高岡御車山祭 Yamachosuji Street is a row of preserved storehouses dating dorsum to the early on 1900's inwards
Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture.
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| Yamachosuji Street Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture. |
The houses were built past times wealthy merchants on a major route through the town after their previous properties were destroyed inwards a fire. Some of the buildings are opened upwardly every bit museums too tin hold upwardly entered for a pocket-size fee. The Sugano Residence (9.30am-4pm; Tel: 0766 22 3078) is 1 such house opened upwardly to the public. The buildings are marked past times their dark painted upper flooring amongst thick shutters for the windows. The tiled roofs produce got
shachihoko (mythical orca-like creatures), which are believed to protect from fire.
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| The Sugano Residence, Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture © Takaoka Lifelong Learning Center. |
This traditional street inwards Takaoka is likewise on the route of the
Mikurumayama Festival which takes house on May 1 (or the adjacent 24-hour interval inwards illustration of heavy rain). Seven beautifully decorated, wheeled floats, called Mikurumayama, are pulled through the streets inwards a festival that harks dorsum to the town's founding inwards 1609. The famous samurai warrior
Maeda Toshiie (1538-1599) gave a carriage, previously given to him past times
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, to his boy Maeda Toshinaga (1562-1614), the human being who later on built the castle inwards Takaoka.
Toshinaga then, inwards turn, presented the railroad vehicle to the townspeople too over fourth dimension to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than carriages were added to the procession to celebrate the institution too prosperity of the urban heart too person amongst the edifice of the castle. Lanterns on the floats are lit at nighttime on Apr xxx when people come upwardly out to admire them. The whole procession draws 1000's of visitors to Takaoka on May 1. Further data inwards Japanese tin hold upwardly found on the
official website. © JapanVisitor.com Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/
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