Takayama Jinya

Packed up and left Tokyo today for our pilgrimage across take least a small part of Japan! We headed to Shinagawa station in Tokyo and, using our handy JR passes, managed to get reservations on this next Shinkansen train leaving for Nagoya. In Nagoya we were to transfer to the local train line and head up into the mountains for Takayama.
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... market, we spent the first day mostly wandering around aimlessly and enjoying the traditional atmosphere. The historic administrative office, Takayama Jinya, is one of the finest and largest examples of old Japanese architecture. I had passed on the ...

... Tokyo ghetto, Asakusa. But anyway, then I went to the Takayama Jinja (Takayama Temple), which turned out to actually be the Takayama JinYa (Takayama Gonverment House), which was exactly as boring as it sounds. But oh well, it was an experience. Then, not ...

... picked up some extra supplies for dinner before eventually finding the main Sanmachi area.  The area had continued to flourish since Takayama Jinya was established over 300 years before.  The streets and main roads of this part of the town had ...

... . I decided to not let that hinder me in my enthusiasm for this lovely town. My first point of interest was Takayama-Jinya, which is a administrational building dated back to the time of the Tokugawa Shogunat. The current building is much younger though, ...

... the Takayama Jinya, and saw that there were free english guided tours and decided we would like to check it out.  Takayama Jinya was a local government administrative branch office during the Edo era.  There were over 60 branch offices in Japan ...

... y restaurantes que ocupan edificaciones de época.  Más tarde recuperamos la paz interior recorriendo el camino de los templos de Teramachi, y acabamos refugiándonos de la lluvia en el Takayama-Jinya, edificio gubernamental de la época Edo. ...

... on the 8th & 9th October - two days after we return home to London. These festivals are hugely significant is Japan and the people of Takayama often have an extra 300,000 people in the town. Apparently this if five times the usual population! Our ...

... interesting to us was a mechanic doll powered by a waterwheel and I felt like seeing more mechanic dolls.    Takayama / Japan 2010 Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY1eFrPJEDY&feature=channel The video is from Takayama City. I have ...

... Du reste, il n'y a plus de château, mais il reste un bâtiment gouvernemental de l'époque, que l'on est allé visiter. Le Takayama Jinya était en effet un bâtiment du bakufu (gouvernement) de Edo. Il a hebergé la demeure du daikan (gouverneur), des ...

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