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JAPAN
Short but sweet touching trip
Takayama
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Takayama is a city in the mountainous Hida
region of Gifu Prefecture. Takayama retains a
traditional touch like few other Japanese cities,
especially in its beautifully preserved old town.
It now ranks as one of the prime candidates among
travelers wishing to add a rural element into
their itineraries
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Acer palmatum, called Japanese maple or smooth
Japanese maple (Japanese irohamomiji, or momiji)
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Nakabashi Bridge (Red Bridge) of Takayama
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Nakabashi Bridge and Miya-gawa river
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Miya-gawa river
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The name 'Takayama' means 'tall mountain'
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Local artisan making colorful glass beads for
necklaces and earrings
The mountain city of Takayama is associated with
charms known as "sarubobos", which are
traditionally passed from grandmothers to
grandchildren and mothers to daughters, though
are now often sold as souvenirs. Takayama was
settled as far back as the Jomon period. Takayama
is best known for its inhabitants' expertise in
carpentry. It is believed carpenters from
Takayama worked on the Imperial Palace in Kyoto
and on many of the temples in Kyoto and Nara. The
town and its culture, as they exist today, took
shape at the end of the 16th century, when the
Kanamori clan built Takayama Castle. About a
hundred years later the city came under the rule
of the Tokugawa shogunate. However, the high
altitude and separation from other areas of Japan
kept the area fairly isolated, allowing Takayama
to develop its own culture over about a 300-year
period
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The Takayama Festival, held in spring and autumn,
is considered one of Japan's best festivals.
Each festival features its own set of about a
dozen festival floats (yatai).
Side view of one of the festival floats at
Takayama Spring Festival (Sanno Matsuri)
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A set of replica floats are, furthermore,
exhibited around the year at the Matsuri no
Mori festival museum
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Main exhibition space at Matsuri no Mori
Takayama Matsuri Yatai Kaikan Four of the autumn
festival's eleven floats (yatai) are exhibited at
the Takayama Matsuri Yatai Kaikan The Takayama
Festival, held in spring (April 14 and 15) and
autumn (October 9 and 10), is ranked as one of
Japan's three most beautiful festivals (the other
two are Kyoto's Gion Matsuri and theChichibu
Matsuri)
Robots performing on the biggest drums in the
world at Matsuri no Mori
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Takayama Autumn Festival (9th and 10th of
October) has been celebrated for around 400 years
now
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Takayama Archives Museum
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The building is the pride of local carpenters
and artisans work, as the its almost completely
built with hinoki  (Japanese Cypress). Its also
the first building in the area to have glass
windows
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Takayama Archives Museum. This building is the
old Town Office
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Besides the liberal use of glass windows, the
curved lattice ceiling of the meeting room on the
second floor also adopted western style
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Takayama Jinya is a historical government house
that has been restored to its earlier design and
is open for tours
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Takayama Jinya
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Takayama iron manhole cover
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A carved wooden lucky cat (maneki neko) in front
of an antique store in Takayama
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Takayama iron manhole cover
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Takayama iron manhole cover
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Takayama gained importance as a source of high
quality timber and highly skilled carpenters
during the feudal ages. The city was consequently
put under direct control of the shogun and
enjoyed quite a bit of prosperity considering its
remote mountain location
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Ashinaga zuchi zou, statue on Kajibashi Bridge,
Takayama
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Ashinaga-tenaga ("Long Legs, Long Arms") are a
pair of yokai in Japanese folklore. One,
Ashinaga-jin, has extremely long legs, while the
other, Tenaga-jin, has extremely long arms. They
were first described in the Japanese encyclopedia
Wakan Sansai Zue Tenaga zuchi zou on the
bridge crossing Miyagawa
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Ashinaga zuchi zou ,statue on Kajibashi Bridge,
Takayama
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Daikoku, Deity of Wealth or of the household,
particularly the kitchen.  Daikokuten evolved
from the Buddhist form of the Indian
deity Shiva intertwined with the Shinto
god Okuninushi
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Miyagawa river
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Lucky cats (maneki-neko) by the
River The maneki-neko (literally "beckoning
cat") is a common Japanese figurine (lucky charm,
talisman) which is often believed to bring good
luck to the owner and is usually displayedoften
at the entranceof shops, restaurants, pachinko pa
rlors, and other businesses.
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Established in the 16th century as the castle
town of the Kanamori family, Takayama is now
famous throughout Japan for its beautifully
preserved old-quarter, which has a series of
streets lined with Edo style wooden buildings
Takayama iron manhole cover
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Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2015
Sound Teresa Teng
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