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Non Refundable
This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
Private Full-Day Tour to Takayama and Shirakawa from Nagoya
2 Adults x $1,436.27
$2,872.54
Approx Total
$2,872.54
Pickup included
Inclusions / Exclusions
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Air-conditioned vehicle
Tolls from Nagoya to Takayama and Shirakawago to Nagoya
English-speaking guide driver
Parking Fees
Food including lunch and drinks
Admission fee for Takayama Jinya 440JPY
Admission fee for The Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall & NIkkoukan 1,000JPY
Admission fee for Wadaya in Shirakawago 300JPY
Overview
Refresh yourself in the spectacular scenery of Takayama and Shirakawa-go, two settlements found deep in the mountains of Gifu. Learn about their abundant traditional architecture dating back to over 400 years ago, and the culture surrounding them. You will gain a lot of knowledge and fun facts with your English-speaking guide driver.
Itinerary
Hida-Takayama Miyagawa Morning Market
We suggest that you visit the morning market first, as it closes at noon. At the morning market, you can buy seasonal vegetables, fruits, and also souvenirs.
Most of the shops don't accept credit card. Please bring some cash for shopping.
30 minutes
Sanmachi Suji
You can visit the old merchant street, where most of the main attractions are found. You will discover sake breweries, shops that sell local food and traditional wooden craft and furniture shops (the Hida region is famous for its quality timber and carved wooden products). Your tour guide driver knows a lot about the best restaurants and cafes in this area, so for lunch you can either take his advice, or you can pick up several delicious street foods as you wander. Try the area’s specialities such as mitarashi dango, Hida beef, miso on magnolia leaf and local sake.
1 hour 10 minutes
Takayama Jinya
This place is worth visiting! An old samurai office house where you can learn about life 300 years ago.
30 minutes
Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall
Takayama Festival Float Museum, where you can learn about the town’s biannual festival and its spectacular floats.
30 minutes
Sakurayama Nikkokan
It's next to "Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall" building. You can see one-tenth scale replica of Nikko-Toshogu Shrine are exhibited in this museum.
Nikko-Toshogu enshrined Ieyasu Tokugawa (the first Shougun, which is located in Tochigi-pref, near Tokyo.
20 minutes
Shirakawago Viewing Platform Buna no Komichi
Your driver-guide will take you to Shirakawa-go, an UNESCO registered site. We recommend that you first visit the observatory, which looks over this picturesque village nestled in the mountains. Refresh yourself with the clean air and the beauty of the flowers and surrounding mountains.
30 minutes
The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go Gassho Style Houses
As you wander through the village, admire the preserved thatched houses made in the gassho-zukuri style. Gassho-zukuri means "constructed like hands in prayer", as the farmhouses' steep thatched roofs resemble the hands pressed together in prayer. The houses are still lived in and maintained by local people. Some of these traditional houses are also used for accommodation, as well as museums. To understand just how adapted the village is for life in the mountains, we recommend that you visit one the museums, such as Wada House.
* All the museums need admission fee from 300JPY to 600JPY. Afterwards perhaps take a break at a café, or explore the traditional craft shops, shrines and temples.
2 hours
Wada House
Wada House is a National important cultural property.
It is the largest gassho-zukuri style house in Shirakawago.
30 minutes
Sample Menu
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Non Refundable
This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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