As a small city with a permanent population of only a few hundred thousand, Takayama must not be at the top of all Japanese tourism recommendation books, but with the increasing number of tourists in Kyoto, Osaka and other places, this place in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, has slowly begun to unveil. In fact, as the largest city in Japan, it has always been considered by the Japanese people to be the last city with a real Japanese original flavor, retaining the purest Japanese atmosphere.
Because it is located in the middle of Japan, it is also the best choice for Japanese citizens to travel and hot springs, so the convenience of living is very superior. It is very convenient to do the Inano bus from Nagoya to Takayama, and the top hotels that can be found on Agoda are basically a 10-minute walk near Takayama Station, and although it is not as famous as the other nearby Gero Onsen, Takayama Onsen is also an excellent choice, and if you are in a hurry, you can only keep this section.
We arrived at Takayama from Kanazawa to Shirakawa in the middle of the day, so it was close to 8 o'clock when we got off the bus. The first choice must be to solve the problem of mouth and stomach first. The most famous local is the taste of the Heavenly Kingdom, you can believe such a small town, there are 23 tables in front of the queue at 8 o'clock at night, in order to avoid the popularity of tourists, I specially looked at the list of registered queues, and found that my name before and after almost all are Japanese, it is also assured, the original tour is to see the local scenery, taste the local taste of it ~
After waiting for more than 2 hours, close to 10 p.m. to take a seat, it was basically the last batch of guests to entertain, and only no more than 45 minutes to eat, after all, 11 o'clock is already a very late closing time for the local town. The taste is indeed proportional to the price, during the period there was a former colleague in Shanghai to find me, this buddy resigned after he went to Horqin to contract a cattle farm, the current momentum is huge, I offer a meat map, people immediately said "this is the old price tenant, the price is not cheap, this cost performance is good), said I was excited, immediately added two more plates of grilled meat slices ~ strongly recommend the future to go to the small partner in advance positioning, you can save a lot of wasted waiting time.
Early the next day, you can go to the most famous local Takayama Jinya, which is a must-see building in Takayama City, known as "Little Kyoto". Originally one of the residences of the Takayama lord Kanemori clan, it later became the direct seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, the office of the local government. Originally built in 1615, only the barn is the building at the time of its construction, and the other buildings were rebuilt between 1816 and 1841, and have a long history of 400 years.
In order to preserve the original taste, the interior of the "Takayama Jinya" is arranged according to historical allusions, including the interrogation station for torturing prisoners and the bamboo torture equipment, which is still the interrogation location of the old times. Although it is an administrative institution, the elegance and tranquility of the entire structure is a strong Japanese style. The only thing to complain about is that Japan really has to take off its shoes everywhere, and in the winter, wearing thin socks and stepping on the wooden board, it is really frozen and wants to die. However, the benefits of the big winter are also obvious, and the photos are almost all once filmed, without considering the head of the person who suddenly broke into the camera.
When Takayama Came out, I happened to run into local monks (I don't know if they were monks, but the costumes seemed to be) praying for the blessings of the typhoon-stricken people. It also coincides with the fact that the morning market in Jinya is not over, and most of them are some apples and pickles grown at home that are sold by local residents. The store is very enthusiastic about cutting small samples for us to try, and it is a happy one.
After passing through the morning market, turning ahead of the road, you will arrive at The Old Street of Takayama. It used to be a merchant town that was once flourishing, and now it is also a commercial atmosphere. Takayama is best known for its sake and hida beef. In many shops, you can buy a small wine glass for 350 yen per person, and then you can try all the sake in the shop, and you can take the small wine glass with you after drinking it. This is a good attempt for people who drink well and like to drink, but a few of us don't have the habit of drinking early in the morning, so everyone only watched the hilarity, but did not try anything, but put all the experience on the exploration of Hida beef.
Don't have to choose which one is good or not, because the people in line have fully explained the problem, waited for about 20 minutes, we bought the following consistent sushi, two pieces of 5A beef sushi, you can also choose 1000 yen of three pieces, the following configuration plus a seaweed bun of beef + fish roe sushi, unfortunately I because of thyroid problems, so I chose the most basic configuration as follows. As it turns out, the basic quality of the queue is still guaranteed, and this beef, which is almost melted in the mouth, plus a small amount of salt and Japanese soy sauce, is extremely delicious. If there weren't too many people in line, I would really like to have another one.
The little mountain does not take a long time, walk slowly, eat slowly, is the greatest appreciation of it.