June
HIDA TAKAYAMA NOMBE Festival Sake Brewery Hopping
Hida Takayama is blessed with climate, water, and rice, which have produced high quality local sake. Sake brewing is still carried out in the historic sake breweries that remain in the old townscape. Hida Takayama Sake Brewery "Nombe Festival" is a stamp rally where visitors can visit sake breweries while tasting sake. Buy a Hida Takayama Goshuin Cho (sake drinking book) and complete 6 sake breweries! For more information, check the special website!
- Date
May 30 - June 30, 2024
- Business Hours
10:00–12:00 / 13:00–16:00
- Fee
Advance ticket 2,700 yen | Ticket and souvenir seal albumn 3,000 yen
- Address
6 Breweries around Old Street
- Contact
Hida Takayama Tourism & Convention Bureau
1-2 Honmachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture 506-0011
Telephone: +81-577-36-1011 / Hours: 9:00–18:00- Access
Approximately 10 minutes on foot from JR Takayama station
- Website
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HIDA TAKAYAMA NOMBE Festival Sake Brewery Hopping (External link)
Flower Forest Festival Utsue 48 Waterfalls Wildflower Garden
Utsue 48 Waterfalls Park, a famous waterfall in Kokufu Town. In the flower garden located in one corner of the park, about 150,000 kurinosou plants are in full bloom. The “Flower Forest Festival” is held when the flowers are in full bloom. The first 30 visitors to arrive will receive “Kurinso seeds” as a gift!
- Date
June 8 - June 9,2024
- Business Hours
9：00 - 16：00
- Fee
300 yen 12yrs over
100 yen 3-11yrs- Address
964 Utsue, Kunifu-cho, Takayama-shi, Gifu 509-4121
- Contact
Phone 0577-72-5526
- Access
Approx. 30 minutes by train and bus from JR Takayama station
- Website
Hida Taste Festival
The popular Hida Taste Festival is held in spring and fall. The festival offers a variety of hometown “Hida tastes” such as Hida beef skewers, grilled Japanese trout and Amago, Mitaarashi dango dumpling and Gohei Mochi (rice cakes), and other Hida delicacies. You can taste old favorites and discover new favorites.
- Date
June 1-2,2024 Oct.5-6,2024
- Business Hours
9：00 - 16：00
- Fee
Free
- Address
35-1, Kamiichino-machi,Takayama-shi
- Contact
Phone 0577-35-0370
- Access
Approximately 10 minutes on foot from JR Takayama station
- Website
Garakuta Fair (Jumble market)
An antique fair started in 1982. Held on the first Sunday of the month from April to October. The streets are temporarily closed to vehicles (called “pedestrians’ paradise”) and over 20 art dealers have stalls on the street. You will enjoy looking at olden daily-life utensils while strolling down the street.
- Date
First Sunday of the month, from April to October each year
Lavender in bloom
There are two parks featuring lavender flowers: the Kiyomi Lavender Park and Pascal Kiyomi Lavender Garden. In early summer, light-purple lavender flowers come into bloom, releasing a relaxing fragrance that floats on the air, suffusing the whole area with their heady scent.
- Date
From the end of June to mid July each year
Open-Air Bath Day
The Oku Hida Hot Springs Village sets June 26 each year, in Japanese equivoque, as open-air bath day. On that day, a communal open-air bath is available to the public free of charge, and people are invited to follow a prescribed walking course and join a stamprally.
- Date
June 26 each year