Wetland / Marshland Spots in Gifu Area

  • Nemichi Shrine
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Sekishi Itadori On the Shimane Road 448
    Nemichi Shrine sits in an area surrounded by lush vegetation. The main enshrined deities are Nemichi Okami, Izanami no Mikoto, Oyamatsumi no Kami, and Kanayamabiko no Kami. The spring festival is held in April and the autumn festival is held in October. Beside the main gate to the shrine is a small pond nicknamed Monet’s Pond. So called because it resembles Claude Monet’s water lilies. The place has become particularly well known on the internet and consequently attracts visitors to the shrine almost daily.
  • Tsurugaike Pond
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Takayama-shi Nyukawacho
    A small pond on the way to Mt. Daikoku and Mt. Fujimidake, just east of the Tatamidaira parking lot, named for the lake's surface that looks like a crane when seen from above. On a clear day, Yarigatake, the main peak of the Northern Alps, can be seen beyond the pond.
  • Namonakike
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Sekishi Itadori
  • Gotan Pond
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Yoro-gun Yorocho
  • Hosoike Pond
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Yoro-gun Yorocho
  • Asahi Reservoir
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Takayama-shi

Gifu Areas

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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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