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Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) The Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art is a prefectural art museum that collects, preserves, and exhibits artworks from within and outside the prefecture. Its collection encompasses a wide range of genres, from contemporary art to modern and contemporary Japanese and Western paintings, prints, and sculptures, and it also places emphasis on works by artists with ties to the region and related to Gifu. It regularly hosts...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Nagara River Cormorant Fishing is a demonstration of the traditional fishing method, "Ukai," held every spring through autumn on the Nagara River, which flows through Gifu City. Cormorant fishermen use cormorants to swim around the river's surface at night, catching fish that gather around the lit bonfires (bonfires on the cormorant fishing boats). Nagara...

Overview (History, Features, and Attractions) Gifu Castle is the remains of a castle and its reconstructed castle tower, located on the summit of Mount Kinka (approximately 329 meters above sea level) in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture. During the Sengoku period, it served as a base for the Mori and Saito clans as "Inabayama Castle." In 1567, Oda Nobunaga captured the castle and renamed it "Gifu Castle." The castle is...