Takayama Trip Overview
Experience the highlights of Takayama on our private, award-winning, one day tour. Our professional guide will take you on a memorable tour of Takayama’s unforgettable sights. We have been awarded the renowned tripadvisor certificate of excellence in Takayama. Your personal guide will take you to the highlights of Takayama and customize the tour to your desire. Professional guides will tailor the tour to your needs and ensure you are satisfied. Collection and drop off at your hotel.
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Takayama, Japan
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Experience the highlights of Takayama on our private, award-winning, one day tour. Our professional guide will take you on a memorable tour of Takayama’s unforgettable sights. We have been awarded the renowned tripadvisor certificate of excellence in Takayama. Your personal guide will take you to the highlights of Takayama and customize the tour to your desire. Professional guides will tailor the tour to your needs and ensure you are satisfied. Collection and drop off at your hotel.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Sanmachi Suji, Takayama Gifu Prefecture
The small streets of Sanmachi Suji give Takayama an authentic Edo period feel. This quaint historical district is the ideal place to take a stroll, enjoy the atmosphere and sample some local sake.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Yoshijima Heritage House, 1-51 Oshimmachi, Takayama 506-0851 Gifu Prefecture
Takayama was famous for its skilled carpenters during the Edo period and this building is a great example of such carpentry. Built in Meiji 41 (1908). The building has been a Sake brewery for over a century, a huge sakabayashi (sign of a shop dealing in sake, made of Japanese ceder leaves) is hung under the eaves. The beauty of the carpentry is shown in the wooden pillars and panel doors, as well as in the staircase centered on the main pillar of the house and composed of beams (horizontal pillars) and posts (pillars perpendicular to the beams), with sunlight from the top window entering the house, and in the wooden pillars and panel doors.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, 178 Sakura-machi, Takayama 506-0858 Gifu Prefecture
Experience the huge festival floats, paraded through the streets during the famous Takayama festival
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine, 178 Sakuramachi, Takayama 506-0858 Gifu Prefecture
The Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that is dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area. According to tradition, the origins of the Shrine date back to the reign of the Emperor Nintoku, when Prince Naniwa-neko Takefurukuma no Mikoto, who had come to the area to subjugate an evil monster, prayed for victory at this site. The Shrine is closely associated with the Autumn Festival that is one of the two Takayama Matsuri (Takayama Festivals), the other being the Spring Festival that is associated with the Hie Shrine; the Takayama Matsuri has been designated as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Some of the “Yatai” (decorated floats) used in the Takayama Matsuri procession are on display in the Takayama Festival Floats
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Higashiyama Walking Course, Atagomachi, Takayama Gifu Prefecture
The Higashiyama Walking Course (東山遊歩道, Higashiyama Yūhodō) is a pleasant walking route through Takayama’s temple town (Teramachi), the city’s rural “suburbs” and Shiroyama Park, a wooded hill and former site of Takayama Castle.
Along the 3.5 kilometer long course, you will pass more than a dozen common temples and shrines, the ruins of Takayama’s former castle and ordinary scenes of a rural Japanese town. While the Higashiyama Walking Course is by no means a stunning sightseeing experience, it offers a pleasant way to spend one or two hours and get to know Takayama’s calmer side.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
