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Toson Memorial Museum

3.5

42 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Magome 4256-1

This is a memorial hall for literary master Toson Shimazaki, active from the Meiji to Showa periods, and is located in Magome-juku, Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture. Built on the site of the Toson household, the designated daimyo inn of Magome-juku, 5,000 items including documents, scripts and personal effects donated by oldest son Kusuo Shimazaki have been collected and displayed. Among these, highlights include the handwritten manuscripts of “Wakanashu”, “Yoake Mae”, “Arashi”, and his last work Toho-no-Mon”. His Oiso Town, Kanagawa Prefecture study where he spent his final days has been restored, and through the displays one can learn about the author’s whole life.

As my major was literature, I am interested in Toson’s novels. This is one of the reasons why I visited Magome. If you don’t know him, you had better to read his works first. Then, your visit will be...
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。
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。
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...
Naegi Toyama Historical Museum

4.0

17 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Naegi 2897-2

This Museum is located in the city of Nakatsugawa in Gifu Prefecture, dedicated to preserving and publicizing the cultural legacy of the feudal Naegi domain. Concentrating on the time period from the Middle Ages, Sengoku Warring States Period to early Meiji Period, and especially the Naegi Toyama family, it contains valuable materials related to the Naegi domain and Naegi Castle. The varied exhibits include armor handed down through the Toyama family, writings by the military leader Takeda Shingen, and letters of appointment to the governorship of Naegi. Volunteer guides show visitors around the ruins of Naegi Castle, including the base of the tower along the Kiso River and the gates, while explaining their origin and history.

続日本100名城スタンプはこちらの入口向かって左横に出ている。スタンプだけが目当てであれば入場する必要はないが、せっかくなので、城跡に登城する前に多少の入場料を払ってでも見ておいても良いと思う。ただ、所謂歴史民俗資料館と大差がないのはたしか。
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.
Ogaki City Folk Museum

3.5

31 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Ogaki-shi Marunouchi 2-4

"This museum opened on October 9th, 1985 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of Toda (who became lord of the Ogaki Domain) entering the castle. It exhibits historical materials related to Ogaki in honor of former Ogaki lord Toda. The main exhibited items include materials related to Lord Toda, a picture folding screen of the battle at Sekigahara (reproduction), and Ogaki festival ""Chosen Yama"" materials."

大垣駅から歩いて大垣城をみて、その近くにあります。新春凧展が開催されていて色々な凧がありました。また、館内には人が少なくゆっくりと観ることができました◯
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。
Zenshoji Temple

4.5

22 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Gero-shi Hagiwaracho Churo 1089

A 5-minute walk from Zenjoji Station on the JR Takayama Line, this Zen temple of the Myoshinji school of the Rinzai sect was founded in the Heian period (794-1185) and is one of the ten oldest temples in Japan, boasting a magnificent architecture in the Chinese Song Dynasty style. There are also many attractions such as a large cedar over 1,200 years old, designated as a national natural treasure, and a plum tree hand-planted by an imperial envoy.

いとこ夫婦と一緒に、下呂温泉から数キロ北にある禅昌寺を訪れました。無料の駐車スペースあり。紅葉の時期はとっくに過ぎていましたが、境内ではもみじやカエデなどはまだ赤く色付いていました。参道に降り積もった紅葉の葉がひっそりとした雰囲気を作っていました。参拝客は数人程度で心静かに散策するにはちょうど良かったです。特に、庭園や鐘撞堂の周りに立つもみじなどの紅葉は素晴らしかったです。
Tanigumisan Kegonji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Ibigunibigawachou Tanigumitokudumi 23

Tanigumisan Kegonji Temple located at the end of Prefectural Route 251, Tanigumitokuzumi, Ibigawa Town is a temple which was established in 798. It is the 33rd pilgrim stamp office for the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage. Since being granted names for a mountain and a temple by Emperor Daigo, it has attracted worshippers for about 1,200 years, and has been affectionately called Tanigumisan as a temple for fulfilling and completing a goal. It is also known as a famous place for cherry blossoms and fall foliage.
Chisui-jinja Shrine

3.5

23 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Kaizu-shi Kaizucho Aburajima

A shrine dedicated to the loyal retainers of the Satsuma domain who undertook flood control work on the orders of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the middle Edo period. Since ancient times, the Nobi Plain has seen damage from the of the Kiso, Nagara, and Ibi rivers that run through it. The Satsuma domain during the period was the next most powerful in Japan besides the Edo Shogunate, and they completed the work they were given with great sacrifice. The shrine honors the deified form of the head of the project, Hirata Yukie Masasuke Ushi-no-Mikoto. Today, the shrine participates in various programs linking Gifu and Kagoshima. It's also known for improving the love luck of patrons.

木曽川、長良川、揖斐川と大きな川を治水工事を行った薩摩隼人はスゴイ。江戸時代の治水工事の技術で大きな犠牲を払ったことを後世に伝えている。
Honko-ji Temple

3.5

23 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Hidashi Furukawachouninomachi 1-17

The Honko-ji Temple is a temple belonging to the Hongan-ji sect of the Jodo Shinshu School of Buddhism, located in Hida City, Gifu Prefecture. The temple is renowned as one of the finest in the Hida region thanks to its magnificent Hon-do main hall (made almost entirely from Japanese Cypress wood), Shoro (bell tower), and San-mon (main gate). The Honko-ji Temple is one of the temples visited in the Hida Furukawa Three Temples Pilgrimage, an important winter event in the Hida-Furukawa region that takes place on January 15 every year. On this day, the banks of the Setogawa River and the historic streets are lined with around one thousand traditional Japanese-style candles and large “snow candles”; in this magical atmosphere, pilgrims visit and pray at first the Honko-ji Temple, then the Enko-ji Temple and the Shinshu-ji Temple.

飛騨古川の古い町並みの中にあるお寺。飛騨古川の三寺まいりのひとつで、最も大きなお寺です。山門も本堂もとても立派なものです。
Jionzenji Temple

4.0

17 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Gujo-shi Hachimancho Shimadani 339

This Myoshinji Rinzai Zen temple is also known as Tessoen. It was founded in 1606 by Endo Yoshitaka, who built Gujo Hachiman Castle. The principal object of worship is Shaka Nyorai. Yakushi Nyorai, Benzaiten, Ususama Myoo, and Kanzeon Bosatsu are also enshrined. Tessoen is the temple's inner garden, a magnificent Muromachi period garden at the foot of Mt. Todoyama that incorporates huge rocks. Visitors enjoy the changing seasons with flowers in the spring, vibrant greenery in the summer, colorful autumn leaves, and the snowy winter grounds.

郡上八幡駅から徒歩25分ほど。郡上八幡のメインの観光スポットとは吉田川を挟んだ反対側にある。 1606年創建の臨済宗妙心寺派の寺院。正式な寺号は「慈恩護国禅寺」。本尊は釈迦如来。現本堂は1896年再建で木造銅板葺き。市指定名勝の池泉回遊式庭園「荎草園」(てっそうえん)は拝観料500円。和室に座って眺める庭園は趣きがあり、心落ち着く時間を過ごすことができる。次は紅葉の時期に訪れてみたい。
Eishoji Temple

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Magome 5358

This temple has a long history and is said to have been established in 1558 and is also said to be the model for ‘Manpuku-ji Temple” which appears in Shimazaki Toson’s novel “Before the Dawn”. The temple is available as a place to stay, a place to try Buddhist vegetarian food and experience Zazen meditation. The wooden statue of the sitting Amida Nyorai, the wooden standing Sho Kanon statue, and the Shomen Kongo Pagoda in the precincts are designated as Nakatsugawa city cultural property.

This temple is not on the Main Street of Magome, but it is easy to find, since there is an indication. It is a quiet place without being disturbed by tourists. There is a grave of Toson’s family.

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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.