# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Shirakawa-go](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shirakawa-go): Gifu, Historic site. UNESCO World Heritage village with traditional gassho-zukuri thatched-roof farmhouses in a remote mountain valley.
- [Takayama Old Town](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/takayama-old-town): Gifu, Historic site. Beautifully preserved Edo-period merchant streets with sake breweries, traditional shops, and morning markets.
- [Gujo Hachiman](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gujo-hachiman): Gifu, Historic site. A scenic Gifu castle town famous for its clear waterways, the all-night Gujo Odori dance festival, and the art of food replica making.
- [Magome-juku](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/magome-juku): Gifu, Historic site. A beautifully preserved post town on the historic Nakasendo trail, featuring a steep stone-paved main street lined with wooden buildings, water wheels, and mountain views.
- [Shinhotaka Ropeway](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shinhotaka-ropeway): Gifu, Landmark. A ropeway in the Okuhida hot spring area of Takayama that carries passengers to a viewpoint over the Northern Japan Alps, using a double-decker cabin on its upper section.
- [Gero Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gero-onsen): Gifu, Onsen. One of Japan's three great onsen towns alongside Kusatsu and Arima, celebrated for its silky alkaline waters that leave skin remarkably smooth. The riverside town offers free foot baths, charming streets, and a relaxed atmosphere.
- [Gifu Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gifu-castle): Gifu, Castle. A reconstructed castle on the summit of Mt. Kinka, reached by the Kinkazan Ropeway from Gifu Park. The keep and its museum are closed for renovation until a planned reopening in November 2027.
- [Hida Furukawa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hida-furukawa): Gifu, Historic site. A preserved old-town district in Hida city with white-walled storehouses lining the Setogawa canal, where carp swim from spring to autumn.
- [Nagara River Cormorant Fishing](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nagara-river-cormorant-fishing): Gifu, Attraction. A traditional form of fishing on the Nagara River in Gifu city, in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch sweetfish, watched from viewing boats on summer evenings.
- [Yoro Falls](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoro-falls): Gifu, Park. A waterfall about 30 metres high within Yoro Park, listed among Japan's 100 notable waterfalls.
- [Mount Norikura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-norikura): Gifu, Mountain. A volcano on the Gifu and Nagano border where the bus does most of the climbing: Tatamidaira, at 2,702 m, is the highest bus stop in Japan, and the 3,026 m summit, Kengamine, is about 90 minutes' walk away. Private cars are banned on both access roads, so everyone rides the shuttle.
- [Hida Folk Village (Hida no Sato)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hida-folk-village-hida-no-sato): Gifu, Museum. An open-air museum of about 30 old farmhouses, storehouses and workshops moved here from across the Hida region, four of them Important Cultural Properties. It is a short bus ride from central Takayama, open daily, and costs 700 yen.
- [Okuhida Onsengo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okuhida-onsengo): Gifu, Onsen. Five onsen villages strung along the valleys east of Takayama: Hirayu, Fukuji, Shin-Hirayu, Tochio and Shin-Hotaka. There are about 140 inns and nearly all have an outdoor bath. Two cheap public ones are open as of October 2026: Arajin-no-yu in Tochio all year, and the riverside Shin-Hotaka-no-yu until 30 October.
- [Michi-no-Eki Heisei](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-heisei): Gifu, Michi no eki. A small station in the hills of Seki, in a district written with the same characters as the Heisei era. Locals read it Henari. Come for log-grown shiitake, a shiitake katsudon and a foot bath.
- [Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/chiune-sugihara-memorial-hall): Gifu, Museum. A small cypress-built museum in the Hill of Humanity park in Yaotsu about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas who wrote visas for Jewish refugees in the summer of 1940. Adults pay 500 yen; getting there without a car takes planning.

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Last updated: 2026-11-03