Takayama City 高山市

Takayama, about 160 km north of Nagoya City on the banks of Miyagawa River and on a 600 m high valley basin, is a town with about 80,000 inhabitants. A well-preserved townscape from the Edo period (1603-1868) with arts and crafts handed down from the middle ages. The castle town around Takayama-jô rapidly developed under the Kanamori clan at the end of the 16th century into the political, economic and cultural centre of Hida Province, which also included the nearby Japanese Alps. From 1692, the shogunate in Edo took control of the city and province. On the outskirts of the city is the “Hida-no-Sato Open-Air Museum” with over 30 old farms.