Experience Takayama on a fully customisable private tour available as either a 4-hour or 8-hour experience. Meet your guide at your hotel in central Takayama or, if no pickup location is requested, at the Hida Takayama Tourist Information Centre beside JR Takayama Station.

After meeting your guide, discuss your interests and create a practical itinerary from Takayama’s historic streets, markets, temples, shrines, traditional houses, sake breweries, and cultural attractions.

4-Hour Customisable Tour – Sample Itinerary

A typical 4-hour tour visits three to four attractions in central Takayama.

• Hotel pickup or meet your guide / Tour introduction — 10 minutes
• Miyagawa Morning Market / Explore local food and produce — 40 minutes
• Sanmachi Street / Walk through Takayama’s preserved Old Town — 50 minutes
• Takayama Jinya / Discover the former Edo-period government office — 60 minutes
• Funasaka or Hirase Sake Brewery / Learn about local sake culture — 40 minutes
• Walking between locations and tour conclusion — approximately 40 minutes

8-Hour Customisable Tour – Sample Itinerary

The 8-hour option allows you to explore Takayama in greater depth and include attractions outside the immediate city centre.

• Hotel pickup or meet your guide / Tour introduction — 10 minutes
• Miyagawa Morning Market — 40 minutes
• Sanmachi Street — 50 minutes
• Takayama Jinya — 60 minutes
• Lunch break — approximately 60 minutes
• Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine and Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall — 70 minutes
• Hida Folk Village or Higashiyama Walking Course — 90 minutes
• Local sake brewery, traditional house, or another attraction of your choice — 50 minutes
• Walking and local transport between locations — approximately 50 minutes

Possible destinations include Sanmachi Street, Miyagawa Morning Market, Takayama Jinya, Jinya Morning Market, Higashiyama Walking Course, Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine, Takayama Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, Kusakabe Folk Museum, Yoshijima Heritage House, Hida Folk Village, Hida Kokubunji Temple, Funasaka Sake Brewery, and Hirase Sake Brewery.

Both options are fully customisable. Your guide will arrange the most suitable route based on your interests, opening hours, walking distance, transport time, and the number of places you would like to visit.

Admission fees, public transport fares, food, drinks, and sake tastings are not included unless otherwise stated.