Gifu

  • Gujo-Hachiman: Are You Dancing?
    September 24th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    Gujo is rightly famous for it’s dance festival, considered amongst the top three in the country by whoever decides these things. Initiated over 400 years ago in an act of socialist generosity by Endo Yoshitaka, the festival was meant as a way of levelling Japan’s rigid social hierarchy and bringing the whole community together. Today » Continue Reading
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  • Magome and Tsumago: Following the Footsteps
    June 10th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    All roads led to Tokyo. Anyone who has travelled in Japan will have heard of the Tokaido, even if they didn’t know the significance of the word. The eastern sea road ran between the Emperor’s court in Kyoto and the Shogun’s capital in Edo (Tokyo). Now it’s the name given to » Continue Reading
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  • Yoro Park and the Site of Reversible Destiny
    May 12th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    At the western edge of Gifu Prefecture, resting between the mountains and Ibigawa river lies Yoro, a daytrip idyll. Gifu can be short of ideas for those with children during the warmer months, but Yoro provides an inexpensive, varied and fun day for all. Yoro park has grown around Yoro Falls, » Continue Reading
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  • Meiji Mura and Showa Mura
    March 11th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    The Meiji era ran from 1968 to 1912, and all aspects of Japanese culture underwent fundamental change as Japan opened its ports to the outside world. Architecture is one area in which this shift is most obviously seen, as tastes moved from the traditional wooden structures to embrace western styles and » Continue Reading
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  • Kamikochi – My favourite place in Japan
    March 2nd, 2009By Iain Maloney
    Kamikochi is, without a doubt, my favourite place in Japan. It is an area of astoundning natural beauty in the highlands of Gifu easily reachable from Takayama and Matsumoto. Jagged snow-covered alpine peaks encircle a network of small lakes, melt-water rivers, winding forest trails and mountain routes. In the mists of history, » Continue Reading
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  • Takayama and Shirakawago
    February 6th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    If you ask natives of Gifu where to visit, the first response is invariably “Takayama”. Up in the Gifu highlands, near the border with Nagano, it is a famous and popular destination. » Continue Reading
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