While paying for lunch at Hirajin, I ask off-handedly if the restaurant has a long history. The wooden building, whose backside overlooks the Yoshida River, doesn’t look particularly old, but a small ...

The town of Gujo Hachiman is the centre of the replica food industry now worth an estimated $90m With a gentle swish through hot water, and some deft tearing and shaping, Kurumi Kono turns a ...

GUJO-HACHIMAN, GIFU PREF. – Alan Booth, a writer rarely given to dispensing easy compliments, could be a dyspeptic traveler when destinations did not live up to his expectations. After a long walk ...

Travelers who stray off the beaten path in Japan can find quiet moments in nature, fresh cuisine and immersive cultural experiences. I found my zen in Gifu Prefecture, an underrated gem in the ...

Gujo Hachiman Castle is a mountain castle located in Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. This castle is known as one of Japan’s most beautiful wooden castles. In recent years, it has also been called Gifu ...

The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the scores of revelers, as well as the live festival music and clacking geta wooden clogs. For more than 400 years, it has been ...

For a town so closely associated with water, it's rather fitting that Gujo-Hachiman is shaped like a fish. "An ayu (sweetfish), to be exact," clarifies Yuka Tanaka, my guide for the afternoon and a ...

Walk down any street in any city in Japan and you'll see them: Mouthwatering plates of food in what can seem like every shop window, beckoning you into restaurants that sell everything from ramen to ...

It is no secret that Hongkongers love travelling to Japan. From January to March this year, the country has already clocked more than 8 million overseas visitors, according to JTB Tourism Research and ...

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