Takayama

Takayama, sometimes called Hida-Takayama to distinguish it from other towns of the same name, is a city near the northern of , in the region of .
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  • Type: City with 91,900 residents
  • Description: city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Hida-Takayama” and “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Takayama Jin’ya and Takayama Station.

Museum
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The Takayama Jin'ya is a surviving Edo period jin'ya which served as the Daikansho for Hida Province under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan from 1692 to 1871.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Takayama Main Line in the city of Takayama, , Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company.

Museum
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, Hida no Sato is an open-air museum of close to 30 old farmhouses illustrating the traditional architectural styles of the mountainous regions of .

Takayama

Latitude
36.1396° or 36° 8′ 23″ north
Longitude
137.251° or 137° 15′ 4″ east
Population
91,900
Elevation
583 metres (1,913 feet)
Inception
November 1st, 1936
Open location code
8Q8V47Q2+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 315430925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1850892
Wiki­data ID
Q622594
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Takayama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاكاياما”
  • Armenian: “Տակայամա”
  • Asturian: “Takayama”
  • Basque: “Takayama”
  • Bengali: “তাকাইয়ার্না”
  • Catalan: “Hida-Takayama”
  • Catalan: “Takayama”
  • Cebuano: “Takayama”
  • Chechen: “Такаяма”
  • Chinese: “Takayama-chhī”
  • Chinese: “高山”
  • Chinese: “高山市”
  • Czech: “Takajama”
  • Danish: “Takayama”
  • Dutch: “Takayama”
  • Esperanto: “Takayama”
  • Estonian: “Takayama”
  • Finnish: “Takayama”
  • French: “Takayama-shi”
  • French: “Takayama”
  • Galician: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Galician: “Takayama”
  • German: “Takayama”
  • Greek: “Τακαγιάμα”
  • Gujarati: “તકાયમા”
  • Hebrew: “טקאימה”
  • Hindi: “ताकायामा”
  • Hungarian: “Takajama”
  • Indonesian: “Hida-Takayama”
  • Indonesian: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Indonesian: “Takayama”
  • Irish: “Takayama”
  • Italian: “Takayama”
  • Japanese: “Takayama-shi”
  • Japanese: “たかやま”
  • Japanese: “たかやまし”
  • Japanese: “飛騨の高山”
  • Japanese: “飛騨高山”
  • Japanese: “飛驒高山”
  • Japanese: “高山”
  • Japanese: “高山市”
  • Kannada: “ತಕಯಾಮಾ”
  • Korean: “다카야마 시”
  • Korean: “다카야마시”
  • Korean: “타카야마 시”
  • Latvian: “Takajama”
  • Literary Chinese: “高山市”
  • Lithuanian: “Takajama”
  • Malagasy: “Takayama”
  • Malay: “Takayama”
  • Marathi: “ताकायमा”
  • Mazanderani: “تاکایاما، گیفو”
  • Mazanderani: “تاکایاما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Takayama-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Такаяма (Гифу)”
  • Moksha: “Такаяма”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Takayama”
  • Persian: “تاکایاما، گیفو”
  • Persian: “تاکایاما”
  • Polish: “Takayama”
  • Portuguese: “Takayama”
  • Romanian: “Takayama”
  • Russian: “Такаяма”
  • Sinhala: “ටකයාමා”
  • Slovenian: “Takajama, Gifu”
  • Slovenian: “Takajama”
  • Slovenian: “Takayama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاکایاما، قیفو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاکایاما”
  • Spanish: “Hida-Takayama”
  • Spanish: “Takayama”
  • Sundanese: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Sundanese: “Takayama”
  • Swedish: “Takayama”
  • Tagalog: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Tagalog: “Takayama”
  • Tajik: “Takajama”
  • Tajik: “Такаяма”
  • Tamil: “டகாயாமா”
  • Tatar: “Такаяма”
  • Telugu: “తకాయమ”
  • Thai: “ทะกะยะมะ”
  • Thai: “ทากายามะ”
  • Thai: “ฮิดะทากายามะ”
  • Turkish: “Takayama”
  • Ukrainian: “Такаяма”
  • Urdu: “تاکایاما”
  • Urdu: “ٹاکایاما، گیفو”
  • Vietnamese: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Vietnamese: “Takayama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Takayama”
  • Welsh: “Hida-Takayama”
  • Welsh: “Takayama, Gifu”
  • Welsh: “Takayama”
  • Yue Chinese: “高山”

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