Spots in Gifu Area

  • Japan Line Unuma Forest
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Kakamigaharashi Unuma Ishizan
    A park located a 20 minute walk from JR Unuma Station. The park encompasses Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park and the Place of Scenic Beauty-designated Kisogawa River. The park’s Furosato Chobo no Oka and mountaintop observatory areas offer sweeping views of the Nobi Plain and Inuyama Castle. Also a popular destination for enjoying night views, the Furusato Chobo no Oka lookout, located close to a parking area, often bustles with people. There is a children’s library called Mori no Honya-san located in the park, making it a popular destination for families with children as well.
  • Uoso
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    5.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Yajimachou 1-3
    This kappo Japanese restaurant in Yajima-cho, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture specializes in sweetfish cuisine. Dedicated to using wild sweetfish taken locally from the Nagara River, they purchase them fresh every morning when in season. The fish's lifespan is just a year, and as they grow between summer and autumn, their flavor gradually changes. Their preparation methods alter accordingly, from segoshi (thin sliced sashimi) to sweetfish simmered nitsuke style. When sweetfish is out of season, they offer a separate seasonal menu with wild vegetables and duck.

    一夜干しからはじまり、塩焼、田楽、フライ、雑炊と。すすめてくれた日本酒ともベストマッチでどれもおいしかった。冬はカモらしいので、機会があればまた来たい。

  • Bentendo
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Kandamachi 5-12
    This Japanese sweet shop founded in 1912 is a 10-minute walk from JR Gifu Station. Their Kurikomochi treats covered with chestnut powder is said to be the ultimate in Japanese confectionery. Artisans meticulously prepare them with only carefully selected domestic chestnuts. Adding the absolute minimum amount of sweetener, they leave the mochi rice cake itself unsweetened, letting the unadulterated flavor of the chestnuts shine through. Besides Japanese sweets like kuri-kinton (mashed sweet chestnuts) and strawberry daifuku (mochi rice balls with sweet filling) and strawberry custard daifuku during strawberry season, they also offer Western confections like roll cake, marble cake, baumkuchen, pie cake, and more.

    名鉄岐阜駅前を通る長良橋通沿いにあります。大正時代から続いているお店とのこと。優しい表情の店主が応対してくれ、ほっこりします。大きなガラス張りで外からも店内がよく見えます。岐阜は栗きんとんが有名ですが、こちらでは栗粉餅という名前の通り、お餅を栗粉で包んだもので、甘過ぎず、栗きんとんとは違った美味しさをいただきます。当日中しかもたないのも魅力です。

  • 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...

  • Kawaramachiya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Tamaichou 28
    This gallery and cafe does business in an over 130-year old building like a machiya (traditional townhouse), and is located a three-minute walk after getting off at the Nagarabashi bus stop of the Gifu Bus N Route from JR or Meitetsu Railways Gifu Station. Besides the Kawaramachiya Coffee that they carefully make cup by cup with beans they grind when orders are received, you can enjoy their tea, sweets including seasonal limited-time only original cakes, and sweetfish rice porridge. In addition to the special exhibits that change according to the season in the gallery, they also sell traditional Japanese accessories such as Mino washi (Japanese paper). They also have irregular piano performances on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays.
  • Yajima Coffee
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Omiyachou 1-8
    A café located in the Kinboshi Soko building close to Gifu Park at the foot of Mt. Kinka. Customers can get a sweeping view of Mt. Kinka from the café’s huge, movie screen-like windows. One of the best things about the café is the fact that you can choose what you want from the huge menu of diverse coffees covering a broad array of flavors based on your tastes and mood. The café’s traditional French confections, such as tarts made with the highest quality ingredients, are prepared by hand daily. Visitors are encouraged to have a cake set, which comes with their choice of beverage. The café also sells coffee beans, so if there’s a particularly coffee you really enjoy, you can buy the relevant beans and enjoy it at home as well.

    コーヒーがおいしいです。ケーキは好みあり。私は春のイチゴタルトが好き。その時期にはつい足を運んでしまいます。

  • Yamamoto Sataro Shoten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Matsuyachou 17
    This veteran oil wholesaler with a history of 140 plus years was founded in 1876. Its head office is on a small road between Inaba Shrine and National Route 256. Originally, they pressed rapeseed oil, but after the facility was destroyed in air raids, they became wholesalers, making use of their previous experience. Now they primarily offer karinto fried dough cakes, shortbread, and biscuits. They also produce the Daichi-no-Oyatsu line of sweets in collaboration with the Japanese confectionery artisan Machino Kimihide, also known as “Macchin. They use their know-how and passion as oil wholesalers to make sweets that feel safe and familiar as the decades roll by.
  • Sohara Nature Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Gifu Pref. Kakamigaharashi Soharakitayamachou 1
    This Kakamigahara City park and off the beaten track plum blossom spot can be reached by taking the Northern Fureai Bus's Kawashima Line to the Sotoyama-cho bus stop. It's a ten-minute walk from there. The beautiful natural environment changes with the seasons, and it's a nice place to take a stroll while listening to bird song and the sound of the park's waterfall. A nature trail starts at Ibuki no taki Falls at the foot of Mt. Gongen and the view from the summit is excellent. The park's spring-fed streams and pond support lotus flowers and aquatic plants, and about 50 plum blossoms come into bloom in the early spring, some with red blossoms and some with white. Visit in autumn to take in the colored leaves in this season.
  • Kanda Bakuroichidai
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    3.5
    29 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Kandamachi 7-7
    This yakiniku (Japanese-style barbeque) restaurant is located a one-minute walk from Meitetsu Gifu Station on the Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line. The restaurant specializes in Hida beef, which it buys by the head. There, guests can enjoy Saitobi beef, beef superior even to A5-grade beef. The restaurant offers table and horigotatsu (sunken kotatsu) seating, as well as private rooms that can be used for small groups or large banquets. The restaurant’s shabu shabu (Japanese hot pot) features meat so marbled that your chopsticks will cut right through it. Its generously-portioned lunches allow you to casually enjoy extravagant treats such as shabu shabu, chargrilled meat, or nigiri sushi at reasonable prices.

    名鉄岐阜駅から徒歩5分間、国道157号線沿いに立地。土曜日の開店前に到着したが予約客でほぼ満席、焼肉用の席は約60分待ち・非焼肉席の席も30分待ちと言われ…やっぱり超人気店、予約しとけば良かった。30分程待ち2階畳席に通された、先ずは中瓶と飛騨牛どて煮、次に飛騨牛握り5貫と地酒の長良川を注文。煮込んだ飛騨牛ホルモンのどて煮をスーパードライで頂く。飛騨牛で巻いたイクラ軍艦とウニ軍艦、飛騨牛の炙りサー...

  • Tamamiya Torori
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Nishitamamiyachou 2-6
    This Japanese restaurant is located a two-minute walk from Meitetsu Railways’ Gifu Station. They provide contemporary Japanese food that combines traditional Kyoto cuisine with the essence of Western-style cooking in the style of kappo traditional Japanese cuisine. Guests are welcomed according to their needs with open counter seating or one of seven colorful private spaces. The menu consists of six different courses where the dishes are chosen and arranged by the owner, who draws inspiration from the ingredients purchased on the day. Among them, their “Kyo-fu Kaiseki - Shijo” course is the most recommended by the restaurant. They offer a wide range of alcoholic beverages from Japanese sake to shochu (Japanese liquor) and wine.

    岐阜への出張中、駅近で名物の飛騨牛が堪能できる「ぎふ駅前とろり」で、同僚4人と素晴らしい食事を楽しむことができました。 店内は落ち着いた雰囲気で、仕事仲間との会話も弾みました。 まず注文したのは本日のカルパッチョ。 飛騨サーモンを使った鮮やかな色合いが目を引く一品で、お酒のおつまみにぴったりでした。 次に登場したのが、飛騨牛ローストビーフサラダ(2200円)。 厚切りの飛騨牛が贅沢に使用さ...

  • Nagara Tatin
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Nishizaimokuchou 41-2 Nagara Gawa Flavor
    A sweet shop, bakery, and café located in the Nagaragawa Flavor facility a three minute walk from the Zaimoku-cho bus stop on the bus from JR and Meitetsu Gifu Station. Nagara Tatin crafts unique Gifu sweets perfect for giving as gifts made with select ingredients such as honey from Gifu and Sakura eggs. The shop’s “Kanaderu Tsumiki” has been featured on TV—consisting of 15 different small cake cubes placed in colorful boxes resembling toy wood blocks, this cute sweets assortment is both the establishment’s signature product and its most popular. Customers can also enjoy the establishment’s in-house baked breads in the on-site café space.

    ケーキがおいしいと知人から伺っていたので訪れました。パン屋と繋がっており、綺麗で味もおいしく良い雰囲気の中で至福のひとときを過ごせます。

  • Nagarabashi Bridge
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Nagara Fukumitsu
    A bridge spanning the Nagara River in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture which is one of the city’s most well-known. Often depicted in Taisho period picture postcards, the bridge ranks alongside cormorant fishing as one of the symbols of Gifu Prefecture. The bridge was first built in the Meiji period; the current reinforced concrete bridge is the fourth one to be built here. Cormorant fishing spectating boats pass beneath the bridge, while a statue of a cormorant fishermen and a monument to Hiroshi Itsuki’s hit song ”Nagaragawa Enka” stand at the south end of the bridge. In summer, a fireworks display is held downriver from the bridge, while cormorant fishing overseen by the Imperial Household Agency Board of Ceremonies is conducted upriver from the bridge.
  • Gifu City Chikusan Center Park
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Tsubakibora 776-4
    This park is in Tsubakibora, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture. Originally it was a breeding ground for Gifu City livestock. A variety of domesticated animals like horses, sheep, goats, donkeys, pigs, chickens, and rabbits live a carefree life on the facility's open pasture. Some of them you can feed for a fee. There is a hiking course on the mountain side of the facility for natural exploration. They also have a botanical garden with hydrangeas, lilies, roses, and other flowers that in season come into colorful bloom.
  • Le Cerisier d'amour (Kitaisshiki Shop)
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Kitaisshiki 4-4-30
    This stylish shop that looks like an art museum is about five minutes by car from Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line's Hosobata Station. Their showcase is filled with items like cake, baked sweets, ice cream, and bread. Among their 30 kinds of sliced cake, only six are their standard varieties. The rest are all seasonal specials. These include their Shimanto River Mont Blanc made with Kochi Prefecture chestnuts, Edamame Tart made with local Gifu Prefecture edamame beans, and their Marugoto Momo made with an entire peach. You'll be able to try something new in every season.

    マーマーレード・パウンドケーキをいただきました。バターがしっかり効いていて、とても濃厚、かつかなりのしっとり感を楽しめます*^^*さすがのスリジェさん

  • Nagarakawa Sightseeing Agricultural Association
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Obusamidorimachi 2-34
    The tourism farm is located across from Mt. Kinkazan and Gifu Castle along the Nagaragawa River in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture. Grapes grown in sandy soil with good drainage are sweeter than others, because they do not retain water. Visitors can enjoy picking grapes with no time limit, and depending on the season, they can sample Delaware, Steuben, or Bailey A grapes. One option for grape picking includes a souvenir, an additional 600 grams of grapes.
  • Nagaragawa River
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Prefecture
    A river which flows through the center of Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture and which has been selected as one of the 100 most renowned waterways in the country. The river has been featured in songs by Goro Noguchi and Hiroshi Itsuki and also appeared in a novel by Yasunari Kawabata. A walking path is maintained which leads upriver from the NagarabashiBridge, and during the cormorant fishing season, visitors can watch the action up close from here while Gifu Castle, lit up with large floodlights, looms in the background. Some 400 Yoshino cherries grow on the left bank of the river, and when the trees are in full bloom in early April, crowding the shoreline, the area bustles with visitors come to see the blossoms.
  • Okashi Tamai Ya Honpo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gifu-shi Minatomachi 42
  • Tamariya Yamakawa Jozo Co., Ltd.
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Gifu-shi Nagaraaoicho 1-9
  • Gifu GRAND HOTEL Royal Theater
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    4.0
    159 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Gifu-shi Nagara 648

    Ours group of 20persons stay in this hotel ,Big building separate for East and West , Breakfast in a hall ,dinner in big private room , all meat very good . The basement spa area size and equipment...

  • AEON MALL Kakamigahara
    Shopping
    Gifu Kakamigahara-shi Nakakayabacho 3-8

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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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