Sightseeing Spot Spots in Gifu Area
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- Kadowasa River Fireflies
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Gero-shi Kadowasa Hiuchi Wasa
- "About a 30-minute drive from Gero Onsen, this area on the Kadowasa River that originates in Gero City's Kadowasa is home to a kind of firefly called ""genji-botaru."" It's a good habitat for them as the river has lots of black snails that the fireflies feed on, slow flowing water, and little pesticide pollution throughout the river basin. In 1969 the area was designated a Natural Monument by Gifu Prefecture. The best spot to see them is the roughly four-kilometer stretch between the Hiuchi and Wasa districts. You can see the fireflies in all their faint flashing glory from mid-June through July."
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- Nawashiro Cherry Blossoms
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Gero-shi Wasa
- "This Gifu Prefecture designated Natural Monument has been selected as one of the Top 33 Spots to View Cherry Blossom in the Hida-Mino region. The two stand close together on a small hill across Yamato Bridge in the Wasa district. They are about 400 years old. The name comes from the practice of local farmers who would start preparing their rice nurseries (nawashiro) when the trees were in full bloom. As such, they were also called the ""Calendar Cherry Trees."" They're at their peak from early to mid-April. They are illuminated at night during this period when visitors come from near and far for the wonderful sight of the cherry blossoms reflected in the rice paddies."
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- Sosui Gorge
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Kamo-gun Yaotsucho
- The gorge is located downstream from the Maruyama Dam in the southern part of Gifu Prefecture and is a scenic beauty spot. The 10.5-km-long Sosuikyo Hiking Trail is located in the surrounding area, and visitors can take a stroll while admiring the emerald green waters of the lake.
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- Mitake no Mori
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Gifu Kani-gun Mitakecho Naka 2777-1
- A forest park located about a 20-minute drive from the Kani Mitake Interchange on the Tokai-Kanjo Expressway. Its roughly 70-hectare recreational area is surrounded by seasonal flowers and greenery. In spring, azaleas and the blossoms of mountain cherry trees color the forest a light shade of red. In summer, bamboo lilies and Japanese irises burst into bloom, and in the fall the forest seems to burn with the hues of the foliage. Winter brings a crystalline snowy landscape. You can enjoy walks there throughout the year. Another highlight is the view from the lookout that includes Mt. Kinpu, Mt. Ena, and Mt. Ibuki.
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- WAKU WAKU TAIKENKAN
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Kani-shi Shuga 1071-4 Sasayuri Clean Park
- This hand-on learning facility in the Sasayuri Clean Park offers an array of glass crafting programs that include glass blowing, bead making, sand blasting, and glass fusing. They last one to two hours, anyone can participate, and there's something for everyone from four-year old children to adults. With lodging for up to 40 people, a gymnasium, and a day-use bathhouse all on-site, the facility is available for training camps and social gatherings, too.
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- Yoshida Dekiyama Park
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Kaizu-shi Nannocho Yoshida
- A popular cherry blossom viewing spot located about seven-minute drive from Yoro Railway's Ishizu Station on the Yoro Line. There are 1,000 mountain cherry trees along with other varieties that typically are in full bloom from late March to early April. The trees were transplanted from the nearby mountains to commemorate the creation of a cenotaph for Russo-Japanese War victims. With a profusion of blossoms as the trees have grown larger in recent years, it has become one of the most famous cherry blossom spots in the prefecture. The great variety of blossoms attracts a lot of visitors.
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- Daianji River Hotaru-no-Sato
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Kakamigahara-shi Unumanishimachi-Daianjicho
- A firefly viewing area on the upper reaches of the Daianji River in eastern Kakamigahara City. They hold a firefly festival in June when members of a local firefly organization are on hand to answer questions about the insects. The area on the river around the biotope with its facility signage is a good spot to view them. People say they're most active around 20:30. Using public transportation is recommended as there isn't a parking lot nearby.
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- Chujo-hime-seigan-zakura Cherry Tree
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Gifu-shi Obora 1-21-2 Ganjoji Keidai
- A cherry tree on the precincts of Ganjoji Temple, said to have been founded by Murakuni no Oyori, a warrior who served during the Onin War. With 20 to 30 petals on each flower, it's thought to be a mountain cherry tree variant. The nationally designated Natural Monument is about 1,200 years old. The name comes from Nakasho Hime, who fled to the temple to escape from her step-mother. Legend says she planted the tree to give thanks and as an offering to protect women of the future.
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- Myoken-jinja Shrine Cherry Blossoms
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Gujo-shi Yamatocho Maki
- This Shinto shrine is said to have been founded in the early 13th century. Its beginnings are said to be associated with Tou Taneyuki of the Tou clan who participated meritoriously in the Jokyu War and received this territory, transferring the spirit of Myoken Bosatsu, the patron deity of the Chiba clan. Gifu Prefecture has designated the shrine's Nanoka Festival held every year on August 7th as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. About 100 cherry trees of various sizes are planted along the roughly 250-meter approach to the shrine. The tunnel of cherry blossoms that forms when the trees are in full bloom from early to mid-April has been selected as one of the Top 33 Spots to View Cherry Blossom in the Hida-Mino region.
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- Arkopia Sunflower Garden
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Kugunocho Musugo 4141
- This summertime garden can be viewed at Hida Funayama Snow Resoort Arkopia. It features about 200,000 sunflowers on a slope that's packed with skiers in winter. Lots of families come for the mid-August peak season when they set up the Himawari-komichi path through the flowers and a jumbo trampoline. With water games, activities blowing enormous bubbles, a specialty bazaar, and lots more, it's a Kuguno summer tradition.
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- Sakurano Park
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Kokufucho Hirosemachi 510-1
- This park is one of the Hida region's best-known cherry blossom viewing spots. It's said to have gotten its start with the transplanting of 500 saplings of seven cherry varieties grown at Mt. Yoshino in the late Nanbokucho period. Meiji period development and heavy rains during the Heisei period saw its area reduced. Today about 300 Yoshino and double weeping rosebud cherry trees line 600 meters of the Miyagawa River. They are lit up at night during the mid-April full bloom period, creating a marvelous atmosphere. It has been selected as one of the 33 Best Places to View Cherry Blossom in the Hida-Mino region.
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- Shiroyama Park
- Leisure / Hobbies
- Gifu Takayama-shi Shiroyama
- This 25-hectare park is the largest in Takayama City. It's on the site of Takayama Castle, which is said to have taken Kanamori Nagachika, the lord of Hida Province, 16 years to complete. Popular with the locals, it centers on the Ninomaru Park and has walking paths, playground equipment, an open plaza, and an arbor. There are also about 700 Yoshino cherry trees, and visitors enjoy seeing the blossoms while taking in a view of the town. They're typically at their peak in mid-April. Engulfed in silence and surrounded by abundant nature, the park has been selected as one of the Top 100 Forested Valleys in Japan.
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- Subzero Forest (Hyotenka no Mori)
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Takayama-shi Asahicho Kurumijima 355
- "Located about an hour from Hida Takayama, one can find winterly features at Akigami Onsen at the foot of Mt. Ontake. This old winterland dates back to 1971. It is an ice forest that is prepared from around September every year with a water supply hose of about 600 meters in a site of about four hectares. You can enjoy a world of brilliant color that is blue during the day and lit up at night. When the cold is particularly severe, we host a ""bubble ball experience"", where you can witness bubble balls freezing in the air and not breaking even when they fall to the ground."
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- Kokei Park
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Tajimi Bentencho 3
- This park overlooks the Tajimi townscape between it and the Toki River, and is located a ten-minute drive from Tajimi Station. In the spring, this park is crowded with people who come to view the cherry blossoms that have been selected as one of the 33 Hida and Mino cherry blossoms. Inside the park, there is a viewing platform with a slide, and many people go up to the viewing platform to see a sweeping view of the town's rows of cherry blossoms that are best seen in early April. It is stunning to see approximately 400 cherry blossoms in full bloom, and you can also appreciate them in the evening. At the rest area, pepper dengaku tofu and skewered rice cakes with soy sauce and miso are sold.
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- Sai Riverbank
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Ogaki-shi Sunomatacho Sunomata
- The cherry trees along the Saigawa River that flows around Sumimata Ichiyo Castle are more than 50 years old and stretch for about 2 km. Since 2006, hydrangeas have been planted along the road, and it is also known as "Cherry Blossom Embankment" or "Hydrangea Road.
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- Sanpoiwa Parking Lot
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Ono-gun Shirakawamura
- This parking lot is located at the highest point of the Hakusan Shirakawa-go White Road driving course in Hakusan National Park that connects Ishikawa Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture. It is situated in front of the tunnel entrance that crosses the prefectural border near the prefectural border in Gifu Prefecture. It is the earliest place to see the changing autumn leaves on Hakusan Shirakawa-go White Road, and it is possible to see the Northern Alps from an altitude of 1,450 meters on clear days. It is also the starting point to Mt. Sanpoiwadake, derived from the rocks facing the three directions towards Hida, Etchu and Kaga. You can climb the trail in about 50 minutes to the summit, and go down in around 40 minutes.
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- Sogi Park
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Toki Sogicho
- "This park is located in the southeastern part of Gifu Prefecture close to the border with Aichi Prefecture. It is known as a spot to see ""sakasa momiji"" (inverted autumn leaves), a highlight of autumn in Gifu. The park has been selected as one of the 33 best places to see Hida/Mino autumn leaves, with about 100 mesmerizing lights shining on the maple leaves and reflecting on the water surface. While ordinarily a park with a pavilion and pond, from mid-November the park becomes crowded with tourists from both inside and outside the prefecture. Please note that using tripods is prohibited between 17:00 and 19:00 during the light-up period."
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- Cherry Trees of Ushimaki Area
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Minokamo-shi Ibukacho
- This tree-lined street stretches along the Kawaura River in the Ushimaki area approximately ten minutes from the Mino-Kamo Interchange. Around 50 Yoshino cherry trees are planted along the clear stream. Since it is a street with usually very little traffic, it is a hidden gem that even many locals living in Minokamo City do not know of. The magnificent view of the street lined with cherry trees and the rocky mountains is known to changes its appearance at different times of the day, due to the different way the light shines on it in the morning and in the afternoon. In mid-April, when the flowers are in full bloom, the place is crowded with many visitors from inside and outside the prefecture come to admire the cherry blossoms.
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- Weeping Cherry Trees of Shogenji Temple
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Minokamo-shi Ibukacho 872-2
- "These cherry tree blooms on the grounds of Shoganji Temple belonging to the Myoshinji Sect of the Rinzai School are approximately 20 minutes from the Tomika-Seki Interchange. These cherries bloom splendidly in front of the Hongan of Shoganji Temple, established by Kanzan Muso Daishi in 1330. The drooping cherry are said to be 300 years old, and it is known for how the blooms enhance the solemn atmosphere of Shoganji Temple, also known as the ""Oku no In (inner shrine)"" of Myoshinji Temple. In 1971, it was also designated a cultural heritage of Minokamo City. Since it is close to another popular cherry tree viewing spot, Cherry Trees of Ushimaki Area, many people go to see both places when the cherries are in full bloom."
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- Koyama Kannon / Koyama Park
- Travel / Tourism
- Gifu Minokamo-shi Shimoyonedacho Koyama 104
- This Kannon-do (temple dedicated to Kannon) of the Hida River is located within Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park. A Bato Kannon (horse-headed Kannon) is enshrined on Naka no Shima, an island that used to be connected to land. This building has a connection with a warrior of the late Heian period called Yoshinaka Kiso, and now is worshiped as the principal object of worship that grants wishes for health, protection during travel and childbearing. Every year on the first Sunday of March, the popular Hatsu-uma Annual Festival is held here, and a potted plant market as well as many stands line the Oyama riverbank. Kanon Bridge, built so that people could come and go on land, is also known as a great cherry tree viewing spot, and many cherry tree admirers come from neighboring villages when the trees are in bloom.
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.
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