Sightseeing Spot Spots in Chuno Area
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- No-shu Sekisho Rest House
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- Gifu Pref. Sekishi Minamikasugachou 9-1
- This rest facility is located in Minami-kasuga-cho, Seki City. It is made in the image of the “Sekisho” from which it is said the city’s name originated from. The restaurant offers local cuisine and also has morning and lunch menus. In the local product shop, you can find a large number of local specialties and famous items, and fresh vegetables harvested locally are sold at the morning market. It is recommended that families try the origami or handicraft workshops in the “Takumi no Waza Taiken Kobo” (craftsmanship experiential workshop). Reservations are required and can be made using the Seki City public relations magazine “Koho Seki.”
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「濃州関所茶屋」は、関市の名前の由来となったといわれる「関所」をイメージした休憩施設です。高さ4メートルの冠木門をくぐると、朝市販売所、物産ショップがあります。日本刀アイスも販売しています。
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- Teraogahara Senbonzakura Park
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- Gifu Pref. Sekishi Mugegawachoutaniguchi Terao
- A park situated along a Prefectural Route connecting to the Terao Pass a 20 minute drive from the Mino Interchange. The park is a renowned destination for viewing cherry blossoms in spring. The park got its start when local residents planted some 300 cherry trees in prayer for peace shortly after the end of WWII in 1951. Today, around 1,000 cherry trees grow along a two kilometer stretch of the Prefectural Route. The best time to view the blossoms is from early through mid-April. During the cherry blossom season, the trees are also lit up at night, providing visitors with a different landscape from that which can be enjoyed during the daytime. In addition, paper lanterns are hung from the trees and stalls and a tea house open up during this time, delighting the many tourists who come here to see the flowers.
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- Miyama Forest
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- Gifu Yamagata-shi Tominaga 1111
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- WAKU WAKU TAIKENKAN
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- 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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- Myoken-jinja Shrine Cherry Blossoms
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- 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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- Cherry Trees of Ushimaki Area
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Higashiyama Forest Park / Shimoyoneda Sakura no Mori
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- Gifu Minokamo-shi Shimoyonedacho Norimitsu 491-1
- This forest park stretches northeast where the Hida and Kiso rivers meet. Inside the 23-hectare park, there are around 4,000 meters of walking paths. It is known as a great flower viewing spot with around 5700 flowers from 35 species planted. During early to mid-April when the Edo-higanzakura cherry and hill cherry among other flowers are in bloom, the place is crowded with many sightseers. There are also resting spots and gazebos, so it is also fun to have a leisurely walk around. From the Hakusan Observary, you can see where the Hida River and Kiso River meet, as well as the city and the mountains such as Mt. Ontake.
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- Kobi Shrine / Kobi Kinrin Park
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- Gifu Minokamo-shi Nakatomicho 2-9
- This shrine is located ten minutes from the Minokamo Interchange. The exact construction is unknown, but it is reported that the shrine was renamed Mototsushima Shrine, Hachioji Shrine and Nakatomi Shrine during the Meiji period (1868-1912). The festival held on the second Saturday and Sunday of April every year is famous. Small shrines are brought out under the vividly blooming Yoshino cherry and double-flowered cherry. A man wearing a fly-like demon mask appears and performs an exorcism which involves lightly tapping the head of the worshiper with a bamboo stick called a Sasara. This is said to make children smarter.
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- Ogura Park
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- Gifu Mino-shi Izumicho 1571-3
- This park located in Izumi-cho, Mino City is the area of Ogurayama where the remains of Ogurayama Castle are located. In addition to an observation deck, lawn plaza, and playground equipment, it also has facilities such as a mini zoo. It is also known for being chosen as one of the Hida-Mino 33 Best Sakura Spots, where about 1,000 cherry blossom trees bloom in spring. Seasonal teahouse sales and illuminations are also held.
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- Sogisui
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- Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Hachimanchouhonmachi
- A spring also known as the Hakuunsui located in Gujo-Hachiman, an area famous for its abundance of clean water, a 10 minute drive from the Gujo-Hachiman Interchange. This famous spring was selected as number one on a list of Japan’s most renowned springs. The pure waters which well up from the source spring here have been used by local residents for daily life needs since ancient times. In 1471, renga poem master Sogi Iio exchanged poems here with To Tuneyori—lord of Gujo Domain, Mino Province and Sogi’s teacher in poetry—when the former was making his way back to Kyoto. This event led to the spring coming to be called the “Sogisui” (“Sogi Water”) and has also resulted in rich cultural activities such as the Sogisui Jinsai festival held each year on August 20.
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- Igawa Komichi
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- Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Hachimanchoushimadani
- A scenic old water canal located right next to the Former Gujo-Hachiman City Hall Memorial Building a five minute drive from the Gujo-Hachiman Interchange. Enclosed by the stone walls of old Japanese homes, trees, and shrubs, the canal has an old fashioned atmosphere harkening back to a different age. Visitors can see colorful red and white koi carp swimming in the canal and, in summer, possibly see locals cooling a watermelon in its waters. Sometimes locals also keep baskets of sweetfish used for bait in the canal, as well, and being able to taste the air of one of Japan’s bygone eras is one of the area’s biggest highlights. There are three clothes washing areas along the canal which also serve as social gathering spaces for locals.
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- Hydrangea Road
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- Gifu Pref. Sekishi Itadori
- This pass runs along the clear waters of the Itadori River that flows almost through the center of the Itadori district, and is known by this name because of the approximately 70,000 hydrangeas that are planted along the nearly 24 kilometer highway. Even selected as one of Japan’s top 100 roads, various events are held when the hydrangea are in bloom. The best time to see them is from mid-June to early July, and it bustles with many tourists from inside and outside the prefecture who visit every year at that time.
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- Oyada-jinja Shrine
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- Gifu Pref. Minoshi Oyada 2596
- A Shinto shrine located in the Kaededani Valley at the foot of Mt. Tennozan which was founded over 2,000 years ago. The current main shrine was built in 1672 and is notable for its extravagant carving and showy coloring similar to the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, a style which flourished in the early Edo period. The most magnificent structure in the city, this building is also designated a National Important Cultural Property. Some 3,000 Japanese mountain maples grow on the shrine’s grounds, making it one of the leading destinations for enjoying fall foliage in the prefecture. The shrine holds a Momiji Festival celebrating maples and fall foliage which lasts from early November to early December; the shrine also holds the Oyada Hinkoko Festival, a designated National Selected Intangible Folk-Cultural Property, in the spring and in the autumn.
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- Hana no Eki HiruganoKogen Kochia Park
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- Gifu Gujo-shi Takasucho Hirugano
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- Shikoku Yama Kaori no Mori Park
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- Gifu Yamagata-shi Oga 726-1
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- Hirugano Kogen no Momiji
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- Gifu Gujo-shi Takasucho Hirugano
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- Kawaura Valley no Momiji
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- Gifu Seki-shi Itadori Kawaura
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- 21 Century no Mori
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- Gifu Seki-shi
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