<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishNyumba hizo ziko kwenye mteremko wa mlima wenye kuvutia, nusu maili kusini-magharibi mwa kituo cha Takayama, na nyingi kati ya hizo zina orofa tatu au nne za juu, na paa zao zimejengwa kwa nyasi, na kwa njia ya ajabu zinafanana na zile za vijiji vya Ulaya vya Alpine.  <response>: Laid out in an attractive hillside setting half a mile southwest of Takayama Station, the houses many of them three or four stories high, with steeply pitched grass-thatch roofs are oddly reminiscent of those in European Alpine villages. 