Japanese restaurant connecting Shirakawa-go and Takayama

Many visitors from home and abroad come to this mountain city full of old-fashioned sentiment.

Takayama is a mountain city in Gifu Prefecture. The narrow streets of Sanmachi-dori, where the old town still remains, are lined with numerous small museums and wooden merchant houses dating back to the Edo period. The Takayama Festival, held in spring and fall, is a historic festival that began in the mid-1600s and features gorgeous golden floats called yatai and karakuri dolls.