Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Gifu Area

  • Amidagatakiso
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Shirotorichoumaedani Shelf 1106 - 1 - 2
    A nagashi somen flowing noodles restaurant a 20 minute drive from the Shiratori Interchange and near Amidagataki Falls, a waterfall selected as one of the 100 most beautiful in Japan. This area is famous as being the place where nagashi somen was invented, and here you can enjoy this fun and tasty dish surrounded by lush forest. The restaurant’s springy noodles are set adrift on slides filled with ice cold flowing spring water for diners to catch; when you’ve got some noodles in hand, dip them in the restaurant’s special tsuyu sauce, made with mountain wasabi, before eating. The restaurant’s system is all-you-can-eat until you run out of dipping sauce. The restaurant also serves char grilled with salt shioyaki style, and roasted dango rice cake skewers. The restaurant is open every day from May to September and continues to operate until around mid-October.

    流しそうめんの元祖が岐阜にあるらしい、え?宮崎とかじゃ?と出かけて見ました。 てっきり竹樋を高低差を付けて流れてくるのだと思っていました。 石樋を冷たい水が流れ、その水にのってそうめんが流れてきました。 そうめんは食べ放題ですが、良く水をきって汁につけないと、すぐに薄まってしまうので注意が必要です。 夏を感じられるスポットです。

  • Ganso Nagashi Somen Kamagataki Takichaya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Minamichoukamita
    This tea shop located in Kamagataki on the way up Mt. Kataji from National Route 156 was opened in 1964. They are the original place where you can enjoy authentic nagashi-somen (flowing wheat noodles). The somen noodles are all-you-can-eat and come with a bowl of tsuyu noodle dipping soup. Because it is near a waterfall, one of its draws is that it feels cool even in the summer. There is also a fishing spot where you can fish for trout, and you can even salt-grill the fish you catch there. In addition, they also offer an extensive menu with items such as salt-grilled natural trout and uniquely-developed gohei-mochi (pressed rice grilled on skewers topped with miso bean paste). Everyone from children to adults can enjoy the country taste.
  • Itadori River Horado Kanko Yana
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Sekishi Horadokosaka 1712
    Located about a 20-minute drive from the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway Mino Interchange, this restaurant boasts its exquisite dishes using sweetfish raised in the clear streams of the Itadori River. You can taste courses or dishes of fresh sweetfish caught with the traditional fishing method of “yana,” where sweetfish from upstream are caught with slatted wood in the river. With a multitude of cooking methods from salt-grilled to boiled, miso-broiled, rice porridge, fried and sashimi, you can even cook it yourself. Trap fishing is allowed usually from August 1st, and tourists can experience it as long as there are no dangers such as floods. You can also enjoy fishing in the fishing pond and playing in the river.

    何回か通ったことがあるヤナですが次回は違う店に行くと思います。 今回も悩んだのですが急きょ決め時間も遅かったために訪れました。 新型コロナウイルスの対策らしく店内ではマスク着用、受付でアルコール消毒と検温をしなくてはいけないらしいのですが… 時間が遅かったためか受付にはだれもいないため店内に入っていったらすごい剣幕でおばちゃんが検温とマスクをしてもらわないと困る! 旦那はご飯を食べるからいいかと...

  • Jinenjo Chacha Jinen no Mura (Hida Takayama Store)
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    4.0
    48 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Nyukawachouboukata 1064-1
    This mountain yam restaurant is rare even for Japan, and is located approximately a 15-minute drive from Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway and Chubu-Jukan Expressway Takayama Interchange or JR Takayama Station. Situated inside the kominka (old house) called “Gassho no Yakata,” reconstructing the gassho (large thatched roof) style of “Jinen no Mura,” you can taste local cuisine using local ingredients in a space filled with nostalgia and the warmth of wood. Their most popular menu item is the “tororo-meshi,” which has the flavor of yams seasoned with dashi (Japanese soup stock) and local Hida-grown koshihikari rice that taste excellent together. Seasonal flavors such as their Hida beef hoba-miso (miso grilled on magnolia leaf) course are also recommended.

    ある団体旅行で二日目の昼食に寄りました。座敷に用意してあり、大きなすり鉢に自然薯がいっぱいありました。麦の混ざったご飯を少し盛り、自然薯をたっぷりかけて食べます。そばもあり、途中で自然薯をかけて食べました。

  • Yoroken Main Shop
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Kamogunkawabechou Shimokawabe 273-1
    This Japanese sweets shop opened in 1993 and is located in Kawabe Town, Kamo County, Gifu Prefecture. Including the fruits daifuku (red bean paste-filled mochi), stuffed with homemade bean paste and cream using red beans Miyabi from Hokkaido’s Tokachi region and select fruit, they develop products such as “Marugoto Kyoho no Daifuku” and “Kuri Kinton Daifuku” every season. Their year-round product “Tappuri Cream no Nama-dorayaki” has various flavors from milk bean paste to cheese, and a milk chocolate one with chocolate mixed into the batter.

    餡カフェで美味しくモーニングいただき、スイーツもいただいたのですが、隣店舗の大福販売店で、カラコンつけた背の低い女店員が、商品説明の嘘を堂々と言い放ち、大福選んでる最中に背中を向けていたり、挙げ句のはてにはゴールドカードで決済した後に、早く帰れ的な下品な指さばきでカードを押し返し、こんなカードの返却の仕方初めてでした。 不愉快すぎます。 マナー接遇きちんち教育しないと お客様みんな不愉快ですよ...

  • Nodoka-no-ajimidokoro Miyachika
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Minamichoukamita 2525
    This restaurant, where you can taste fresh sweetfish caught in traps and regional Gujo cuisine, boasts its “Gujo Ayu” sweetfish brand, number one in Japan, and is located in the Minami Town, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. It comes complete with air-conditioning, handicap-accessible facilities, and private rooms that provide a personal space. The interior of the store with its large glass windows feels amazingly spacious, and you can enjoy the taste of various sweetfish such as sashimi, salt-grilled, glazed , fried and porridge while making yourself feel at home. In addition, you can also see how they use trap fishing for sweetfish from mid-August to October.

    It was Feb. 28, 2018, we drove a long way from Gifu to visit this place and found it was not opened. Perhaps it was our own mistake not to confirm their business days and hours before making the...

  • Maruhachi Shokudo
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    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Mimayano 139
    This restaurant sells “Keichan”, a local specialty of Gifu Prefecture. It is located close to National Route 257 heading for Butai Pass. Keichan is seasoned chicken grilled with cabbage and other vegetables, and is said to have originated from Jingisukan (grilled mutton) cuisine. Their most popular menu item is the “Keichan set” that has a traditional taste going back more than 50 years. Cooking it yourself is what makes it distinctive, and there is also a detailed manual for first-timers. The rich chicken flavor goes well with rice and also great as a snack with sake. The store is very popular with locals as well as tourists.

    下呂温泉からは少し離れてるけどまた戻りました とても美味しかったです 服に匂いがつくかも 焼肉屋と同じ感じでおしゃれしていかないほうが良いです マイエプロン持参か 沢山お客さんが来てました

  • Chicory Village
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    4.0
    56 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Sendambayashi 1-15
    A tourist attraction and educational facility dedicated to eating, buying, and learning about natural food owned and operated by the Saladacosmo company and located a three minute drive from the Nakatsugawa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. The facility consists of a farm which grows chicory, a brewery which crafts Chico Chico chicory shochu, a shop, and the Barbarzu Dining restaurant. Visitors can tour the farm and brewery. The facility’s restaurant serves homemade dishes in buffet style designed around the concept of local production for local consumption crafted with local, seasonal agricultural products by local farmer’s wives—this eatery is so popular, wait times can be quite long on weekends.

    Many kind of natural vegitables, therw are all awesome tastes! 8-9 And all staffs are kindly for us and explain well.

  • Kinchouen Sohonke (Ogaki Station Front Main Shop)
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    4.0
    69 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Takayachou 1-17
    This long-established Japanese sweets shop has been operated for over 200 years. Their famous item is “Kinchouen Manju,” steamed buns of sweetened bean paste rinsed with Ogaki’s famous water and wrapped in Japanese sake yeast buns. They faithfully continue to make the confectionery using a 150 year-old recipe. Another one is mizu-manju (sweetened bean paste stuffed in kudzu starch jelly), made using plenty of Ogaki’s famous water. The shop displays them not in a glass showcase but in water, selling them in a cool atmosphere. You can also eat the sweets in the cafe area inside the store.

    Kinchoen is a famous confiserie in Ogaki, and it has already more than 150 years’ history. The historical building of this house is quite remarkable. I went to buy Mizu-Manju, but they said it was...

  • Mochiso
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ogakishi Kuruwamachi 1-61
    This traditional Japanese sweets shop located in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture is south of Ogaki Station, to the side of Ogaki Park after crossing the Shin-Ohashi Bridge. The mizu-manju that the shop has made since its founding in 1862 have a transparent jelly outside and packed with red bean paste. In particular, the “mizu-mangori” sold only in the summer are a popular product, and is mizu-manju covered in pure white ice and topped with syrup. In addition, they also have monaka (thin crisp mochi wafers) and sable so you can enjoy crispy Japanese and Western taste, and new products such as mochi filled with heavy cream that is matcha-flavored or a summer-only lime flavor.

    お餅を買いに行ってきました。季節の和菓子も種類多く、お赤飯もとても美味しいのでオススメです。行くたびに新しいお菓子が増えています。

  • Masago Soba
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Uramachi 31-3
  • Kawakamiya (Main Shop)
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    4.5
    48 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Honmachi 3-1-8
    This veteran Japanese confectionery has been making sweets with a nod to the seasons in Nakatsugawa since 1864. Their confections with domestic chestnut are especially famous, and their chestnut and mashed sweet potato kurikinton sold from autumn to winter is recommended. Carefully cooked chestnuts are added to the chunky sweet potatoes along with sugar, and then squeezed through a tea cloth. This leaves its natural pale-yellow color and the rich aroma of chestnuts that people love. Year-round sellers are also popular, including their “Ureshi-no-Kuri, made with large chestnuts prepared their own special way that maintains their fragrance and flavor.

    ちょうど8月25日から新栗の栗きんとんが発売されたばかりの、9月2日に立ち寄って、栗きんとんをはじめ栗菓子を3種類かって帰った。やっぱりここのが美味しい!

  • Kawaramachi Izumiya
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    4.5
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Motohamachou 20
    This restaurant in the historic district of Kawaramachi is on a bank of the Nagaragawa River, famous for cormorant fishing. It specializes in ayu sweetfish cuisine. Their salt grilled ayu carefully cooked over Kishu binchotan charcoal is so soft you can eat it from head to tail, including the bones. Their Ayu Ramen topped with sun-dried and flaked sweetfish is a local favorite. If you put rice in the last of the broth, you can enjoy it even further as “ayu-zosui. Their salt grilled ayu and bamboo leaf rolled sushi are available for takeout and good for bringing with you on the boat to view cormorant fishing. Evening reservations are required during cormorant fishing season.

    After a morning walk around Gifu Park and Gifu Castle, i went to Kawaramachi Izumiya - about 5 minutes walk away for lunch. A nice cosy place to try the Ayu fish. The chef provided me a pictorial in...

  • Ayuya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Sekishi Horadoabe 1522-3
    Located on the banks of the Itadori River, about a 30-minute drive from the Seki-Hiromi and Mino Interchanges, Ayuya is a restaurant that specializes in ayu (sweetfish). It has a great location close to famous places like Koga Shinsui-an and Monet's Pond. In addition to serving daily specials throughout the year, it has four types of complete dinners from mid April to November, with Course C being the most popular. In the fall, diners can enjoy sweetfish cooked with its roe inside. Seats on a terrace overlooking the river are available, with a roof that can be retracted or not, depending on the weather. Guests who make reservations have priority for these seats.

    鮎がどうしても食べたくなり、色々検索し「鮎や」さんに来ました! ここは板取川のほとりにある鮎専門の料理屋で、今回はコロナ禍ということもあり限定料理のみ営業でしたが食べに来ちゃいました! お店に着くとスタッフのおばちゃんからあじさいコース2950円と日替り定食980円のみと言われ日替り定食+鮎の塩焼きは1660円と少し迷いましたが鮎料理を堪能したかったのであじさいコースを頼むと川床で...

  • Minokanko Yana
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Minoshi Maeno 15-1
    This restaurant specializing in sweet fish located on the bank of the Nagara River is a five-minute drive from the Mino Interchange on the Meishin Expressway. Guests can enjoy fresh sweet fish, which are caught in traditional slatted wood fish traps as they swim downstream, prepared in a variety of ways. We recommend the sweet fish full course, which starts with an assortment of three appetizers (sweet fish nanbanzuke, candied sweet fish, and sweet fish shiokara) before moving on to sweet fish sashimi, salt-grilled sweet fish, miso-baked sweet fish, and fried sweet fish before finishing with a sweet fish rice gruel. The wheelchair accessible restaurant is open seven days a week during the sweet fish fishing season, which runs from early May to the beginning of November.

    今回で3回目、毎年伺います。一番はアクセスの良さ。以前は奥三河の寒サ川へ 子供の川遊びがてら出かけていました。 今は子供も成人し、独立、帰省した折、この季節に簡単に食べられるのが気に入っています。 繁忙期は他の方の口コミにお料理は鮎のコース一択しか頼めないとありましたが、繁忙期や日曜日を避けていたのか(無意識に)、私達は毎回 子供は鮎のコースで、私と主人はシェアで1つの鮎のコース、あとは好きなも...

  • Kyoya restaurant
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    4.5
    403 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Oushinmachi 1-77
    Kyoya is a restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that offers delicious local cuisine made using Hida beef and other local ingredients, as well as seasonal delicacies. Kyoya is located in a traditional house that was specially relocated to the site from the Echigo (Niigata) region, giving it a fascinating retro-style ambience; as diners pass through the entrance curtain, they are greeted with the sight of huge beams that create a friendly, welcoming space. Seated around Irori (hearths constructed in the floor), diners can enjoy steak or sukiyaki made from high-quality Hida beef, Shabu-shabu hotpot, a wide range of other top-notch dishes, and local Sake brands. Kyoya is also a convenient place to drop in for lunch, with a lunch menu featuring a wide range of set meals such as “Hida Takayama Go-zen (Gourmet) Meal” and “Hida Beef Yakishabu (thinly-sliced beef marinated in a delicious sauce) Set Meal.” Kyoya is situated around 15 minutes’ walk from Takayama Station on the JR Takayama Line.

    Our sons ate here years ago and encouraged us to give it a try. We are so glad we did! The beef was amazing, the interior authentic and the staff friendly. My 200g A5 steak was the best dish I ate...

  • Guruman Vital Tarui Main Shop
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    4.0
    34 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Fuwaguntaruichou Miyashiro 441
    This is a bakery & pastry shop adjoining a bread factory and workshop, and a farm all together on an expansive area along National Route 21. At this shop, over 150 types of varieties of handmade breads are made here, in which only domestic ingredients are used. Not only can customers buy bread to take home, but one of the attractions is that one can enjoy the bread there at the eat-in space or at outdoor cafe tables. In addition to the everyday popular breads, many new breads and pastry creations by the pastry chef are for sale along with cheeses and wines. At the adjoining cafe, Bellwood, breads and pizzas are the main items offered.

    Um local muito aconchegante, bom pra curtir uma boa comida e um ambiente muito bom, com um cardápio variado , com área pra quem tem pet.

  • Enakawa Kamiya Enakyo Store
    Shopping
    Gifu Ena-shi Oicho 2632-105
    "This is a Japanese and Western sweets store that makes and sells kurikinton (pureed sweet chestnuts), a fall time treat that has long been loved by all kinds of cultured people such as travelers, waka poets and haiku poets visiting the Nakasendo post town. They use a brand chestnut ""Choicest Ena Chestnuts"" grown by local contract farmers, and have been making sweets that adapt to the trends and needs of the age. To make their most popular sweet ""Kurikinton,"" a prided masterpiece, carefully selected chestnuts are steamed with a little bit of sugar, and are then squeezed out carefully one by one. It is a local confectionery with a fun simple texture that will warm you from the inside. ""Four Season Kurikinton"" that reflect the colors of the four seasons, and ""Yamamatayama,"" a grilled manju (steamed cake) with chunky azuki bean paste inside are also popular."
  • Train Bleu
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    4.0
    77 Reviews
    Shopping
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Nishinoisshikimachi 1-73-5
    The Train Bleu bakery, which attaches great importance to ensuring that ordinary bread is made as delicious as possible every day, is very popular with local residents. On weekends and public holidays, Train Bleu can get so crowded that it has to issue numbered tickets to customers. Besides basic, everyday breads, Train Bleu also sells first-class Viennoiserie (pastries); one especially popular product features seasonal fruit with cream on a delicate croissant base. The bakery closes when it is sold out for the day, so it’s best to get there early. Train Bleu is located around 20-minute drive from the Takayama Interchange of the Chubu Jukan Expressway.

    SO GOOD! We waited outside for 15 minutes to get in but worth the wait! So flaky and delicious. Everything is about 300 yen or more. Make sure to get the strawberry tart with fresh cream!

  • Keichan Suginoko
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Ogawa 1311
    Keichan is a regional dish from the Hida and Gero areas of Gifu Prefecture, and Suginoko is a great place to try it. The shop is five minutes south of JR Gero Station by car via Prefectural Route 440 along the Hida River, near the Masuda Highway overpass. Their superb keichan consists of chicken thigh meat cooked with cabbage and their secret sauce in a Genghis Kan grill pan. It goes great with rice and Japanese shochu, and we recommend finishing off the meal by mixing in fried yakisoba noodles. There are also a variety of other local dishes on their menu such as Gero’s konyaku gelatin sashimi and Hida beef grilled with miso.

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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.

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