Overview
The town museum of Takayama. It conveys the techniques of the townhouses that prospered through commerce and industry.
About this place
The Hida Takayama Machi no Hakubutsukan (Hida Takayama Town Museum) is a museum in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. It holds about 75,000 historical and folk materials of Hida, centered on Takayama, of which 900 are on permanent display. The exhibits include materials on the Kanamori family, lords of Takayama Castle, Enku Buddhist statues, sake-brewing materials, art and craft objects, the mechanical dolls of the Takayama Festival, and everyday tools of ordinary people, as well as an early Jomon pottery pair of large and small shallow bowls excavated from the Nukazuka site in Katano-cho, Takayama.
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Field：Commerce and industry, townhouse techniques
Source pref.gifu.lg.jp ↗Source pref.gifu.lg.jp ↗Official website
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