Japan and its cities (II)
The path of the samurai. Japan is a country where the ancient and the modern intermingle generating effects of magic and fantasy.
TAKAYAMA: city located in Gifu, amid Calls
Japanese Alps. It has always been the source of artists and cabinetmakers. The city has a strong tourist profile. On the outskirts you can visit the Hida village, which retains the typical buildings of the seventeenth century, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an excursion into the past time.
In spring and autumn festival takes place in Takayama, one of the most aesthetic of the country, where hundreds of cars decorated by the artisans of Hida city parade full of joy. One of the beauties is that pedestrians have to have the luck to admire the blossoming cherry trees forming a large white cup are the huge cherry Shokawa that has 450 years old and blooms between April and May.
Shirakawago: It is a town located at the foot of Mount Hukusan, northwest of the Gifu region, considered as Patrimony of Humanity. It is characterized by some 150 farms maintain an architectural style unique in the world, called gassho-zukuri, houses are made of wood, are 10 meters wide and have a height of four storey. Their roofs are thatched with a form that can withstand snow. They are compact and arranged every 40 years. To enjoy a view of the village as a whole there is a lookout located next to the castle ruins Ogimachi.