.
Old town (Sanmachi Suji)
Takayama's old streets lined with Edo-period wooden merchant houses, sake breweries and Hida beef skewer stands.
Miyagawa Morning Market
A riverside morning market of vegetables, pickles and crafts.
Takayama Jinya
The only Edo-shogunate regional government office in Japan to survive intact.
Hida Folk Village
A folk village of some 30 relocated old Hida farmhouses, including gassho-zukuri homes.
Shin-Hotaka Ropeway
Ride a double-decker gondola to a 2,156 m observation deck facing the peaks of the Northern Alps.
Hida beef sushi & skewers
Lightly seared Hida beef on sushi rice or skewers, perfect while strolling the old town.
Takayama old-town shops
Sake breweries, Hida beef skewers and sarubobo doll shops along the old streets.