26 Sights in Takayama, Japan (with Map and Images)

Shiroyama Park is a public park located in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1873, the park was established in the mountainous area around the ruins of Takayama Castle. The park's name means "castle mountain."

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Issa no Sato Issakan is a registered museum of Kobayashi Issa, located in Takayama Village, Kamitakai District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The official name is "Historical Park Shinshu Takayama Issa no Sato" and is nicknamed "Issakan".

Wikipedia: 一茶ゆかりの里 一茶館 (JA)

Sugoroku is a 2,860 m high mountain located on the main ridgeline of Ginza behind the Hida Mountains, which straddles Omachi City in Nagano Prefecture and Takayama City in Gifu Prefecture. The main mountain area of the Hida Mountains, including Mt. Soroku, was designated as Chubu-Sangaku National Park on December 4, 1934 (Showa 9). It has been selected as one of the 100 Famous Mountains of Flowers, Gifu Hundred Mountains, and 100 Views of Shintakayama City.

Wikipedia: 双六岳 (JA)

Mount Norikura is a potentially active volcano located on the borders of Gifu and Nagano prefectures in Japan. It is part of the Hida Mountains and is listed among the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains and the New 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

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Mount Yake literally, "Burning mountain" is an active volcano in the Hida Mountains, lying between Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, and Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, reaching 2,455 m (8,054 ft) at the highest peak.

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The Takayama Jin'ya (高山陣屋) is a surviving Edo period jin'ya which served as the Daikansho for Hida Province under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan from 1692 to 1871. It is located in what is now Hachiken-machi of the city of Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. It has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1929.

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Senkoji Temple is a temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect located in Shimoho, Tanyugawa Town, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Haku. It is also called Hida Senkoji Temple.

Wikipedia: 千光寺 (高山市) (JA)

Nishihotakadake is a mountain in the southern part of the Hida Mountains (Northern Alps) with an altitude of 2,909 m, straddling Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture and Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The mountain area is designated as Chubu-Sangaku National Park and has been selected as one of the 100 famous mountains of flowers.

Wikipedia: 西穂高岳 (JA)

Mt. Rakuzawa is a 2,755 m high mountain in the Hida Mountains that straddles Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture and Omachi City, Nagano Prefecture. The mountain area has been designated as a special protection area by the Chubu Sangaku National Park.

Wikipedia: 樅沢岳 (JA)

Hida-Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine , commonly: Minashi Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in the Ichinomiya neighborhood of the city of Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of the former Hida Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on May 2.

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Sakurayama Hachimangu (Sakurayama Hachimangu) is a shrine located in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The autumn festival, along with the spring festival at Hie Shrine, is known as the Takayama Festival, and has been designated as an important intangible folk cultural property of Japan.

Wikipedia: 桜山八幡宮 (JA), Website

Minamidake is a 3,033 m (m) high mountain located in the southern part of the Hida Mountains, straddling Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture and Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The mountain area is designated as Chubu-Sangaku National Park. Between Minamidake and Kitahotakadake, there is a series of steep cliffs on a thin ridge called Daikireto.

Wikipedia: 南岳 (JA)

Mount Kurobegorō is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, reaching the height of 2,839.58 m (9,316 ft). It is situated in Japan's Hida Mountains in Gifu Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture. It was specified for Chūbu-Sangaku National Park on December 4, 1934.

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The Hida Takayama Miyagawa Morning Market is held almost every morning on the streets of Shimo-Sannomachi in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, by the Hida Takayama Miyagawa Morning Market Cooperative. It is counted as one of Japan's three major morning markets, alongside the Wajima Morning Market in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and the Katsuura Morning Market in Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture, and is one of the representative tourist attractions of Takayama City.

Wikipedia: 宮川朝市 (JA)

The Hida Limestone Cave is a limestone cave with an 800-meter-long cave and an undeveloped cave 1,000-meter, discovered by Ohashi Sokichi in 1965 in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. It is now maintained and opened to the public as a tourist limestone cave since June 15, 1968. This limestone cave is located at an altitude of 900 m and is famous as the highest tourist limestone cave in Japan. A large number of fossils such as sea lilies and fusulina have been found in the cave, suggesting that this was the bottom of the sea 250 million years ago. The average temperature in the cave is about 12°C. There is also the Ohashi Collection Museum, which is managed and operated by Hida Limestone Cave Tourism Co., Ltd.

Wikipedia: 飛騨大鍾乳洞 (JA)

Choshigamine is a mountain with an altitude of 1,810 m that straddles the cities of Gujo and Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. It belongs to the Ryohaku Mountains and has been selected as one of the 100 mountains in succession.

Wikipedia: 銚子ヶ峰 (JA)

Mt. Aino-dake is a small peak located between Mt. Nishi-Hotaka and Mt. Oku-Ho-Takadake in the Hodaka mountain range of the Northern Alps. The altitude is 2,907 m. The traverse connecting Nishihotakadake and Okuhotakadake is said to be the most dangerous and difficult general mountain trail in Japan, and Mt. Manotake is on this traverse.

Wikipedia: 間ノ岳 (北アルプス) (JA)

Hida Kokubun-ji (飛騨国分寺) is a Shingon-sect Buddhist temple in the Sowamachi neighborhood of the city of Takayama, Gifu, Japan. It is one of the few surviving provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period. Due to this connection, the foundation stones of the Nara period pagoda located on temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1929.

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Mt. Kurai is located on the border of the cities of Takayama and Gero in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The mountain also separates the watersheds of the northern and southern portions of the Hida region. The Jinzū River flows to the north and the Hida River flows to the south.

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Sogenji is a Soto Zen temple located in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The mountain name is Takuryuzan. It is situated within the Higashiyama Scenic Preservation Area. Known as a temple associated with the Kanamori clan, the lords of Hida Takayama, it houses many items related to the Kanamori family. It is the 4th sacred site of the Hida Thirty-Three Kannon Pilgrimage.

Wikipedia: 素玄寺 (JA)

Zennoji Temple is a temple of the Soto sect located in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. It is one of the temples included in the Higashiyama temple group on the east side of the urban area of Takayama City, and is the 5th shrine of the Hida 33 Kannon Shrine.

Wikipedia: 善応寺 (高山市) (JA)

Shinshuji Temple is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect located in Furukawa, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Asako. Held from January 9 to 16 along with the neighboring Enkoji and Honkoji temples, the Hoon Lecture is known as the Sanji Mairi.

Wikipedia: 真宗寺 (飛騨市) (JA)

Sooin is a temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect located in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. Its predecessor was the Betsuji Nagakuji Temple in Sakurayama Hachimangu. It is the 2nd shrine of the 33rd Kannon Shrine in Hida and the 40th shrine of the 49th Yakushi Shrine in Chubu.

Wikipedia: 相應院 (JA)

Soyuji Temple is a temple of the Rinzai sect of Myoshinji in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, and the name of the mountain is Shinryuzan. It is a Bodhi temple of Kanamori Kashige, and is also known as a temple related to Yamaoka Tetsushu. The Holy Kannon Bodhisattva is enshrined, and it is the 6th shrine of the 33 Kannon Shrine in Hida.

Wikipedia: 宗猷寺 (JA)

Mount Naka is a mountain with an altitude of 3,084m located in the southern part of the Hida Mountains, which straddles Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. This mountain is located in Chūbu-Sangaku National Park.

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Yoshijima Family Residence is an old folk house located in Daishinmachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. It has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan and is included in the Japan Heritage "Hida Takumi Techniques and Kokoro - 1300 Years of Passing on to the Present with Trees" certified by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Wikipedia: 吉島家住宅 (JA)