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10428 ／たかやまむら

Gunma Prefecture 吾妻郡

Takayama Village

A church that cost 252 yen 99 sen 8 rin

Nakuta Church, an 1887 chapel

Photo by officeshema (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Shittaka Puppetry

Left hand for brows, eyes and mouth,right hand for the arms: one puppeteer.

A one-person puppet theater (ningyo joruri) performed to gidayu-bushi chanting. The puppeteer works the head-supporting rod with the left hand to move brows, eyes and mouth, and moves the puppet's arms with two rods in the right hand. It is a nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property and a Gunma Prefecture Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

31 heads
Nationally selected, 1978
Prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1983

02 ／ Hirakata House Gatehouse

A building that began as a honjin gatehouseserved as a post office until 1966.

It was built in the late Edo period as the long gatehouse of the Shinden Honjin, the main lodge of Nakayama-juku on the Mikuni Road. In 1873 part of the inn was converted and the Nakayama Post Office opened there; it was used until 1966. It is a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Nakayama Post Office opened, 1873
Used until 1966
Nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property, 1998

03 ／ Cliff Buddhas of Mt. Kannon

On a sheer rock face of Mt. Kannon in Honjuku,99 Buddhist figures have been confirmed.

Statues of Kannon, Jizo, Fudo and Batto Kannon are carved on the rock face midway up the hill. The exact number is unknown, but 99 have been confirmed. The village records that villagers called them Hyakkannon and that they are thought to be the work of a stonemason from Shinano.

99 confirmed
Called Hyakkannon
Village-designated, 1977

Takayama Village from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–October 2016)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

A village with no station, 17 minutes by bus from Nakanojo Station.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

The village has no railway station. From Nakanojo Station on the Agatsuma Line, a Takayama Bus route bus takes 17 minutes on the fastest daily service to reach the stop in front of the village office (timetable revised October 1, 2023). The area is 64.18 km².

People living here: 3,511people
Area: 64.18km²
Households: 1,165households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 6 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —0 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Takayama Village in Japan36.621°N 138.944°E

to NakanojoLocal bus17min

Travel times follow ①たかやまバス（高山運輸倉庫）『停留所・時刻表』PDF（令和5年10月1日改正。村公式『交通案内』kotsu.html と村観光案内 access.html が『たかやまバス時刻表』として載せるもの）の下り（中之条駅発→高山役場前着）。②関越交通バス『中山本宿時刻表』（2026年7月1日改正。村公式 20260701-numata.pdf）の下り（沼田駅前発→中山本宿着） (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Takayama Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

9.1km

Minakami Town, Nakanojo Town, Shibukawa City, Numata City

Takayama Village isthis kind of town.

01Nakuta Church is a village-designated church building in Kumano, Shittaka; the village records that it was built in 1887 (Meiji 20) by 22 believers
02The Shittaka puppet theater is a one-person art, a nationally selected and prefecturally designated folk property, and the Hirakata House gatehouse is a nationally registered cultural property
03Traces of Nakayama-juku on the Mikuni Road and the cliff Buddhas of Mt. Kannon remain; the village lies in northwestern Gunma Prefecture and has no railway station

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takayama Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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