Takayama: Day 76 to 80
April 19th 2024 After Hiroshima, my plans were a bit fuzzy, but I headed to Takayama in the Gifu prefecture, to use it as the base for a few places I wanted to visit.
Takayama is the largest city by area in Japan, but less populated as it sits in the mountainous Gifu region (Takayama means Tall Mountain).
I arrived on the day there was the Spring Takayama Festival (Sanno Matsuri).
It is the annual festi
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