Gifu
Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital.
Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important strategic role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country. During the Sengoku period, various warlords used the area as a base in their efforts to unify and control Japan. Among them was Oda Nobunaga, who gave the region the name it is known by today. Gifu continued to flourish even after Japan's unification as both an important shukuba along the Edo period Nakasendō and, later, as one of Japan's fashion centers. It has been designated a core city by the national government. The city is a part of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, centered around Nagoya.
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Worth seeing in and around Gifu
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Gifu Castle
Kinka, and the main attraction is a 360-degree panoramic view from the top floor.
- 02Gifu City Museum of History
There are exhibition corners where you can experience history while being introduced to it.
- 03Nawa Insect Museum
- 04Katō Eizō-Tōichi Memorial Art Museum
- 05Gifu Park
Places of interest in Gifu Park are a statue of Nobunaga, the Oda Nobunaga Palace Ruins, the Kabukimon, the Gifu City Museum of History, and the Nawa Insect Museum.
- 06Shōhō-ji
The Gifu Daibutsu (Great Statue of Buddha) is located southwest of Gifu Park in the Colossal Hall of the Great Buddha here at Kinpōzan Shōhō-ji Temple.
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Things to do
Ukai (cormorant fishing) occurs every year between May 11th and October 15th on the Nagara River. Gifu City is the only place where this tradition has continued uninterrupted for 1300 years. Silent film actor Charlie Chaplin requested to stop in Gifu for the event on 2 separate visits to Japan, describing it as "Japan's highest art form".
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Where to eat
- 01El Paso
Serves the best and widest selection of Mexican food (TexMex) & drinks in Gifu.
- 02Gishu
The most popular gyoza restaurant in the city.
- 03The NEMS
2-12-2 Kinen-cho (One kilometer east-southeast of Gifu Station, between the Meitetsu and JR tracks).
- 04Rodeo Roundup
Akutami-cho (On highway 156, 500 meters north of the post office.).
- 05Aka Noren
From Wikivoyage: Gifu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Gifu
- Airports
- Chubu Centrair (NGO), 63 km · Komatsu / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ), 112 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 140 km
- Stations
- Gifu Station, 1.6 km · Meitetsu Gifu Station, 1.3 km · Kasamatsu Station, 5.4 km · Nishi-Gifu Station, 4 km · Hozumi Station, 6.8 km
- Tokoname → Gifu59 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ¥760–1,040
- Osaka → Gifu140 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · ¥1,840–2,510
- Kanazawa → Gifu132 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · ¥2,070–2,820
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gifu
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gifu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Gifu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gifu
Gifu is 14 km from Ichinomiya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.