Higashiyama Yūhodō

photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by kiwa dokokano · CC BY-SA 3.0

The feudal lord Kanamori modelled it on Kyoto: its 4 km pass more than ten temples and shrines.

When Kanamori Nagachika, the daimyō who pacified Hida in the Sengoku period and founded Takayama, built the town at the foot of his castle, he placed the temples on the slopes to the east, modelling them on the Higashiyama district of Kyoto. The path of about 4 km (a ‘corridor of history’) starts about 12–13 minutes' walk from the east exit of Takayama Station, follows the Enako River and enters the temple town: in the first half of the route alone there are two shrines and eight temples, including the bell gate of the Unryū-ji (moved here from Takayama Castle) and the imposing gate of the Daiōji.

It is a public path, not a single temple: it runs through the Higashiyama Teramachi district, which came into being with the founding of the castle town in the late sixteenth century and has remained the religious centre of Takayama. It continues towards the Takayama Castle park.

ℹ️ The path and the temple grounds are open at all times, as it is a public way; individual temples have their own opening hours for the buildings, not checked here one by one.

🚉 Takayama Nohi Bus Centre · 14 min walk

Sources: kankou-gifu.jp · kankou-gifu.jp

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