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Roadside Station Obaachan Ichi Yamaoka

4.0

88 Reviews

Transportation

Gifu Pref. Enashi Yamaokachoutashiro 1565-169

Roadside Station Obaachan-Ichi Yamaoka is located in the city of Ena in Gifu Prefecture, and customers who go there are greeted with warm smiles and treated with such kindness that they will feel as if they have returned to their hometown. As its name, which means “Grandma's Market, implies fresh vegetables lovingly raised by older women are sold here, along with Hosokanten (agar gelatin) that the town of Yamaoka is famous for. Other attractions at this tourism spot include Japan's largest water wheel, 24 meters in diameter, the cozy restaurant Miharashi Chaya, the golden “Happiness Bell, which represents longings for encounters, marriage, and long life; and many seasonal events.

お目当てのランチの帰りに立ち寄りました。ここもランチが有名と知ったのは到着後。遠くから見ると観覧車にしか見えない巨大な水車がありましたし、景色も抜群です。山中にあるので休憩にはもってこいの場所です。
Eihoji Temple

4.5

94 Reviews

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Gifu Prefecture Tajimi Tottoriyama Town 1-40

This temple was founded in the Kamakura period (1185-1333) by Muso Soseki. Its honorary name Kokeizan comes from how the surrounding mountain scenery resembles China’s Kokei Ravine at Lushan. Eihoji’s garden is superbly beautiful and has been designated a Historic Site and Natural Monument. There are many sights you shouldn’t miss, like the Kaisando and Kannondo, both National Treasures. The principal object of worship, an image of Kanzeon Bosatsu, is a Prefectural Cultural Property. There are also sacred items like an image of Binzuru, a deity with healing powers, and a collection of Sentai Jizo statues.

Hidden at the bottom of a hill on the outskirts of town is a pituresc set of temples and a wonderful tree. We have made several trips here. You need to walk but with the exception of winter (when the...
Magomejuku

Travel / Tourism

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Magome 4300-1

This is one of the old post towns on the historic Nakasendo highway in which old scenery from the Edo period still remains. The cobblestone path along the hill features various buildings including restaurants and inns that evoke the days of old, giving it a very nostalgic atmosphere. Known as the birthplace of literary master Toson Shimazaki, various facilities connected to Shimazaki remain including the Toson Memorial Museum that is built on the remains of the headquarters of the Shimazaki family.
Stone Museum Hakusekikan

4.0

35 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Hirukawa 5263-7

The Stone Museum Hakusekikan is famous for having the largest pyramid in Japan, built from 5,500 tons of Hirukawa granite. The Museum offers a wide range of activities, including precious stone hunting, quarrying experience activities, and craft activities that involve making things by hand. The pyramid is a one-tenth scale replica of the Great Pyramid (the Pyramid of Khufu) in Egypt, with a “burial chamber” inside that houses a sarcophagus containing stones from genuine Egyptian pyramids and other commemorative artifacts. The Stone Museum Hakusekikan is located around 15 minutes’ drive from the Ena Interchange of the Chuo Expressway.

6歳の男の子連れです。ピラミッドの中に本格的な巨大迷路があり、とても楽しめます。写真スポットも多く、マイクラ好きもあり、多くの知ってる石があったようでかなり喜んでいました。宝石さがしもとても喜んでいました。駐車場も広くおすすめです。
Iwamura Brewery Co. Ltd.

4.0

50 Reviews

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Gifu Pref. Enashi Iwamurachou 342

This local sake brewery has a 200-year history. The local favorite Onna Joshu gets its name from Otsuya-no-Kata, the first female lord of the famous Iwamura Castle. They participate in sake competitions and win awards at Gifu Prefecture's Shinshu Kanpyokai (National New Sake Appraising and Deliberating Fair) almost every year. They have free brewery tours where you can see the trolley track that was once used for transporting rice and sake. They also have tastings of their recent brews and hold an event to introduce their new sake to the world on a Sunday and public holiday in February.

朝ドラ半分あおいのロケ地で有名ですが、江戸時代の宿場町と江戸時代の古民家があり見どころがあります。また電線地中化になっておりとても空が綺麗でのんびりできます。またお店もそこそこありのんびり晴れた日に2時間程度の散歩にもってこいです。
Enakyo Cruise (Ena Gorge Tour)

3.5

26 Reviews

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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...
Roadside Station Soba no Sato Rassei Misato

3.5

13 Reviews

Transportation

Gifu Pref. Enashi Misatochou Sazaragi 1461-1

To reach Roadside Station Soba no Sato Rassei Misato, motorists should take Prefectural Route 66 southwest from the Ena Interchange for 10 minutes, where they will find the roadside station at the intersection with National Route 418, with a view of massive mountains. There is a shop that directly sells locally grown vegetables and fruits that have been picked the same morning after being carefully raised by the growers, who are proud of the freshness and rich flavors of their products. The souvenir sales area offers popular Oni Manju, Gohei Mochi and other foods typical of the region. The restaurant Rasseian serves dishes such as Tenzaru Soba (cold noodles with dipping sauce and a side of tempura), Kamo (duck) Soba set meal, and wide variety of other soba dishes. Visitors who make reservations ahead of time can try making their own soba noodles.

少し遅い時間に行くとご飯は売り切れという事がしばしばあります。そのため蕎麦定食は食べることが出来ず、価格的にも少し高い天ぷらと蕎麦のセットになってしまうのが痛いです。
Roadside Station Kirira Sakashita

3.5

24 Reviews

Transportation

Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Sakashita 450-2

Roadside Station Kirira Sakashita is located only a six-minute walk from JR Sakashita Station on the Chuo Line, It stands on the right bank of the Kiso River, surrounded by mountains that change color throughout the four seasons. The name “Kirara is a compound of “Kiso, “river, and “right side. Inside the facility is an area where visitors can try making their own soba noodles under the guidance of an instructor according to traditional methods, using flour made from high-quality buckwheat grown on the grounds and learning how delicious handmade soba is. They can also practice making such local sweets as Gorin Manju and Kuri Kinton (a dish made with chestnuts and yams) in a lively and playful atmosphere.

下呂温泉から中山道の馬籠宿へと向かっている途中、中津川市のＪＲ坂下駅近くの国道沿いにあった道の駅に立ち寄りました。車もたくさん停まっていて、多くの人たちが訪れていたので、人気の道の駅なんですね。館内をぐるっと回ってみると、お蕎麦の品ぞろえが豊富でした。この辺りは蕎麦の産地なんですね。蕎麦の産地らしく、こちらの道の駅では「蕎麦打ち体験」ができるんです。
Hommachi Oribe Street

3.0

36 Reviews

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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。
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。
Toson Memorial Museum

3.5

42 Reviews

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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

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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。
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

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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。
Akechi Tetsudo

4.0

30 Reviews

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Gifu Ena-shi Akechicho 469-4

A local train line running 25.1-kilometer from Ena Station on the Chuo Main Line to the end point at Akechi Station. You can take in the tranquil rural scenery from the train window as it winds its way south through the highland area of Higashi-Mino. The area along the way is full of highlights including Iwamura Castle's town, Hanashiro Onsen with its elegant kaiseki cuisine featuring agar vegetable gelatin, and Taisho Village with all the ambiance of that bygone era. The Taisho Roman-go is an express train with a dining car that lets you enjoy seasonal Ena cuisine made with local ingredients, including mushroom dishes and courses featuring agar, a Yamaoka specialty.

恵那駅から明智駅まで約50分なので、ちょうど手ごろな鉄道旅。特に何かある様な路線ではありませんが、田舎の中を行く風景は雑念を忘れさせてくれます。行きはほとんど登りで、ディーゼルカーが可哀そうなくらい必死で登っていく様子がよくわかります。一方帰りはその反対なので、ほとんど惰力で走っています。途中の飯沼駅にはまだ『勾配日本一』の看板がありますが、かなり前に京阪京津線の大谷駅に抜かされている筈なの...
Science World (Gifu Prefectural Advanced Science & Technology Experience Center)

4.0

28 Reviews

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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。
Roadside Station Cha no Sato Higashi-Shirakawa

4.0

11 Reviews

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Gifu Pref. Kamogunhigashishirakawamura Otsubara 1061

Roadside Station Cha no Sato Higashi-Shirakawa is in a beautiful natural setting in the village of Higashi Shirakawa, Kamo Country, the area where the famous Shirakawa tea is grown. There is a plant on the premises where the richly fragrant and deeply flavorful tea, grown in the harsh local climate, is processed and sold to the public. Inside the main building, visitors can buy fresh tea leaves picked in the village and enjoy regional cuisine made with local vegetables, as well as the Tsuchi no Ko Yaki (snake-shaped cakes) that the village is famous for. Visitors can go to the neighboring tourist farm and pick blueberries during the summer, try ayu (sweetfish) fishing in the river, or experience nature in other ways.

宇治に端を発するとされる白川茶の工場が併設されていて、購入したり飲んだりできるのが特徴です。唐辛子の数倍は辛いとされるこのあたり特産のアジメコショウも買え、お土産に良いと思います。食事はメニューのバリエーションが少なそうでした。
Eishoji Temple

4.0

18 Reviews

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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.
Iwamura Castle Ruins

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Gifu Pref. Enashi Iwamurachou Shiroyama

One of Japan’s three major mountain castles, Iwamura Castle—also known as “Kirigajo” —is a well-fortified mountain castle that cleverly uses the landscape—a 180 meter drop—as a natural defense. You could easily call the grand stone walls “the Machu Picchu of the East,” and they will leave castle lovers breathless. The 700-year history of this castle is unmatched by any other castle in Japan. About 20 minutes by car via the Ena Interchange on the Chuo Expressway.

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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.