Food & Drink

Take your pick from Gifu's tastiest cuisine, featuring delectables such as Hida beef, ayu (sweetfish), special regional dishes, and sake made from crystal clear waters - truly a treasure trove of tastes and a delight for the senses.

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Interweavings of History and Culture: Encountering Hida Takayama

Unravel the threads of Hida Takayama's culture steeped in history and cultivated in centuries of relative isolation as you visit its key locations accompanied by a local guide in this popular walking tour recommended for first-time visitors.

North Gifu

Intertwinings of Sake and Culture: Experience Hida Furukawa

Invigorate your senses as you experience the way of life in the mountains of Hida Furukawa, and how it connects and blesses people across generations.

North Gifu

Savor the Rich Flavors of Takayama: Regional Cuisine Cooking Class

Welcome to the tasty culinary world of Hida Takayama! Featuring the mouth-wateringly rich and earthy flavors cultivated deep in the heart of the mountains, prepared using the very best of nature's bounty.

North Gifu

Takayama Townhouse Culinary Lessons and Connections: Regional Cooking Class and Fellowship with Locals

Chop, simmer, and boil your way to making tasty seasonal culinary delights in the local way using ingredients such as Hida beef, Hida vegetables and seafood from the Hokuriku region, with a huge Japanese machiya (townhouse) built 200 years ago in an old merchant town as a very special setting.

North Gifu

Friendly Deception: Traditional tomozuri fishing and prized salt-grilled sweetfish

Fish for Gifu's renowned ayu (sweetfish) using a method tried and tested by time! Discover the goodness of "Ayu of the Nagara River System," a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS).

Central Gifu

Past Reignited: 1-Day Ena and Iwamura Tour, time travel through Edo ukiyo-e and a Sengoku castle town

Ride the waves of time, back into the Sengoku and Edo period with this tour jam-packed with the many highlights of Ena and Imamura - from art at the museum of Hiroshige ukiyo-e prints, legendary tales at the Iwamura Castle Ruins and tales of the “Onna Joshu” (lady castle lord), history of the Sengoku cuisine and sake, and culture of the Kakeuchi (sake store where you can drink at).

Southeast Gifu

Poetry in Motion: Mizu-manju making, masu making, sake brewery and tasting tour in Ogaki

Experience it all for yourself here, where folk tales are born of, that speak of the intimate connection between the lives of the local people and the sustenance afforded by water.