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岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Oi-juku

恵那市東濃

A post town on the Nakasendo. Small shrines praying for safe travel still stand along the road.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Takamine Jinja

中津川市東濃

Known as a district where the anti-Buddhist movement of early Meiji was carried out to the letter.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Onsenji (Gero)

下呂市中濃

It carries a legend that a white heron showed people where the water rose. You climb 173 stone steps.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Hakusan Chukyo Jinja

郡上市中濃

The Mino-side starting point for the climb up Hakusan. Great cedars stand in rows.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Ochobo Inari

海津市西濃

Ochobo-san. It fills with worshippers through the night at the end of each month.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Ogaki Hachiman Jinja

大垣市西濃

Water wells up freely in its grounds, the emblem of the city of water.

岐阜県 · Shrines & temples

Tanigumisan

揖斐川町西濃

Souvenir shops line the approach. Pilgrims who had completed the circuit gathered here.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Mizubune

郡上市中濃

A system that divides spring water into three tiers for different uses. A life that reveres water, surviving as it was.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Kinkazan

岐阜市岐阜

The mountain castle from which Nobunaga proclaimed rule over the realm. It looks down on the cormorant fishing of the Nagara river.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Magome-juku

中津川市東濃

A post town along a paved slope, and the birthplace of Shimazaki Toson.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Nagaragawa Ukai

岐阜市岐阜

A fishing method that has run for more than 1,300 years. The masters hold office under the Imperial Household Agency.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Kasuga Jinja (Seki)

関市中濃

The shrine the swordsmiths took as their tutelary god. The source of the blades of Seki.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Wadake

白川村飛騨

The largest gassho-zukuri house in Shirakawa-go. Silkworms were raised in the roof space.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Takayama Jinya

高山市飛騨

The only Edo-period magistrate's office still standing anywhere in Japan, proof that Hida was ruled directly by the shogunate.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Shirakawa-go

白川村飛騨

Gassho-zukuri houses. The roofs stand at 60 degrees to shed snow, and silkworms were raised beneath them.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Sanmachi

高山市飛騨

Townhouses with projecting lattice windows stand in rows. The little Kyoto of Hida.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Gujo Odori

郡上市中濃

Thirty-two nights of dancing, four of them through till dawn over Obon. Anyone may join the circle.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Takayama Matsuri

高山市飛騨

Mechanical puppets on the floats. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Gifu-jo

岐阜市岐阜

The mountain castle from which Nobunaga proclaimed rule over the realm. A ropeway runs up.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Nagaragawa Ukai

岐阜市岐阜

A fishing method of 1,300 years. The masters hold office under the Imperial Household Agency.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Gero Onsen

下呂市中濃

One of the three finest springs of Japan. Hayashi Razan set it beside Arima and Kusatsu.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Seki Cutlery

関市中濃

Swordsmithing since the Kamakura period. Today a world centre for kitchen knives and scissors.

岐阜県 · Tourism

Mino Udatsu

美濃市中濃

Merchant houses made rich by washi. More udatsu firewalls survive here than anywhere.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu

岐阜市岐阜

One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.