Together with Kyoto’s Gion and Saitama’s Chichibu Night Festival, Gifu Prefecture’s Takayama Spring Festival is considered ...

The city’s two-day Autumn Takayama Festival, considered one of Japan’s three most beautiful festivals, ended on Oct. 10. It featured lines of food stalls for the first time in three years.

Long accustomed to calling the dish "chuka soba" the people of Takayama still use the old term with affection. 02:27 The city of Takayama is located in Gifu's Hida region, surrounded by many peaks ...