Takayama
Takayama is a city in Japan's mountainous Gifu Prefecture. The narrow streets of its Sanmachi Suji historic district are lined with wooden merchants' houses dating to the Edo Period, along with many small museums. The city is famed for its biannual Takayama Festival, going back to at least the mid-1600s, celebrating spring and fall with parades featuring ornate, gilded floats and puppet shows.
People born in Takayama (First 19 people) - Page 0
Kenji Utsunomiya
Japanese lawyer
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Japanese visual artist
Keisuke Tomita
Actor
Kōsaku Takii
Japanese poet
Madoka Matsuda
Japanese movie actress
Mayumi Yamashita
Japanese judoka
Michiko Shimizu
Japanese tarento
Shunpei Kaneko
Japanese Politician
Ōhide Tanaka
Japanese author
Nobutaka Murao
Newscaster
Hisako Nakamura
Japanese author
Tomokichi Fukurai
Psychologist
Eiichi Makino
Japanese author
Chika Fujimura
Japanese actor
Tamurapan
Japanese songwriter
Shigeo Komori
Japanese music executive
Nobuhisa Segawa
Japanese writer
Toshikatsu Endo
Japanese sculptor