KYOTO--Festival-goers were treated to the bicentennial return of a “yamahoko” float in the Gion Festival on July 24 as the Takayama float participated for the first time in nearly two centuries.

Located in the foothills of Japan's Northern Alps and surrounded by forests is the city of Hida Takayama. Known as Hida's "Little Kyoto," Takayama's old town, retains a traditional touch with its ...

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Tetsunori Takayama, a 57-year-old priest at Hagurojinja ... Takuya Nishimura, a professor of geodesy at Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute, said, “The same mechanism ...