# Michi-no-Eki Okuhida Onsengo Kamitakara

> A small Route 471 station beside the Takahara River, on the way into the Okuhida hot spring villages. Pick up local wasabi and hoba miso, eat char or Hida beef, and note the large campground next door.

- Prefecture: Gifu
- Type: Michi no eki
- Address: Takayama, Gifu, Japan
- Hours note: Shorter hours from November to March, and listings disagree on a winter closing day. The campground and its bath are closed in winter and reserved for campers.
- Parking and toilets: free, open 24 hours
- Official site: https://www.cbr.mlit.go.jp/michinoeki/gifu/gifu08.html

Kamitakara is one of the older roadside stations in Gifu, registered in 1994 and opened the following year. It is not a big complex. There is a free rest area, a product hall and a dining room, set on Route 471 where the Takahara River valley opens up below the Northern Alps. Shin-Hotaka and Tochio hot springs are further up the same road.

The product hall sells locally grown hon-wasabi, pickles, Okuhida sansho pepper products and hoba miso, the miso grilled on a magnolia leaf that is a Hida staple. The dining room serves iwana (char) dishes and Hida beef. Beside the station, the Okuhida Onsengo Auto Campground has about 175 sites and an open-air bath for its campers. That bath is not a public footbath for passing drivers, and the campground closes for winter.

Hours are shorter from November to March, and some listings show a weekly closing day in winter. Check before driving up in the cold months. The road is mountainous, and snow tires are essential in winter.

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Source: Michi-no-Eki Okuhida Onsengo Kamitakara — Japan Voyage