It is the shrine of the Sanno Matsuri: 12 floats parade on 14–15 April, UNESCO since 2016.
It is the patron shrine of the Sanno Matsuri, Takayama's spring festival, when twelve decorated floats (屋台) parade on 14 and 15 April, accompanied by mechanical puppets (からくり) and lion dances, with the lanterns lit on the floats in the evening. Together with the autumn Hachiman Matsuri, it entered the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016 as ‘Yama, Hoko, Yatai’.
Shrine in Takayama.
ℹ️ The shrine is always accessible; the twelve floats parade only on 14–15 April, and for the rest of the year they are kept in storehouses (yatai-gura) scattered around the city.
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It is named among the models for the Miyamizu shrine, whose keepers are Mitsuha's family: what comes from here is above all the setting of the cedar forest and the flight of steps. The main model, however, is still the Keta Wakamiya in Furukawa, which is also on the map.
Sources: newt.net · kurashi-no.jp · tenkamatsuri.jp · ja.wikipedia.org
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