Zoo Spots in Gifu Area

  • Kinkazan Squirrel Village
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    3.5
    79 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Gifu Prefecture Gifu City Kanghwa Mountain peak
    The Kinkazan Squirrel Village preserves the nature around it and is blessed with a sunny, green environment. It was the first squirrel village in Japan at its founding in 1965. You can feed the squirrels by entering the cage, putting on leather gloves and giving food to the tame squirrels. Right next to Kinkazan Ropeway’s Sancho Station.

    Squirrels are forest dwellers.xa0So its certainly NOT OK to keep these wild animals in a small gated area, to be continually handled and touched by humans, pure for money. A DISGRACE

  • Squirre Nomori Hidasanyasoshizen Garden
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    4.5
    28 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Matsukuramachi 2351-7

    Took a taxi there and walked back to the town as it is downhill all the way! Nice walk about 35 minutes. The squirrels are cute and don’t need any food to find fun running up your trousers and...

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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