Hirata Folk Art Museum (Hirata Kinen-kan), Takayama

We are museum-oholics and rarely pass one by. We'd had enough of jostling with the large friendly crowd of visitors wandering through the narrow streets of old town Takayama. It had started to... 

We are museum-oholics and rarely pass one by. We'd had enough of jostling with the large friendly crowd of visitors wandering through the narrow streets of old town Takayama. It had started to...  more »

Though sadly rundown, dusty, and lacking in translations of its signage, what the visitor does come away with is a sense of the economy in Takayama's pre-tourist heyday, and thus the way a prosperous....  more

Though sadly rundown, dusty, and lacking in translations of its signage, what the visitor does come away with is a sense of the economy in Takayama's pre-tourist heyday, and thus the way a prosperous....  more »