Oda Nobunaga, the first of Japan’s three “Great Unifiers,” occupied Gifu Castle in 1567 and is responsible for changing the name of the area from “Inokuchi” to “Gifu.” During World War II, the castle was destroyed during an air raid, and was rebuilt in 1956. Now, visitors who come to Gifu Castle can explore four stories of exhibits including relics such as armor, weapons, and paintings. The main highlight of the castle is the top floor, where visitors can see the Nagaragawa River stretching across Gifu. 
In addition to Gifu Castle, there are different activities to do in the area, such as visiting Squirrel Village, hiking up Mt. Kinka and visiting the multiple shrines and the Gifu Castle Archives Museum on the way to the top. If you are not a fan of hiking, you can take the ropeway which starts at Gifu Koen Park. As you go up, enjoy the nature that surrounds you and the beautiful view of the city.

织田信长是日本三位 "大统一者 "中的第一位，他于 1567 年占领了岐阜城，并将该地区的名称从 "猪口 "改为 "岐阜"。第二次世界大战期间，岐阜城在空袭中被毁，1956 年重建。现在，游客来到岐阜城，可以参观四层楼高的展厅，其中包括盔甲、武器和绘画等文物。岐阜城的最大亮点是顶层，游客可以在这里看到横跨岐阜的长良川。 
除了岐阜城之外，游客还可以在该地区开展各种活动，如参观松鼠村、徒步攀登金刚山，以及在登山途中参观多个神社和岐阜城档案博物馆。如果您不喜欢徒步旅行，可以乘坐从岐阜公园出发的索道。在登山途中，您可以欣赏周围的自然风光和城市美景。

参观织田信长（日本三大统一者之首）于 1567 年占领的重建岐阜城，欣赏城顶美景。             

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站在岐阜城的山顶，您可以欣赏到周边地区壮丽的天际线，鲜艳的橙色夕阳照亮了整座城市。 

Visit the reconstructed Gifu Castle, occupied by Oda Nobunaga (the first of Japan’s three Great Unifiers) in 1567, and admire the view from the top.             

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Scenic Gifu Prefecture is located in the center of Japan, on the nation’s main island of Honshu. It is known for its picturesque historic villages, stunning mountainous terrain, relaxing hot spring baths, fertile plains, and traditional practices.

Shirakawago and Gokayama have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Site for their dedication to preserving the distinct Gassho-style architecture. The Gassho-zukuri village is composed of traditional farmhouses (some that are over 250 years old) with thatched roofs, designed to withstand snow in the winter and stay cool in the summer. 

Another town that history buffs must visit is Gujo Hachiman, which is renowned for its clear, crisp drinking water and as Japan’s major producer of plastic food replicas. Stunning waterways cross the town, with charming cobblestone streets at every turn, and Hachiman Castle towers over it all, housing a museum of samurai era artifacts.

Those who love the idea of relaxing in the onsen hot springs against a scenic mountainous backdrop should come to Okuhida. The Okuhida Hot Springs provide a variety of bath styles, from rotemburo (open air baths) to public bath houses.

Wondering what to eat in Gifu? Kei-chan chicken is a local dish made of chicken that’s marinated in an aromatic mixture of garlic, miso, and soy sauce, and stir-fried with vegetables like cabbage. It’s usually enjoyed during the summer Obon Festival season and Japanese New Year holiday. For something more luxurious, try Hida beef, a well-marbled brand of kuroge wagyu raised in Gifu Prefecture, and a rival of Matsusaka and Kobe beef.

But the food culture that Gifu is proudest of is their tradition of cormorant fishing, which has been practiced along the Nagara River for over 1300 years. The part of the river that runs through Gujo is particularly conducive to fishing high-quality ayu sweetfish, which are sold to Michelin-starred restaurants. While ayu can be enjoyed in a variety of ways, the simplest preparations are often the tastiest, and the fish is often grilled over an open fire and seasoned with just salt. Gifu also has a sweet treat that’s similar to taiyaki (a sea-bream shaped cake filled with red bean), except that it is made in the shape of ayu and filled with <a href="https://www.byfood.com/blog/travel-tips/the-beginners-guide-to-mochi">mochi</a>. It’s a perfect dessert following a meal of the local sweetfish delicacy.

风景优美的岐阜县位于日本本州岛中部。岐阜县以风景如画的历史古村落、令人惊叹的山地地形、令人放松的温泉浴场、肥沃的平原和传统习俗而闻名。

白川乡和五箇山因致力于保护独特的合掌式建筑而被联合国教科文组织列为世界遗产。Gassho-Zukuri 村庄由传统的农舍组成（有些农舍已有 250 多年的历史），茅草屋顶的设计可以在冬天抵御风雪，在夏天保持凉爽。

另一个历史爱好者必去的小镇是郡上八幡（Gujo Hachiman），这里以清澈甘冽的饮用水和日本主要的塑料食品仿制品生产地而闻名。八幡城高耸入云，是一座武士时代的文物博物馆。

如果您喜欢在风景优美的山区背景下泡温泉，那就来奥飞驒吧。奥飞驒温泉提供从露天浴场到公共浴场等各种浴场。

想知道岐阜有什么美食吗？Kei-chan 鸡肉是一种当地菜肴，将鸡肉用大蒜、味噌和酱油混合腌制，然后与卷心菜等蔬菜一起炒。通常在夏季盂兰盆节和日本新年期间享用。如果想品尝更奢华的菜肴，可以试试飞騨牛肉，这是一种在岐阜县饲养的黑毛和牛，纹理清晰，是松阪牛肉和神户牛肉的竞争对手。

不过，岐阜最引以为豪的饮食文化还是长良川沿岸 1300 多年的鸬鹚捕鱼传统。流经郡上的河段特别适合捕捞高品质的鲶鱼，这些鲶鱼被出售给米其林星级餐厅。鲶鱼的吃法多种多样，但最简单的做法往往是最美味的，通常用明火烤鱼，只用盐调味。岐阜还有一种甜点，类似于大烧饼（一种用红豆做馅的鲷鱼形蛋糕），只是做成了鲶鱼的形状，里面填满了&lt;a href="&lt;a href="https://www.byfood.com/blog/travel-tips/the-beginners-guide-to-mochi"&gt;mochi&lt;/a&gt;。这是吃完当地甜鱼美食后的完美甜点。

浏览岐阜的烹饪课程、品尝会、餐饮体验和美食之旅，岐阜以保存完好的历史村落、山地景观和温泉而闻名。

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岐阜县拥有保存完好的历史悠久的村落、山地景观和风景优美的露天温泉，以及数百年来引以为豪的美食遗产。 

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Gifu Prefecture is home to well-preserved historic villages, mountainous landscapes, and scenic open-air hot springs, with a proud culinary heritage spanning centuries. 

Stand at the top of Gifu Castle and take in the breathtaking skyline of the surrounding area, where you can see the bright orange sunset illuminating the city. 

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The Nagara River in Gifu Prefecture is associated with a local banquet culture called “funa asobi” (literally, “boat play,” meaning a type of boating excursion). This Nagara River boating experience combines the area’s 1300-year-old tradition of cormorant fishing with Gifu Prefecture's culture of geisha and maiko. 

During this Nagara River Boating and Banquet with Geisha Experience, guests can enjoy a Japanese sake tasting and course meal with Japan’s professional entertainers. So, climb aboard the river boat and feel the breeze on your skin, marveling at the beautiful dances of maiko and geisha, and taste premium varieties of Japanese sake alongside your meal. The menu is seasonal and puts a spotlight on the natural bounty of the Nagara River. The casual course meal features several dishes using the local ayu sweetfish that the region is known for. 

Besides the stunning geisha, another once-in-a-lifetime view awaits. Up ahead, you can watch as fishermen practice the ancient method of cormorant fishing, known as “Ukai” in Japanese. This traditional style of fishing uses trained birds to catch ayu sweetfish. The cormorants are tied to the fishermen’s boat with leashes, and dive into the water in pursuit of fish. In the hands of the skilled fishermen, they give up their catch. These ayu sweetfish end up on the tables of lucky diners in Gifu, and even Michelin-starred restaurants in Tokyo. 

Witness the action for yourself during this exclusive dining experience in Gifu!

Cruising down the Nagara River in Gifu, enjoy a banquet with Japanese sake and live performances by geisha. The meal spotlights seasonal ingredients and local fish, which you can see being caught using the ancient method of cormorant fishing.

Be joined by geisha, professional Japanese entertainers, for an evening of boating and feasting on the Nagara River in Gifu Prefecture. Book now on byFood!

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Kawaramachi in Gifu Prefecture was a prosperous port during the Edo era, located along the Nagara River. This charming neighborhood in Gifu City is renowned for its traditional crafts and confectioneries, as well as its well-preserved old architecture. History is alive in Kawaramachi, and today, it is famous for the 1300-year-old practice of Ukai (cormorant fishing), which uses cormorant birds to catch ayu sweetfish in the evening, by the light of a burning fire.  
 
This ayu dining experience will allow guests to taste the local cuisine of Kawaramachi, featuring ayu sweetfish prepared in a variety of ways over the 9-course meal, including charcoal-grilled, as tempura, and in a sushi roll. The masterfully-crafted meal places a spotlight on this regional delicacy, culminating with an exceptional bowl of ayu ramen. The broth is light, but packed with umami, and topped off with a fillet of ayu that has been grilled over charcoal. 
 
Join this dining experience to experience the authentic and unique ayu cuisine of the Nagara River region. If you’re visiting Gifu Prefecture, this ayu dining experience must be a part of your itinerary, and if not, the local traditions make Gifu worth a special trip. 
 
The dishes in this ayu course meal include:
-Appetizer platter
-Grilled sweetfish sushi roll
-Ayu rillette, white ripe cream and seasonal vegetable salad
-Charcoal-grilled / natural ayu salt-yaki
-Charcoal grilled / ayu urakayaki (cultured sweetfish)
-Tempura of young ayu and seasonal vegetables (ayu sansho salt)
-Pickles / tsukudani
-Homemade gelato
-Ayu ramen

This nine-course meal features ayu sweetfish, the product of the 1300-year old practice of cormorant fishing. Unique to the waters that flow through Gifu, the versatile fish is prepared as sushi, charcoal-grilled, fried into tempura, and more!

The fruits of centuries-old cormorant fishing practices in Gifu, have a taste of the ayu sweetfish across an array of courses during this dining experience. Book now

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La Lucanda is a cozy Italian restaurant in Gifu prefecture. The chef is from Milano and has experience working as a chef in London and Paris. There is also a cafe where you can enjoy desserts that are made by an exclusive patissier. 

The interior is modern with some bohemian flair, featuring handmade local goods and art, as well as decorative greenery. Up the stairs, you’ll enter the restaurant, a cozy space with an open kitchen and counter seating, as well as a few tables. 

For lunch, La Lucanda Italian Teishoku (¥1,400) includes salad, soup, antipasto, focaccia, and today’s pasta. Short course and full course menus are also available. You can add today’s main dish for ¥1,000.

At the cafe, there are various kinds of cakes and pastries. All the cakes and pastries go very well with La Lucanda’s special coffee, which is an authentic Italian-style coffee. 

For dinner, there are three types of courses for all budgets, going for ¥5,000, ¥8,000, and ¥10,000. Chef Luca Lattuada likes to serve fresh pasta as one of the courses at dinnertime so guests can get a taste of authentic handmade noodles. 

Alcoholic beverages are also available including Italian wine, homemade limoncello, Italian beer, and more.

La Lucanda is a Italian restaurant located in Gifu prefecture where you can savor authentic Italian cuisine that uses local ingredients. 

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This restaurant in Gifu’s Kawaramachi area lies right by the Nagara River. This and the other rivers in the region are teeming with a favorite local delicacy: sweetfish (known as “ayu” in Japanese). Since 1887, Kawaramachi Izumiya has specialized in ayu, combining fresh wild fish with locally sourced vegetables.

Here you can enjoy these delicious fish grilled whole over charcoal for so long that even the bones break down and become edible. This makes the ayu incredibly soft-textured inside, but crispy on the outside. Alternatively, ramen fans can try a bowl of their signature noodle soup, which is topped with sun-dried ayu. 

All of these dishes and more can be enjoyed a la carte, but they also offer the full sweetfish experience in the form of a multi-course meal featuring over 10 dishes.

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You can find this well-known Chinese restaurant just a few blocks away from Gifu City Hall. Chef-owner Hirokazu Uno has refined his skills for years at famous restaurants in Tokyo and Gunma before opening up his own restaurant, Shosaichuka Hiro, with his wife. 

Uno strives for his restaurant to be more than just ramen and dumplings — there’s a wide variety of dishes on the menu including Taisho shrimp in Chengdu chili sauce. Every ingredient is sourced with the utmost care for quality and freshness. As seasonality plays a big part, keep an eye out for seasonal dishes like fluffy crab rice balls that are only available when the crab is in season. 

For those who are more adventurous in curating a meal on their own, Shosaichuka Hiro offers an a la carte menu. For the others who prefer to leave it up to the master chef of the restaurant, Shosaichuca Hiro offers course menus as well as lunch menus.

This 2 Michelin star Chinese restaurant in Takamicho is constantly evolving to create unique cuisine that can only be tasted here. Reserve on byFood!

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Originally owned by Hitoshi Furuta in 1978, Kaikatei is one of the most looked up to restaurants in Gifu Prefecture. Now, Kaikatei is managed by his oldest son, Takamichi, who has sworn to continue the Chinese culinary legacy of the restaurant.

The most famous dish is the caviar with cold rice noodles, inspired by Italian cuisine but deeply influenced by the Chinese style. Shark fin with Shantung soup, abalone liver with oyster sauce and Chinese white cabbage cream, fried dumplings with scallops and uni, and oyster sauce mixed with awabi liver are all classics of Hitoshi Furuta.

Kaikatei is always experimenting with different combinations of ingredients as well as creative techniques to elevate classic and contemporary Chinese cuisine. While the classic creative dishes, as well as seasonal ones, of Takamichi's father are still available on the menu, this current chef is always adding his own specialties, including sweetfish spring rolls for summer and tofu using tiger pufferfish roe for winter. 

This Chinese restaurant brings in new customers with their fantastic reputation, and keeps regulars who continuously drop by for their constant fix of the classic Chinese cuisine, always anticipating the new flavors that will be added on the menu. Regardless, it's safe to say Kaikatei is extremely popular, and with good reason, being one of the best Michelin star restaurants in Gifu.

Push the boundaries of your palate with mind-blowing Chinese food at Kaikatei, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Gifu that elevates classic Chinese cuisine.

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