Gifu Prefecture

A venerable Buddhist temple in Konan, Aichi, founded in the early 14th century at Emperor GoDaigo’s request. Its grounds are known for spectacular wisterias, with a nearby park hosting the Konan Wisteria Festival each spring.

Ena Jinja in Takayama is a candidate for the Ena shrine of the tenthcentury Engishiki register and enshrines Takamimusubi. Long known as the Koyasu shrine of childbirth, it was identified and revived in 1815 by the Takayama scholar Tanaka Ohide, who served...

Dairyūji is a Rinzai Buddhist temple in Gifu, Japan, associated with the Mino Thirtythree Kannon pilgrimage. Founded in the Asuka period, it is also known for its annual Daruma memorial service, during which thousands of dolls are ceremonially burned.

Sakurayama Hachimangu is the shrine of northern Takayama, whose autumn festival on 9 and 10 October forms the Takayama Festival with Hie Jinja's spring one, an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Hachiman is enshrined with Yamato Takeru, Emperor...

Dairyuji sits at the eastern foot of Shiroyama in Takayama, founded in 1652 by the fourth Kanamori lord Yorinao, whose posthumous name gives the temple its own. It declined after the Kanamori left Hida and was revived as a Soto Zen temple in 1776. The...

Hakusan Chukyo (白山中居神社) is a Shinto shrine. Set within an urban neighborhood, it serves as a local place of Shinto worship and a useful cultural stop for visitors exploring the area's community shrines and everyday religious landscape.

Daioji is a Jodo temple on Takayama's Higashiyama temple walk, moved here in 1586 by the castle lord Kanamori Nagachika and once the head temple of Hida. Its 1807 twostorey gate and 1689 bell tower, the oldest in Hida, are works of Hida master carpenters and...

Ena Shrine is a Shinto shrine at the foot of Mt. Ena in Nakatsugawa, Gifu. The official site highlights blessings for safe childbirth, childbearing, first shrine visits, and household safety, along with legends linked to Amaterasu and local historical...