A long, simple park along the Miyagawa River which peaceful views of the water. A great spot for cherry blossom viewing in the spring as the park is lined with over 100 cherry trees.
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高山祭屋台会館
Takayama Festival Float Exhibition Hall. This is the hall where the festival floats are stored. Takayama hosts a famous yearly festival and the floats are quite ornate. The floats on display are rotated.
桜山日光館
Admission is included in the ticket to the Takayama Festival Float Museum. The hall displays one-tenth-scale replicas of 28 buildings from Nikko's Toshogu shrine, created by craftsmen in intricate detail.
からくりミュージアム
Museum displays mechanical dolls which get mounted onto the Takayama festival floats. The museum also shows over 200 lion dance masks from around Japan.
Kusakabe Heritage House, 日下部民芸館
The Kusakabe house is a restored old merchant's home built in 1879. The home is filled with artifacts and crafts from that time period.
昭和館
A popular culture museum with exhibits from the mid-Showa Period (1950-60s). Various streets and shops display Showa-era memorabilia. You can explore the toy shop, appliance store, restaurant, doctor's office, movie theatre, and barber shop. There are also electric collections of battledores, war relics, plastic anime and manga masks, cameras, movie posters and children's toys.
飛騨高山まちの博物館 Hida-Takayama-machi no Hakubutsukan
The museum is in 17th-century warehouses once owned by the Yajima family who ran a timber business and the Nagata family who owned the best sake breweries in Takayama. There are 14 exhibition rooms dedicated to individual themes ranging from the Takayama Festival and traditional houses to the city’s history and local artists.