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Nihon Taishomura

3.5

38 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Prefecture Ena City Akechi 456

"Nihon Taisho Mura is a theme park located a five-minute walk from Akechi Station on the Akechi Railway. Volunteers manage and staff the park which is based on the concept of ""Nihon Taisho Mura, streetscapes and customs of the past."" Akechi was once a town full of yarn-making factories, and a streetscape of shops, houses, a library, and a museum from the Taisho period (1912-1926) have been recreated there and contain displays of materials and artifacts pertaining to Taisho culture. Visitors can feel as if they are in a time warp if they take the ""Haikarasan Course,"" in which they dress up in hakama (traditional culotte-style trousers) and roam around the streets in which the atmosphere of the Taisho period remains."

大正時代の雰囲気をというコンセプトで町おこしとして作られた野外テーマパークです。全てを見たわけではないですが，関係者の記念館や役場跡等この地の独自性やまとまりが感じられず，全国には結構たくさん「大正ロマン」を感じられる施設がある中あまり記憶に残らない場所で残念でした。江戸時代末期頃の古民家「三宅家」は大正と関係ないですが見る価値があると思います。
Shishi Hall (Shishi Kaikan)

4.5

40 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Sakuramachi 53-1

The Shishi Hall (Shishi Kaikan) is a museum in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that is dedicated to Karakuri. Karakuri are mechanically-operated moving human figures and models that are displayed on the floats that parade through Takayama during the Takayama Matsuri (Takayama Festival), one of the “Three Great Festivals of Japan”; they are controlled using strings, springs and clockwork, etc. The Shishi Hall’s “Karakuri Performance,” in which visitors are able to see how expertly the Karakuri are operated, was selected as a one-star item in the Michelin Travel Guide. There is also a display of approximately 300 ceremonial “lion heads” from all over Japan; as the only exhibition of its kind in Japan, this lion-head display has been designated as an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

Amazing exhibition of the floats used during processions which are huge and finely decorated. Well worth a visit
Former Imai Family Residence and Mino History Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Minoshi Izumichou 1883

This is the former residence of the Imai family who were wealthy merchants in what today is Mino City. Originally built in the middle of the Edo Period, it was reportedly expanded in the early Meiji Period. As paper merchants and the head of the village, they were extremely wealthy, and the house was the most splendid in the region. The Meiji Period addition included a three-meter skylight. The courtyard has an elegant suikinkutsu, used to make a special dripping sound, and has been designated as one of the Top 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Mino historic museum is at the back. Its Udatsu Kura has displays on udatsu (old roof ridges) and you can learn about Niwaka (an impromptu comic play) in its Niwaka Kura.

Very interesting old residence. Beautiful garden and well kept hidden treasure. Will be back again in the future.
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu

4.0

25 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Gifushi Usa 4-1-22

An art museum located in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture dedicated to the theme of coming in contact and engaging in a dialogue with beauty. The entire museum building is barrier-free. The spacious, verdant grounds are dotted with sculptures, giving visitors the chance to appreciate art while going for a stroll. The museum has a large collection of pieces by artists born in and connected to Gifu Prefecture as well as by artists from around the world, such as key French symbolist painter Odilon Redon’s Closed Eyes. A 15-minute walk from JR Nishi-Gifu Station.

以前は岐阜駅前からバスを利用していたが今回は西岐阜駅から歩いてみた。大通りを左に１５分進むと美術館の真ん前に出る。館内では企画展はなく地元有志の写真展と同じく地元出身の書家「篠田桃江」の作品が展示されていた。これまでは「ルドン」目的で訪館していたが今回は「桃江」１４点の作品観たさに来館した。三越本店で桃江作品と出会い以来長野上田美術館・岡山高梁美術館と彼女の展覧会の追っかけをしてきた。正直展示数１...
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu

4.0

28 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Tajimishi Higashimachi 4-2-5 Within the ceramic park MINO

This public museum operated by Gifu Prefecture specializes in modern ceramic art. It features a collection of Japanese and international ceramics dating to as early as the 19th century. It is located in Ceramic Park MINO, designed by the architect Arata Isozaki. Ceramic even finds its way into places like the ceiling and outer walls. They put effort into art education and frequently hold a variety of workshops mainly dealing with ceramics. They also hold gallery talks by curators as well as unique regular planned exhibits.

陶都多治見のセラミックパークMINO内にある美術館です。世界の近現代の陶芸アートが見られ、また1〜2ヶ月サイクルで企画展も入れ替わるようなので良いと思います。建物自体もセンスが感じられますし、年に何度か訪れたいと思います。
Feather Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Sekishi Hinodemachi 1-17

Ten minutes by car from Seki Interchange on the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway, this is the world's first blade museum exhibiting precision cutlery and razor blades. It's run by Feather, a razor blade manufacturer. They have a collection of more than 10,000 items on display, including their Giant Feather razor in the entrance hall. Everyone from kids to adults enjoy the museum, with quizzes and pictures, a precision blade corner, a whole wall full of razor art, and a display on the company's product history.

We have a great time visiting feather museum. Very interesting exhibition, beautiful product exhibition along a timeline and a lot of interactive booth:you can for instance learn the different types...
Mizunami Fossil Museum

4.0

25 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Mizunamishi Akiyochou Yamanouchi 1-47

This museum specializing in rare fossils from around Japan is approximately three minutes by car from the Chuo Expressway's Mizunami Interchange. They exhibit a collection of over 250,000 fossils that help you learn about the Earth's 4.6-billion-year history, including about 1,500 fossil shellfish, fish, mammals, and plants from around the Mizunami area. Among them is a restored skeleton of a desmostylus, a kind of the dinosaur. Their Mizuanmi Fossil Workshop has fossil collecting and model making programs. Bookings are required, and you need to bring certain tools yourself.

瑞浪自然公園内にある博物館で、化石が沢山埋もれている地域なので盛りだくさんの展示物があります。展示内容は旧態依然としたものなので、一度見れば満足できて、再訪しても目新しい感じはないでしょう。
Magome Wakihonjin Museum

3.5

25 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Magome 4253-1

This is a historical archive in Magome, Nakatsugawa City. The building is a reproduction of Wakihonjin (a residence owned by a local influencer offered as lodgings) Yawataya in Magome-juku which was destroyed in a great fire in 1895 and exhibits archives of household effects of the time and visitors can learn about the culture of the Kisoji district in the Edo period.

本陣や脇本陣というのは、江戸時代、身分の高い人たちのお宿だったところです。馬籠宿の脇本陣は、明治２８年の馬籠宿の大火で建物は消失しました。この馬籠脇本陣史料館は、当時の脇本陣の一部を復元したものです。建物の雰囲気とともに、当時使用していた家具や什器もたくさん展示されていて、当時の文化も含めて見学することができました。
Utsue Shijuhattaki Falls (Utsue Shijuhattaki Falls Prefectural Nature Park)

4.0

33 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kokufuchoutsue

The collective term for 13 waterfalls located in a nature park a 15 minute drive from JR Hida-Kokufu Station along Prefectural Route 479. The name of the falls is derived from a local tale known as the “Legend of Yosohachi.” A highly secluded area, visitors can enjoy the sight of the 18.8 meter tall Otaki falls and other waterfalls splashing down rocky walls amidst seasonal scenery. This scenery has been selected in a variety of lists of Japan’s most beautiful locations, including the 100 best examples of natural scenery to preserve in the 21st century, Gifu Prefecture’s 50 most beautiful water areas, and the 33 most beautiful locals to enjoy fall foliage in the Hida-Mino area. There is a campground and hot spring bathhouse nearby, and the stone paved path leading to the falls makes it easy even for families with children to enjoy the gorgeous views.

Wonderful place next to Takayama. Take train to Hida Kokufu station, outside the station take a free bus to the falls. The bus goes up at 10:08 13:38 and 14:40. The bus stop is opposite to a...
Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry

4.5

32 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Kakamigaharashi Kawashimatakehayamachi 1

Located 25 minutes away from JR Owari-Ichinomiya Station by taxi, this pharmaceutical museum is inside Eisai’s Kawashima Plant. It runs various exhibits related to pharmaceuticals including the history of medicine and pharmacology. You can also see precious items such as human-powered pharmaceutical production machinery, signboards, advertisements and Meiji period (1868-1912) medicine. Because there are English explanation panels and captions, even foreign tourists can enjoy and learn. In addition, in the temporary exhibition room, they hold special exhibits introducing materials with themes based on what the curators have researched every year. It is a great place not only for adults, but for children’s research projects.

エーザイが経営していて無料で見れる。薬の歴史やこどもたちを連れて行ったらよい。外は薬草の畑があり日常の生活に沿ったものが見れる。
MALera Gifu

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Motosushi Mitsuhashi 1100

MALera Gifu is a shopping mall of approximately 200 shops, including clothes, boutique, and food shops, as well as restaurants and entertainment facilities. The large shopping center is home to popular fast fashion brands and with fun events held from time to time it’s a great place for both adults and children. Charging points for electric cars are also available in the parking lot.
Mino-Washi Akari Art Gallery

4.5

31 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Minoshi Motozumichou 1901-3

This art gallery is located a 15-minute walk from Nagaragawa Railway Minoshi Station, and exhibits the Mino City’s prize-winning autumn “Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibit.” Inside the gallery, a town with udatsu walls (good for fire protection and symbolizing wealth) is reproduced in a soft and warm light through Mino washi (traditional Japanese paper). Although the work cannot be touched, you are free to take photographs. There is also a museum shop lined with highly artistic lanterns. The wooden two-stories building is a nationally registered tangible cultural property since it is a valuable structure that is as it was in the early Showa era (1926-1989).

A MUST when in Mino. It is very beautiful. An exhibition of many lanterns and paper craft. It was my second visit here.
Hiroshige Museum of Art, Ena

4.0

29 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Enashi Oichou 176-1

Located only a three-minute walk south of JR Ena Station, this museum houses works of the world-famous ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa Hiroshige. Most of the collection consists of woodblock print ukiyo-e such as “The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido” of his mature period, and the exhibits change nearly every month. In the Ukiyo-e Navi Room, a permanent installation, visitors can learn all about woodblock prints in an enjoyable way. An especially popular feature is the “Make Your Own Woodblock Print” corner, where visitors can use fake plates and apply layers of stamp ink to make their own woodblock print to take home.

Really cool museum! Three blocks from Ena train station. Inexpensive entrance fee. The historic woodcut prints on display are both beautiful and intriguing. BUT WAIT, theres more, lots more. You...
Nawa Insect Museum

4.0

29 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Gifushi Omiyachou 2-18 within Gifu Park

This insect museum in Gifu City, Gif Prefecture is the oldest museum of its kind still in existence. Founded in 1919, the museum is affiliated with the Nawa Insect Research Center established by Yasushi Nawa, who famously discovered the Gifu butterfly (Luehdorfia japonica). The museum possesses more than 300,000 specimens representing 12,000 varieties of insect from around the world. The museum also breeds and researches a variety of insects. The museum is still located in its original western-style Meiji-era building, a registered tangible cultural property. The museum is located a short bus trip headed towards Nagara from either JR Gifu Station or Meitetsu Gifu Station and a two-minute walk from the Gifu Koen Rekishihakubutsukanmae bus stop.

岐阜公園内にある、民営の昆虫博物館。建物は大正7年1918年着工で、国の登録有形文化財に指定されています。展示はバッタやアゲハやカブトムシなど身近なものから、世界中の貴重な昆虫が2フロアに展示されています。こんなに大きな昆虫がいるのか、こんな美しい蝶がいるのか、と改めて自然の大事さなどを考えさせてくれます。おすすめです。
Science World (Gifu Prefectural Advanced Science & Technology Experience Center)

4.0

28 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Mizunami-shi Akiyocho Togari 54

An interactive, activity-oriented science museum, one of only a few in the country, located a 10-minute drive from the Mizunami Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. The museum has very few exhibits, and instead visitors can deepen their interest and understanding of science while having fun participating in the various experiments and creation events the museum holds. Enjoy a variety of experiments and experiences like the museum's hour long science shows combining images projected on a big screen with experiments performed on a stage, and special workshops where you can enjoy an experiment show conducted right in front of your eyes. The museum also holds public courses through which you can explore science more deeply.

サイエンスワールドは巨大な科学館です。コロナの影響でイベントは全て中止、開店休業で他に来訪者はおりませんでしたが、理科の実験を観察するようなコーナーがあり、建物が広く開放感が有りました。入口付近に目の錯覚を起こす絵がたくさん有り、同じ長さなのに、どちらかの線が長く見えるようなものですが、観察しました。
Mino-Washi Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Minoshi Warabi 1851-3

This museum is located about 20 minutes from the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway Mino Interchange via National Route 156 and Prefectural Route 81. The museum introduces from various perspectives the world of Shisai style paper patchwork, with its traditions and hidden possibilities for the future, and history and techniques of Mino washi traditional Japanese paper passed down in the Mino area. The first exhibition room introduces the production areas of washi paper throughout Japan, history of washi, and papermaking technology. In the second exhibition room, they give concrete suggestions about practical uses of washi paper in everyday living spaces. In addition, you can also have a “papermaking experience” using authentic tools and natural ingredients in the workshop.

Nice Museum located in Mino City, Gifu Prefecture. But i think it should have more papers and paper exhibits on display. They had very few.
Hida no Sato

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamiokamotomachi 1-590

This facility is located close to the Hida no Sato bus stop, about a 10-minute ride on the Sarubobo Bus from JR Takayama Station. This open air museum consists of Hida no Sato, a removed and restored old valuable kominka (old house) with a gassho (large thatched roof) style, and its sister facility Folk Village. In the museum, there are 30 kominka, representative of Hida, and they form the landscape of an old agricultural mountain village. Each kominka exhibits old everyday tools, and there are demonstrations of straw craft and Hida quilted clothes. Sangaku Museum in the Folk Village displays historical materials of mountain climbing, and plant and animal specimens.
Enakyo Wonderland

3.5

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nakatsugawa shi Gifu prefecture Nokokawa 5735-209

At Enakyo Wonderland, the whole family can enjoy a great day out, with a wide range of attractions and craft activities; many of the attractions are suitable for toddlers (with parental supervision). The pirate-themed “Caribbean” water-park (which is only open in the summer), which has lots of fun activities for both adults and children, including water-slides and an adventure playground, is especially popular. Enakyo Wonderland is located around eight minutes’ drive from the Ena Interchange of the Chuo Expressway.

小さなローカルな遊園地といった感じです。小さい子供がいたら、空いているしそれなりにたのしめるとおもいますが、大人がいってもあまり面白くはないです。ちょっと廃れていますし、、公園がわりに子供と行く感じです。
Art & Festa Forest in TAKAYAMA

3.5

10 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Chishimamachi 1111

This museum dedicated to the Takayama Festival is located a 20-minute drive from Takayama Nishi Interchange on the Tokai Hokuriku Expressway. The museum’s underground dome, which was created by excavating the mountain’s slope, houses a number of exhibits. These include the Heisei Yatai, eight festival floats created from scratch for the first time in 150 years, and interactive marionette exhibit, and the world’s largest taiko drum. Once a year in spring, all of the festival floats are set up in the parking lot, where visitors can enjoy marionette shows performed atop the floats, taiko drum performances, and more. The adjacent Insect Collection of the World features exhibits including specimen of insects from around the world including Japanese Luehdorfia butterflies.

他の方も大体そうかと思いますが、バスツアー利用で食事です。飛騨牛が美味しいのは流石です。自身の参加ではなかったですが、飛騨牛の食べ放題利用とかもあるようです。お肉だけではなく、お米も美味しかったのが印象的です。
Gifu Prefectural Museum

3.5

14 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Sekishi Oyana 1989 (in Gifu prefecture 100 year park)

This museum is operated by Gifu Prefecture. It consists of a main building with items on display and My Museum with planned exhibits and a hall. The permanent exhibition has a Humanity Room with displays on life from long ago to the present day, and a Nature Room with exhibits on natural evolution and the local environment. They hold events as well as lectures and workshops in their hall and field trips to observe nature at the surrounding parks.

職場の利用者を連れて遠足で行きました。あまり歩けない子達が多かったのですが、事前に連絡していたら、博物館のすぐ近くまで、車で行かせてもらえました。

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Gifu Areas

Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.