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Hidatakayama Retro Museum

4.0

15 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Takayama-shi Shinmeimachi 4-7

We took our three kids (9, 13, 15) here last month and we all had a great time. It was a lot of fun for my husband and I to show our kids many of the games that we played as children and we all loved...
Enakyo Cruise (Ena Gorge Tour)

3.5

26 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Enashi Oichou Okudo 2709 - 104

Ena Gorge Cruise, which offers a choice of high-speed jet boats or traditional covered barges, takes passengers on a round trip to Shinanoji (“Three Squares”) Rock, the point at which the Tsukechi River flows into the Kiso River. Passengers can see rock formations looming over them on either side of the riverbank, including Battleship Rock, Lion Rock, Screen Rock, Three Squares Rock, and other oddly shaped rocks and stones, and watch migratory birds fly overhead. The embarkation point for these cruises is located about 10 minutes by car from the Ena Interchange on the Chuo Expressway.

Cheaper to buy the tickets online. Was an enjoyable 30 minutes excursion. As the boat cruises on, we saw white ripples created on the blue water as a result from our passing boat. Along the way, we...
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.
Hida Sannogu Hie Shrine

4.0

25 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shiroyama 156

Located approximately a 10-minute walk from the red Nakabashi Bridge that spans the Miya River, this shrine dedicated to Oyamakui no Kami sits at the southern foot of Mt. Shiroyama located in the center of the city. It has a long history of praying for the coming of the deity, and is said to have been built in 1141. It is famous for its annual spring Takayama Festival held every year on April 14 and 15. Of a pair of portable shrines made in 1816 that are both important cultural properties of Takayama City, one is housed in the shed of the main shrine, and the other is in the place where a sacred palanquin is enshrined in the Nakabashi rest station.

高山市街地の南東端にある神社で、春の高山祭りはこの神社の例大祭です。春の高山祭りては古い町並みにある一の鳥居から神社までの道路に絢爛豪華な12台の山車が並びます。また、恒例の御巡幸はこの神社からスタートします。今回は御巡幸が出ていって、人混みの減った時に参拝しました。森に囲まれた流石の大きな神社で、大きな楠のご神木や稲荷神社や天満宮もあります。
Usuzumi Park

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Motosushi Neoitasho Upper row 995

"An 80-minute drive from the Gifu-Hashima Interchange on the Meishin Expressway and a three-minute drive from the Motosu City Office Neo Branch Government Office. This park was built around the Usuzumi Zakura, a famous ancient cherry tree designated a National Natural Monument estimated to be more than 1,500 years old. ""Usuzumi Zakura"" translates to ""pale ink cherry tree,"" a name derived from the fact the tree appears to have been painted in pale black ink when its white blossoms fall. When the tree is in full bloom in early April, the area bustles with large numbers of visitors, and the tree is lit up at night with LED lights which do not hurt it. The tree has also been selected for inclusion in the Japan Top 100 Sakura Viewing Sites list."
Hommachi Oribe Street

3.0

36 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Tajimi Honmachi

"A retro townscape of merchant houses and warehouses built between the early Meiji and Showa eras, the 400-meter-long area is dotted with Mino ware stores, galleries, cafes, etc. It was created in an effort to incorporate the free and innovative ideas of Oribe Furuta, a warlord from Gifu Prefecture and a renowned tea master, into modern town development. The ""Ceramic City Creation Hall,"" located in the center of the town, offers a wide variety of ceramics, from traditional Mino ware to works by young ceramic artists."

多治見駅から徒歩15分ほど。多治見橋を渡ったあたりにあります。このあたりは明治から昭和初期にかけて、美濃焼の問屋が軒を並べ、多治見の商業の中心地として大いに栄えたところ。今でも大きな問屋や古いお店が軒を並べていて、名残があります。陶器屋さんや食事処も古民家を利用したりしており、風情があります。
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.
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...
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.
Bairin Park

4.0

43 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Gifushi Bairinminamimachi 1-1

This municipal park is in Gifu City. It's a well-known plum blossom spot with 50 varieties of plum trees including 700 white-blossomed plum trees and 600 red-blossomed plum trees. The best time to see them in bloom is from February to March. It has a large park area and a lawn where children can play. A D51 locomotive was donated to the park in 1974 for viewing and children's education. The Gifu Bairin Plum Festival is held annually on the first weekend in March, with a variety of plum related events.

Nice park during the sakura time, we get there just week before to start sakura. Theres a old train and you can jump in if you want. Good place to do picnic in a sunny day.
Tsukechikyo Kuraya Onsen Onpoi no Yu

4.0

19 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Tsukechichou 1929-1

This day-trip hot spring in Kakenagashi (not-recycled) style is situated in Tsukechi Gorge, a natural treasure trove filled with greenery located in the Tsukechi-cho, Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture. A simple alkaline hot spring (alkaline, hypotonic, high temperature), it is said to be effective for bruises, sprains and muscle pain. It has six different types of baths such as rock natural hot spring two level baths where you can enjoy open-air baths while bathing in the trees and the other four types of baths such as open-air cypress natural hot spring two level baths using extravagant Kiso Goki cypress wood. The baths alternate the first and 15th of every month between being men only and women only.

Onpoi no yu is a nice, little onsen in Gifu-ken at the begin of the japanese alps. I visited it many times. It is always clean and quite modern. There is a Sauna, some indoor and two outdoor pools...
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。
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...
Roadside Station Yashagaike no Sato Sakauchi

3.0

13 Reviews

Transportation

Gifu Pref. Ibigunibigawachou Sakauchihirose 306

Roadside Station Yashagaike no Sato Sakauchi is located at the western edge of Gifu Prefecture, on the border between Gifu and Shiga Prefectures. Surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers and favored with fresh air, it contains an information service, a restaurant, and a sales area where local agricultural, forest, and river products are available for purchase. The restaurant is unusual in featuring dishes made with ostrich meat, including ostrich roasted on a ceramic grill or the ostrich hamburger meal. In addition to enjoying delicious, low-fat, low-calorie ostrich meat, visitors can enjoy other flavors typical of the Sakauchi area, including sweet-sour, potassium-rich passion fruit.

福井県との県境にある夜叉ケ池にまつわる伝説の地である坂内地域にある道の駅で、自然資源が豊富な地域なので、野菜やジビエを活用した料理や特産品が名物です。レストランでの鹿肉料理がオススメです。
Shirasagi no Yu

4.0

27 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Gifu Pref. Geroshi Yunoshima 856-1

This hot spring is located approximately a 7-minute walk from JR Gero Station. A while building with a Romanesque-style, this bathing facility has long been popular with locals. You can relax in the hot springs while gazing out on the Hida River and the surrounding mountains from the inner baths of Japanese cypress. Because there is no shampoo, body soap or towels, you will need to prepare and bring them in advance or purchase them there. At the front of the building, there is a free footbath with a statue of Venus in the center, making it a place bustling with many tourists.

下呂温泉の共同浴場。洋風の外観です。入浴料は430円。下呂温泉は源泉を集中管理していて、その温泉を旅館などに給湯しているようです。加水、加温、循環、塩素投入でほとんど温泉の個性はなくなっています。ややぬるぬる感があります。
Kita-Alps Ohashi Bridge

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Okuhidaonsengounakao Shinho Hironaki

The Kita-Alps Ohashi Bridge, which is 150 meters long and 70 meters high, links the Shin-Hotaka Onsen and Nakao Highlands area with the Nabedaira resort area; it is a very popular spot for a scenic drive. There are spectacular views extending as far as Mt. Kasaga-dake; the scenery is especially beautiful in May, with the spring greenery, and around October, which is the autumn foliage season.
Roadside Station Hida-Kaido Nagisa

4.0

10 Reviews

Transportation

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kugunochounagisa 2685

This roadside station on the side of National Route 41 is located a 15-minute drive from JR Kuguno Station. A red turret (Jomon Symbol Tower) serves as a landmark for the station, which has as the dual themes of “Jomon” and “Harvest.” Its buildings, designed to look like Jomon pit houses, house a bakery that offers fresh-baked bread, a gelato shop, and a fruit juice factory. The station’s restaurant is popular for local flavors such as their healthy Jomon udon noodles and their ayumeshi (sweetfish rice), a winter exclusive made with wild-caught sweetfish. The farmer’s market is stocked with fresh, locally-harvested fruits and vegetables. Their winter-only apple pie is also popular.

高山市と下呂市の中間あたりの国道沿いに、道の駅飛騨街道なぎさがありました。館内には、この土地の特産品が並んでいて、その奥に、飲食コーナーのカウンターがありました。「焼き立て手作りパン」「桃源郷ジェラート」、そして「ジュース工房」が並んでいます。私たちは、おやつ代わりに、パンとジェラートをいただいてみることにしました。本当に焼き立て間の残るパンと、えごまとりんごのジェラートは、かなりのおいしさ...
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。
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。

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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.