Best Tourist Spots In Gifu
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Shirakawa Village is a heavy snowfall area, but it snowed not so much for us to visit here this winter. And we can enjoy the snowy landscape as much as we want! It will snow more during February, so you're still in time to see this scenery.
Name
Shirakawago
Address
Ogi-machi Shirakawa-mura, Ono-gun, GifuGoogle Map
Tel
05769-6-1311
How to get there
10 min by car from Shirakawago IC. By bus, 50 min from Takayama Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
There're 157 kinds of and 300 thousand tulip, muscari, and hyacinth all around the garden, we can feel the arrival of spring. The entrance fees and parking area are free, and it's located near a famous Nabana-no Sato, so we can enjoy these two gardens together. The Tulip Festival in 2019 starts from March 25th!
Name
Kiso Sansen Park Center
Address
255-3 Aburajima Kaizu-cho, Kaizu-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
20 min by bus from Ishizu Station to Kiso Sansen Park
Parking
Parking area is available
The central town of Takayama, located at Hida Region of Japan, had been developed as a castle town and business town since Edo Period. There're many wooden houses, and we can enjoy good-old atmosphere. Here in Sanmachi Street, tourist enjoy food, sake, local handiworks, and so on.
Name
Retro Town In Takayama
Address
Kamisannomachi, Takayama-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 120min from Matsumoto IC. Or 12min walk from Takayama Station.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available
You can see lively three colors of autumn leaves in the daytime, but, you must see the night light-up when you visit Sogi Park! There're eight ponds in the park, and each of them has different scenery of upside-down maple trees. Specialty, many people got together at the pond just near the entrance.◎Light-up from November 9th to 18th in 2018. Some time periods prohibit the use of tripod, so please have good manners and enjoy taking pictures.
Name
Sogi Park
Address
Sogi-cho, Toki-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By car or taxi, 20 min from Mizunami Station, 80 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
The sunflower field itself is of course attractive, but in addition, you can enjoy Sunflower Tunnel people can walk through, and the collaboration with Shinkansen Super Express. They're worth taking pictures. It's possible to take Doctor Yellow (a rare train running to check the Shinkansen tracks) in your pictures!
Name
Ōgaki Sunflower Field
Address
955 Higashimae-cho Hiramachi, Ogaki-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By bus, 15 min from JR Ōgaki Station to Sugue, then 8 min walk. 35 min by car from Gifu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
The transparent water of the pond and beautiful Nishikigoi carp are wonderful. Though it rained when I visited here, I want to come again on a sunny day.
Name
Monet's Pond (Nameless Pond)
Address
Itadori, Seki-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
50 min by car from Gifu city. Nemichi Shrine's parking area is available.
At a town of tile, Tajimi City in Gifu Prefecture, Mosaic Tile Museum exhibits the history of various kinds of tiles. Tile is art! You can stuff a bag with as many tiles as you can for 500 yen.◎Entrance free: 300yen. In a stairwell area, you can take pictures of beautiful tiles with the blue sky.
Name
Mosaic Tile Museum Tajimi
Address
2082-5 Kasahara-cho, Tajimi-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Hours
9:00-17:00
Closed
Mon
How to get there
17 min by bus from Tajimi Station to Mosaic Tile Museum. 25 min by car from Tajimi IC, or 15 min from Toki-minami Tajimi IC.
Parking
Parking area is available
Embara River is located at the heart of the mountains in Gifu Prefecture, and I like here because there're a few people there. You can see the sun pillar in the early morning. When you want to be deep in thoughts, it's a great place to do so.
Name
Embara River
Address
Embara, Yamagata-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
70 min by car from Gifu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Magomejuku is an area flourished as a post-town of Nakasendo Road. There're old houses along the road still now. I tried to take the mountains with houses together in one picture thanks to the houses t\standing on a slope, I could enjoy taking pictures. It's famous as a stage of a novel "Yoake-mae" (Before the Dawn) by Toson Shimazaki, whose beginning is 'Kiso Roads are all in the mountains'.◎Parking area is available. We can use bus from JR Nakatsugawa Station.
Name
Magomejuku
Address
Magome, Nakatsugawa-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
25 min by bus from JR Nakatsugawa Station to Magome. By car or taxi, 15 min from Sakashita Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort's run has as many as 30 thousand Kochia and seasonal flowers. In this spacious flower fields, I could feel refreshed so much.
Name
Hirugano Kogen Kochia Park
Address
4670-75 Takasu-cho, Gujo-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Tel
0575-73-2311
Hours
8:30-17:00
Fee
Adult 500 yen、Child 300 yen
How to get there
By car or taxi, 20 min from Hokuno Starion, 90 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Flower Festival Commemorative Park has beautiful flowers all around the year, but I think the rose festival in spring is the most amazing. For it's the biggest scale in Tokai Region, please visit here!◎Access: 5 min by car from Kanimitake IC of Tokai Kanjo Speedway. Rose Festival is opened till 6/17. On holidays during the rose festival, it'll be very crowded, and there's no extra parking area, so please try to visit in early morning or evening to avoid the traffic jam.
Name
Flower Festival Commemorative Park
Address
1584-1 Seta, Kani-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Hours
9:00-17:00
Closed
Tue
How to get there
60 min by train from Nagoya Station to Kani Station, then, 10 min by bus or taxi. By car, 5 min from Kanimitake IC.
Parking
Parking area is available
I took a boat to see Ukai (cormorant fishing). It was as close as I could feel the heat of the bonfire. There're dynamic motions in the silence, I gazed in wonder at that sight.◎5/11-10/15 in 2018. If you want to take a boat, reservation is better. The fees for the boat: 3100-3400 yen.
Name
Nagara River Cormorant Fishing
Address
1-2 Minato-machi, Gifu-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 3400 yen、Child 1700 yen
How to get there
By bus, 20 min from Gifu Station to Nagara-bashi Bridge, then 1 min walk. By car or taxi, 15 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Funamachi Kawaminato is designated as a place of scenic beauty. There're lanterns lightened at the stone-walled river side, and they recall the good-old time. Ōgaki River Boat to see the full-bloom cherry blossom is also enjoyable. The parking area at Okuno Hosomichi Museum is available.
Name
Funamachi Park
Address
1-28 Funamachi, Ogaki-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min walk from Nishi Ōgaki Station or Ōgaki Station.
The sky changing its colors every moment and Nagara River meandering like a dragon. I wonder what generals in Sengoku era (the Age of Civil) thought standing here in a hill. You can see the fascinating view that lets you forget the place or time.
Name
Mt. Kinka
Address
Senjyojikisita, Gifu-shi, GifuGoogle Map
In 2018, Nagaragawa Chūnichi Firework Festival was postponed for a month because of typhoon. In addition, the other firework festivals in this area were canceled, so many people visited this year.
Name
Nagaragawa Chūnichi Firework Festival
Address
Between Nagara Bridge and Kinka Bridge. the side of Nagara River, Gifu-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
Shuttle bus is available from JR Gifu Station. By car or taxi, 8 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Hyotenka-no Mori (Sub-Zero Forest) at Akigami Onsen Town in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. People sprinkle water to make these ice pillars, and they look blue in daytime and are lighted up in rainbow colors at night. It's very cold at night, so you need thick winter clothes.
Name
Hyotenka-no Mori (Sub-Zero Forest)
Address
Akigami Onsen Ryokan 355 Kurumi Jima, Asahi-cho, Takayama-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
60 min by bus from JR Takayama Station to Akigami Onsen
Parking
Free parking area is available
A museum that condenses and reproduces the old village of Hida Takayama. The winter illuminations is held from the middle of January to the end of February. The illuminations light gently the snow lying on the pond and houses, waterdrops of icicles and trees shine like crystals. The scenery is breathtakingly beautiful.
Name
HIDA FOLK VILLAGE, HIDA NO SATO
Address
1-590 Kami Okamoto-machi, Takayama-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Tel
0577-34-4711
Hours
8:30-17:00
How to get there
It exhibits the nature environment of the headwaters-to-entry of three rivers running Kiso Area, and freshwater fish in the world. We can see also capybara and Asian short-clawed otter, and beautiful arts of Mino Washi (Japanese paper). Admission fees: adult 1500 yen, child 370~1100 yen.
Name
World Freshwater Aquarium Aquatotto Gifu
Address
1453 Kawashima Kasada-machi, , Kakamigahara-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Tel
0586-89-8200
Hours
9:30-17:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]9:30-18:00
Fee
Adult 1500 yen、Child 370 yen
How to get there
15 min by car or taxi from Kisogawa Station
Parking
Parking area is available
Since the distance between the bridges is not so long, when you take a zoom from the next bridge, you can take a nice picture as if it is buried in the cherry blossoms in full bloom. I took this on April 6th, 2019.
Name
Cherry Blossom In Nakasu-gawa River
Address
3 Shiro, Ampachi-cho, Ampachi-gun, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min by car or taxi from Gifu Hashima Station.
20 min mountain climbing that is good for exercise. I was more exhausted than I expected, the great scenery looking over the observatory let my fatigue away. What's more, the local guides were very kind.
Name
Machu Picchu In Gifu 'Tea Plantation In The Sky'
Address
1940 Kasuga Rokugo Ibigawa-cho, Ibi-gun, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 60 min from Gifu city, 90 min from Nagoya city. Parking area is available. 20 min walk from the parking area to the observatory.
Parking
Parking area is available
Yumori Park holds Momiji Festival. There're many enjoyable stalls. This park is famous for waterfalls and I like Ryujin Falls which is very beautiful. Nakatsugawa is famous for Kuri Kinton (sweet chestnut paste) as a local specialty food, so both of them are in best time now.
Name
Yumori Park
Address
1057-4 Kawaue, Nakatsugawa-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By car or taxi, 15 min from Sakashita Station, 120 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
A red bank of cluster amaryllis. On windless days, the river reflects the red flowers and the sky beautifully on the surface.
Name
Tsuya-gawa River Bank
Address
Shizu Nan'nou-cho, Kaizu-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min walk from Minotsuya Station. By car or taxi, 50 min from Gifu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
The town atmosphere is nice of course, the Gero hot spring town blanketed in snow seen from the 173 steps high is very tasteful and nice as well.
Name
Onsenji Temple
Address
680 Yunoshima, Gero-shi, GifuGoogle Map
Tel
0576-25-2465
Hours
6:00-
How to get there
In Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, Sunomata Ichiya-jo Castle has a legend that Hideyoshi Toyotomi built it within a night. In the museum inside a castle, you can see the success of Hideyoshi. There're many stalls along the bank, so you can enjoy all day!◎Parking area near the bank is for 500 yen.
Name
Sunomata Ichiya-jo Castle
Address
1742-1 Sunomata Sunomata-cho, Ogaki-shi, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 20min from Gifu Hashima IC, or 30min from Ogaki IC. By bus, 25min from Ogaki Station to Sunomata, then walk 12min.
From Tenshukaku Observatory, you can have a stunning view of Shirakawago like you see in a travel brochures. I felt deep emotion that I could come to a world heritage 'Shirakawago' in front of this breathtaking scenery. You must visit this observatory if you come to Shirakawago though it's not so large observatory.◎Though you find a long line of people to wait a shuttle bus to the observatory, you can ride it sooner than you expect because many people can take one bus at once. Some guidebooks say it takes 30 min walk to the observatory, but the local people told us it's not good to walk in winter because we may happen to meet the snow falling down on the way to the observatory.
Name
Tenshukaku Observatory
Address
Restaurant TENSHUKAKU 889 Ogimachi Shirakawa-mura, Ono-gun, GifuGoogle Map
How to get there
