Is the location of "A Bridge to the Starry Skies - Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi" a real place? One of the strong points of A Bridge to the Starry Skies - Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi is the location. The countryside town, with all that pure air, water and greenery really sets the mood and works as a contrast with the Tokyo grown protagonist.


  Shibuya? Is it something to eat? - Ui, ep 7


Is it a real place? Or was it inspired in some real world location? Bonus points for google maps link.
I've never seen Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, but I was able to find a blogpost by somebody who seems to have found the model-location for the countryside part of the show: Hida-Takayama, Gifu. 

If you want to explore the area, here's a Street View from just outside the Hida-Ichinomiya station (the one whose signboard is shown below), and here's a Street View from on the red bridge (also shown below).

Here's a couple of the comparison shots from that blogpost: 













For the dedicated anime pilgrim, anime-tourism.com may be of particular interest - it includes a list of locations for quite a few anime, including Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi. And not only do you get the locations, you get a map with pins for all the sites you should visit! The pins are, in order:


Hida-Ichinomiya Station
Miyanaka School, old building (now demolished)
Kanzaemon Inn
Bridge on the way to school
Bus stop
Hida-Ichinomiya Minashi shrine
Liquor store (?)
Bagpipe Cafe
Nakabashi / central bridge
In front of the pickler's