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Hida/Takayama Visit and Experience a beautiful `little Kyoto` of Gift

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    Hida City

    Takayama has beautifully preserved old town with the relic of a castle town. With the old street and houses, attractive museum, Takayama jinya, daily morning markets and so on. Takayama is famous for a source of high quality timber and highly skilled carpenters during the feudal ages. You can certainly feel the arts and culture of traditional craftsmenship.
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    • Hida City's image
    • Hida City's image
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    Takayama City

    Okuhida is a rustic region surrounded by mountains of the Northern Japan Alps. 1 hour drive from Takayama, filled with nature atmosphere and beautiful scenery. The reproduction of Hida's traditional mountain farming villages of sloped-roof houses at Hida Folk Village, Also many openair hotsprings are enjoyable
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    • Hida City's image
    • Hida City's image

Access

Takayama is easily accessible all year round by train. From Nagoya (taking the "Shinkansen" super-express from Tokyo, Osaka, or Kyoto) an express train reaches Takayama in 2 hours and 30 minutes.


Transportation

From Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto to Nagoya
JR Tokaido Shinkansen
(1 hour 40 minutes from Tokyo, 1 hour from Osaka)

From Nagoya to Takayama
JR Hida limited express train to Takayama
(140 minutes, one train per hour).

Within a city, you can walk, bicycle rental, bus or taxi.

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