Hida no Sato Folk Village

photo by Oren Rozen · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by Mikkabie · CC BY-SA 4.0

Thirty houses saved in 1959 from the Miboro Dam: four are Important Cultural Properties.

When in 1959 the Miboro Dam threatened to submerge whole villages of upper Hida, some thirty rural houses (many of them gasshō-zukuri, with steeply pitched roofs to bear the snow) were dismantled and rebuilt here, on a hill on the edge of Takayama; the museum opened in 1971. Four of the houses are Important Cultural Properties of Japan, and craftspeople on site still demonstrate weaving, carving and straw work.

Open-air ethnographic museum bringing together traditional rural houses from the Hida area, many of them saved from being submerged by the Miboro Dam in the ’50s–’60s.

ℹ️ Open 8:30–17:00 all year round (extended evening hours during the winter illuminations). Tickets: adults 700 yen, children 200 yen.

🚉 Takayama Nohi Bus Centre · 32 min walk

Sources: hidanosato.com · j-muse.or.jp

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