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- Hidatakayama Retro Museum
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4.015 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Shinmeimachi 4-7
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We took our three kids (9, 13, 15) here last month and we all had a great time. It was a lot of fun for my husband and I to show our kids many of the games that we played as children and we all loved...
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- Hida Sannogu Hie Shrine
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4.025 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shiroyama 156
- Located approximately a 10-minute walk from the red Nakabashi Bridge that spans the Miya River, this shrine dedicated to Oyamakui no Kami sits at the southern foot of Mt. Shiroyama located in the center of the city. It has a long history of praying for the coming of the deity, and is said to have been built in 1141. It is famous for its annual spring Takayama Festival held every year on April 14 and 15. Of a pair of portable shrines made in 1816 that are both important cultural properties of Takayama City, one is housed in the shed of the main shrine, and the other is in the place where a sacred palanquin is enshrined in the Nakabashi rest station.
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高山市街地の南東端にある神社で、春の高山祭りはこの神社の例大祭です。春の高山祭りては古い町並みにある一の鳥居から神社までの道路に絢爛豪華な12台の山車が並びます。また、恒例の御巡幸はこの神社からスタートします。今回は御巡幸が出ていって、人混みの減った時に参拝しました。森に囲まれた流石の大きな神社で、大きな楠のご神木や稲荷神社や天満宮もあります。
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- Utsue Shijuhattaki Falls (Utsue Shijuhattaki Falls Prefectural Nature Park)
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4.033 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kokufuchoutsue
- The collective term for 13 waterfalls located in a nature park a 15 minute drive from JR Hida-Kokufu Station along Prefectural Route 479. The name of the falls is derived from a local tale known as the “Legend of Yosohachi.” A highly secluded area, visitors can enjoy the sight of the 18.8 meter tall Otaki falls and other waterfalls splashing down rocky walls amidst seasonal scenery. This scenery has been selected in a variety of lists of Japan’s most beautiful locations, including the 100 best examples of natural scenery to preserve in the 21st century, Gifu Prefecture’s 50 most beautiful water areas, and the 33 most beautiful locals to enjoy fall foliage in the Hida-Mino area. There is a campground and hot spring bathhouse nearby, and the stone paved path leading to the falls makes it easy even for families with children to enjoy the gorgeous views.
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Wonderful place next to Takayama. Take train to Hida Kokufu station, outside the station take a free bus to the falls. The bus goes up at 10:08 13:38 and 14:40. The bus stop is opposite to a...
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- Hirayunomori
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengouhirayu 763-1
- Hirayunomori is a large Onsen (hot springs) resort located in the Oku-Hida Onsen District of Gifu Prefecture. Covering an area of approximately 50,000 square meters, and surrounded by verdant natural forest, Hirayunomori has a total of 16 hot springs baths (with separate baths for men and women) with different levels of mineral content and with different water temperature. All of the baths are supplied using the Gensen-kakenagashi (Free-flowing) method directly from a natural hot springs source. The baths include open-air baths with great views of the surrounding natural scenery, as well as a retro-style large indoor bath. There are ski resorts and campsites in the vicinity, making this a marvelous area for leisure activities. There is plenty for children to do as well, so this is a great choice for a family outing.
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- Hida no Sato
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamiokamotomachi 1-590
- This facility is located close to the Hida no Sato bus stop, about a 10-minute ride on the Sarubobo Bus from JR Takayama Station. This open air museum consists of Hida no Sato, a removed and restored old valuable kominka (old house) with a gassho (large thatched roof) style, and its sister facility Folk Village. In the museum, there are 30 kominka, representative of Hida, and they form the landscape of an old agricultural mountain village. Each kominka exhibits old everyday tools, and there are demonstrations of straw craft and Hida quilted clothes. Sangaku Museum in the Folk Village displays historical materials of mountain climbing, and plant and animal specimens.
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- Roadside Station Hida-Kaido Nagisa
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4.010 Reviews - Transportation
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kugunochounagisa 2685
- This roadside station on the side of National Route 41 is located a 15-minute drive from JR Kuguno Station. A red turret (Jomon Symbol Tower) serves as a landmark for the station, which has as the dual themes of “Jomon” and “Harvest.” Its buildings, designed to look like Jomon pit houses, house a bakery that offers fresh-baked bread, a gelato shop, and a fruit juice factory. The station’s restaurant is popular for local flavors such as their healthy Jomon udon noodles and their ayumeshi (sweetfish rice), a winter exclusive made with wild-caught sweetfish. The farmer’s market is stocked with fresh, locally-harvested fruits and vegetables. Their winter-only apple pie is also popular.
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高山市と下呂市の中間あたりの国道沿いに、道の駅飛騨街道なぎさがありました。館内には、この土地の特産品が並んでいて、その奥に、飲食コーナーのカウンターがありました。「焼き立て手作りパン」「桃源郷ジェラート」、そして「ジュース工房」が並んでいます。私たちは、おやつ代わりに、パンとジェラートをいただいてみることにしました。 本当に焼き立て間の残るパンと、えごまとりんごのジェラートは、かなりのおいしさ...
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- Hida Sashiko Company
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4.522 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kataharamachi 60
- Located about a 10-minute walk from JR Takayama Station, this long-established store manufactures and sells traditional Hida handicrafts, sashiko (quilted clothes). Housed in a machiya (traditional wooden townhouse) on a quiet street along the Miya River, it has a space that spreads like a gallery. The “bobo kurumi,” carefully made piece by piece, is a cute sarubobo (monkey doll) made using cloth that can be bought only here. There are many small accessories that use traditional patterns in a contemporary style, and besides pouches and bags, there are also luncheon mats and tissue paper cases with beautiful designs. Even the same products have their own individuality, making it fun to search for your favorite one.
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I love sashiko and the projects I share with friends. I purchased some thread and discovered the uniqueness of your products. The staff was gracious and helpful since I did not speak Japanese very...
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- Art & Festa Forest in TAKAYAMA
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3.510 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Chishimamachi 1111
- This museum dedicated to the Takayama Festival is located a 20-minute drive from Takayama Nishi Interchange on the Tokai Hokuriku Expressway. The museum’s underground dome, which was created by excavating the mountain’s slope, houses a number of exhibits. These include the Heisei Yatai, eight festival floats created from scratch for the first time in 150 years, and interactive marionette exhibit, and the world’s largest taiko drum. Once a year in spring, all of the festival floats are set up in the parking lot, where visitors can enjoy marionette shows performed atop the floats, taiko drum performances, and more. The adjacent Insect Collection of the World features exhibits including specimen of insects from around the world including Japanese Luehdorfia butterflies.
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他の方も大体そうかと思いますが、バスツアー利用で食事です。 飛騨牛が美味しいのは流石です。 自身の参加ではなかったですが、飛騨牛の食べ放題利用とかもあるようです。 お肉だけではなく、お米も美味しかったのが印象的です。
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- Hide Takayama Tourist Information Office
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3.014 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shouwamachi 1-1 Takayama station square
- A tourist information center next to the east ticket gate of JR Takayama Station. Established as part of a project to renovate the station area, the center was designed to harmonize with the single story reinforced concrete station building. The center is filled with sightseeing pamphlets and visitors can check out information on tourism destinations, hot dining spots, and traffic conditions in the city. There are also pamphlets written in a variety of languages for international tourists. In addition, the center has information terminals for disabled tourists.
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JR高山駅をでたところにある観光案内所。高山駅もきれいにリニューアルされていますが、駅にあわせて新しくなっています。飛騨高山のマップやパンフレットのほか、飛騨古川のマップもあり、いただきました。
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- Hirayu Onsen Tourism Information Center
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3.57 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengouhirayu 763-191
- Hirayu Onsen Tourism Information Center is situated opposite the Hirayu Onsen Bus Terminal in the Oku-Hida Onsen (Hot Springs) District of Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The Center provides information about accommodation, tourist attractions, seasonal events etc. in the Hirayu Onsen, which is the oldest and most historic hot springs area in the Oku-Hida District.
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上高地はマイカー規制があるため、シャトルバスでのアクセスとなります。シャトルバスのチケットはあかんだなでも購入可能ですが、平湯のバスセンターでも購入可能です。こちらは駐車場も広いので、予め、平湯でチケットを購入してから、あかんだなに向かうのも1つの方法です。ちなみに、あかんだなを出発したシャトルバスは平湯のバスセンターも経由します。平湯からも多くの観光客が乗って来ます。個人的には、シャトルバスは平...
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- Curnontue
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5.013 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Kiyomicho Makigahora 3154
- "The name of this smokehouse means something like ""How can this be so delicious?"" They make and sell dry sausages, ham, pork patties, and bacon made from Kagoshima Kurobuta pork produced by a veteran farm. The workshop is modeled after an old building in Franche-Comte's Jura area and the large smoke house has a flue at the center for use in smoking their meats. Their premium dried white cured sausage has a deep, distinctive flavor that many customers find addictive."
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お店に入るとまず最初に何種類かの燻製などをお茶付で試食させてくれます。天井にぶら下がっている白カビの熟成ソーセージが一番人気のよう。お値段はそこそこ張りますが、折角高山まで行ったなら寄ってみたいお店です。当日持ち帰るのなら大丈夫と思いますが、一泊の翌日帰りだった自分は日付指定で冷蔵便で宅配してもらいました。白カビの熟成ソーセージ、最高に美味しかったです。
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- Kojin-no-yu
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4.014 Reviews - Accommodations / Hot Spring
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengoutochio
- This is a public open-air bath in Tochio Onsen, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, a gender-segregated bathing facility built on the flood plain of the Gamata River. There is nothing enclosing the direction of the river, and the views of the Northern Alps’ (Hida Mountains) splendid mountains and flowing river are breathtaking. Surrounded by rich nature, one can spend time relaxing in a truly open environment. Since it is open until evening, one can also enjoy dusk and starry sky viewing. There is a dressing room but no reception, so entry fees go into the unmanned cashbox.
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奥飛騨、栃尾温泉郷にある立寄温泉です,蒲田川の河原、山々に囲まれた大自然の中にただ露天風呂があるだけで、野趣溢れる素晴らしい温泉でした。入場料は寸志、無味無臭の単純泉の源泉掛け流しです。地元の方のお話によると、清掃時に一回お湯を全て抜くのでその直後だとお湯が新鮮ながら湯温が下がるので寒い時もあるそうです。
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- Roadside Station Pascal Kiyomi
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kiyomichouoppara 858-1
- Roadside Station Pascal Kiyomi is located almost exactly halfway along National Route 472, “the Seseragi Highway,” which links the cities of Takayama and Gujo. Travelers can visit a tourist farm and fruit orchard or field of lavender, coming into contact with the natural wonders and gorgeous scenery of Hida in all four seasons. This roadside station also actively promotes local products, such as Hida beef, to promote the region itself, and it maintains an information corner and souvenir shop. It puts effort into serving and selling the type of locally produced meals and souvenirs that one expects of the Hida region. In the winter, it serves as the entryway to the Meiho Ski Area, and in the summer, its attractions include fishing and water sports in the Mazegawa River, which flows through the property.
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- Fujii Art Museum
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3.513 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Gifu Takayama-shi Kamisannomachi 69
- The characteristic heavy facade of this museum of folk art is modeled after the gate of the second wall of Takayama Castle. The museum houses a collection of approximately 2,500 pieces of antiques and folk art amassed over 70 years by Takayama's resident doctor, Tadaichi Fujii. The building in which the collection is displayed is a clay structure built over five years using all cypress wood in the Edoman style. The building has walls that are nearly one meter thick. The wide-ranging collection contains, among other things, Kyoho dolls made over 270 years ago, hanging scrolls by Yokoyama Taikan and Ikkyu, and Kutani and Imari ware.
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高山の古い町並・上三之町にある。医師・藤井糺一が収集した古美術品・古民芸品などを展示。入館料700円。展示室内撮影不可。入口の門は高山城二の丸の登城門を総檜造りで復元したもの。土蔵を改修した3層の展示室には、陶器、漆器、家具、書、人形、着物、武具などが所狭しと並んでいるが高山ならではというものはない。「高山の美術民芸」館ではなく、「高山にある」美術民芸館である。
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- Okuhida Onsenkyo
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- Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo
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- Miyagawa Morning Market
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- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimosannomachi
- "This market is held every morning on the roadside in Shimo-sanno-machi, Takayama City, along the Miya River. The market evolved out of a rice market, mulberry leaf market and flower market held in the area in the Edo period (1603-1868); by the middle part of the Meiji period (1868-1912), it had evolved into a ""Morning Market"" in which vegetables were laid out for sale. Today, a range of local specialty products-including vegetables such as Hida spring onions and waxy corn, which are traditional foods in the Hida region, as well as Mitarashi Dango rice-dumplings, which are marinated in soy sauce repeatedly before cooking, and which, unlike most Dango, are not sweet-can be found together crowded together. The Miyagawa Morning Market is ranked as one of the top three best morning markets in Japan, and has become one of Takayama City's major tourist attractions."
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- Soyuji Temple
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4.011 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Soyujimachi 218
- The only Rinzai school temple in Takayama City, it is located an eight-minute drive from JR Takayama Station. In 1632, it was opened by the brothers Kanamori Shigeyori and Shigekatsu, the third head of Hida to pray for their father Arishige. Inside, the the retainer of the shogun, Yamaoka Tesshu's monument and his parents' grave are enshrined and they are registered as a city designated historical site. Otherwise, it is a temple and shrine that has several city designated historical sites such as main hall, bell hall, and the group grave of the craftsmen. The garden and stepping stones on the east side of the the priests' living quarters and on the mountain side it is organized with the layer of stones, law and mid-height trimmed trees, and you can get a glimpse of the elegant and sophisticated samurai culture of Takayama.
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Just a quick walk from the centre of town up the hill. Very peaceful spot with a couple of hidden gems. Temple itself was large with well maintained garden etc. And if you look carefully on one of...
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- Hida Gokoku Shrine
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3.511 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Horibatamachi 90
- This shrine is located in the Takayama Station Sannomaru ruins about an eight-minute drive from Takayama Station. The grounds were purified in 1878, and the Chukyoin was completed there the next year. The stone walls on the site are the original ones from the Sannomaru period. Now known as a popular spot for cherry blossom viewing, there are many Yoshino cherry trees planted around the outer moat that bring to mind castle walls. It is said to be the smallest shrine among the countless Gokoku shrines (shrines that enshrine and honor the war dead) throughout the country.
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高山駅から徒歩20分ほど。高山城三の丸跡に鎮座。 1909年に「飛騨招魂社」として創建。現在も神門前には創建時の社名が彫られた社号標が立っている。祭神は西南の役以降の飛騨出身の戦没者。社殿は木造銅板葺き。左側に繋がっている「忠孝苑合祭殿」には飛騨大神宮・黄金神社・祖霊殿が祀られており、さらにその左には久和司神社、飛騨匠神社が鎮座している。
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- Hirayu no Yu Hirayu Folk Museum
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengouhirayu
- This museum is about a five-minute walk after getting off at the Hirayu Bus Terminal. The building is a remodeled private house with a half-hipped roof, with a sunken fireplace room and hemp clothing to show old rural life of the first floor, and exhibits of farm tools that introduce the history of Hida on the second floor. And another thing that is popular is Hirayu no Yu that adjoins the Hirayu Folk Museum. The rotenburo (open-air bath) has spring water directly from the source and is located in a clump of trees, giving it a great atmosphere. Able to see the changing scenes of the seasons from fresh green to autumn leaves and winter snow, you can enjoy the beauty of nature and Hirayu’s hot springs to your heart’s content.
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- Ankokuji Temple
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4.010 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Kokufucho Nishimonzen 474
- This is one of the temples which Ashikaga Takauji and his brother Tadayoshi, the founders of the Muromachi Shogunate, ordered built across Japan. It was founded in 1347 by converting Shorinji Temple in Kokufu. It originally had a complete seven-structured temple compound and nine sub-temples, but most of it was destroyed during the Warring States period. The rotating sutra shelf in the scripture house which survived the fires is the oldest of its kind in Japan. It's one of the few sutra repositories to be declared a National Treasure, along with those at Horyuji Temple and Toshodaiji Temple. The Senshin no Mori forest behind the temple has numerous cultural assets, and you can do a walk taking in some of the 33 sacred spots of the Saigoku Pilgrimage.
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岐阜にある2つの国宝建物のうちの一つである経蔵があるお寺です。平時から内部拝観には予約がいるようです。1408年に建てられた経蔵は離れたところから見ただけなので華美さを控えた武家らしい禅宗様ですが、和様も取り込まれているとのこと、機会があれば予約して内部も見てみたいと思いました。
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Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.
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