Gifu Prefecture · Japan
Where to stay in Gifu
Gifu is a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, home to about 400,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Gifu.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- NKM24 km · Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base
- Currency
- JPYyen
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Language
- Japanese
About
About Gifu
Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important strategic role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country.
The local Convention and Visitors Bureau has a Japanese-only guide site with integrated machine translation.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Gifu
See
- Gifu Castle
- Gifu City Museum of History
- Nawa Insect Museum
- Katō Eizō-Tōichi Memorial Art Museum
- Gifu Park
- Shōhō-ji
- Sankō Art Museum
- Kogane Shrine
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
- Gifu City Science Museum
- Cormorant Fishing
Do
Ukai (cormorant fishing) occurs every year between May 11th and October 15th on the Nagara River. Gifu City is the only place where this tradition has continued uninterrupted for 1300 years. Silent film actor Charlie Chaplin requested to stop in Gifu for the event on 2 separate visits to Japan, describing it as "Japan's highest art form". You, too, can watch this spectacular event by boarding a viewing boat or watching from the banks of the river. Most of the action is upriver from Nagara-bashi. Tour boats begin embarking from about 18:00 (for those serving dinner aboard) until 18:30 or 19:00 (a bit later during the peak of summer).
- Mt. Kinka
- Nagara River Fireworks Festival
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Gifu
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Toyoko Inn Gifu hotel |
Where to stay
Which part of Gifu to stay in
There are numerous business hotels near JR Gifu Station. Stingy backpackers may wish to note that whilst Gifu does have one manga cafe, it offers a single tatami with a table covering half of it as its flat booth, making it not really one suitable for sleeping within.
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Where to stay
More hotels in Gifu
6 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Comfort Hotel Gifu | 2002 | 1.7 km |
| Miyako Hotel Gifu Nagaragawa | 1995 | 1.8 km |
| ホテルパーク | 2.0 km | |
| Gifu Washington Hotel Plaza | 1.4 km | |
| Hotel Resol Gifu | 1.6 km | |
| Juhachiro | 1.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Gifu
Gifu has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 33 °C; July is the wettest, with about 256 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Gifu: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base (NKM), about 24 km from the city centre in a straight line; Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO, 63 km) and Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ, 112 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Gifu City is serviced by the Meitetsu-run Gifu Bus as well as JR Buses. JR passes are accepted on JR buses. Gifu Park, where the castle and other popular sites are located, is about a 45 minute walk from Gifu Station, so most travelers opt to take a bus. Buses to the area run about every 10 minutes. There are three rent-a-cycle stations in downtown Gifu (JR Gifu Station, Gifu City Hall South Branch, and Gifu Park). Rental bikes for ¥100 per day.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
NKM · Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base
NGO · Chubu Centrair International Airport
KMQ · Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base
Questions
Gifu: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Gifu?
Gifu has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 33 °C; July is the wettest, with about 256 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Gifu?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base (NKM), about 24 km from the city centre in a straight line; Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO, 63 km) and Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ, 112 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Gifu?
yen (JPY).
Nearby
Destinations near Gifu
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.