Takayama

Takayama is fairly old, dating back to the Jomon period. It is best known for its background in carpentry.

It is believed carpenters from Takayama worked on the Imperial Palace in Kyoto and on many of the temples in Kyoto and Nara.

The town and its culture, as they exist today, took shape at the end of the 16th century, when the Kanamori clan built Takayama Castle.

About a hundred years later the city came under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.