Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Gifu

Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

• Bairin Park
• Chusetsu Bridge
• Gifu City Central Library
• Kinoshita Park
• Jonan High School
• Godo Bridge
• Miyako Hotel Gifu Nagaragawa
• Aoyagi Park
• Gifu Park
• Mitahora Driving School
• Inaba Shrine
• Anraku-ji Temple
• Nobunaga Yume Plaza
• Nagara Bridge
• Cafe & Gallery Kawaramachiya
• Kasumori Park
• Nakasaba Bus Stop
• Chusetsu South Bus Stop
• Gifu Castle Rakuichi Rakuza
• Raconte
• Mt. Kinka Lookout
• Yanagase Hinodecho Shopping Arcade
• Gifu Station
• Yanagase Shopping Street
• Natural Cafe
• Cafe & Gallery Kawaramachiya
• Gifu City Tower 43

A Silent Voice

Midorikoi Bridge, Suimon River

The red arched bridge over the carp canal where Shoya and Shoko meet again.

Getting there: Ogaki Stn (JR Tokaido Line) · 12 min walk

Ogaki Station

The station the film opens and closes around; almost every location is within walking distance of the south exit.

Getting there: Ogaki Stn (JR Tokaido Line) · At the station

• Yoro Station
• Ogaki Park
• Shin-ohashi Bridge
• Shiki no Hiroba (Four Seasons Plaza)
• Ogaki Welfare Hall
• Ogaki Municipal Hospital
• Aoyagi Bridge
• Aqua Walk Ogaki
• Hachiman Shrine
• Gifu Station
• Nobunaga Yume Plaza
• Yoro Falls
• Yoro Park
• Site of Reversible Destiny
• Ogaki-Higashi High School (exterior only)
• Kobun Elementary School (exterior only)
• Former Ibigawa Rail Bridge
• Ibi Ohashi Bridge
• Kandamachi 1-chome Crossing
• Kobun Elementary School
• Ogaki City Hall
• Kanamachi 8-chome Crossing
• Tom Tom Barber Shop

Hyouka

Hie Shrine, Takayama

The model for Arakusu Shrine, where the New Year episode is set.

Getting there: Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Line) · 20 min walk

Kajibashi

The stone bridge over the Miyagawa in the opening titles and the walks between them.

Getting there: Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 10 min walk

Miyagawa riverside

The river bank below the old town, where the morning market runs along the water the series keeps returning to.

Getting there: Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 12 min walk

• Takayama City Library (Kanshokan)
• Kami-Sannomachi (Old Town)
• Takayama Station
• Takayama Jinya
• Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine
• Gifu Prefectural Hida High School
• Garyu Park
• Fudo Bridge
• Alps Kaido Hirayu
• Honmachi Street
• Tronchi
• Hirayu Folk Museum
• Yumotokan
• Ipponsugi Hakusan Shrine
• Hida High School
• Garyu Cherry Tree

No-Rin

Mino-Ota Station

Tamo Agricultural High School is drawn from Kamo Agricultural, and this is the station its students commute through.

Getting there: Mino-Ota Stn · At the station

• Gero Onsen
• Kamo Agricultural High School (exterior only)
• Aioi Station (Nagaragawa Railway)
• Kobi Neighborhood Park
• Fossil Forest Park
• Minokamo Bunka-no-Mori
• Gifu Seiryu Satoyama Park
• Minokamo High School (exterior only)
• Mount Tengu of Kobi

Let's Make a Mug Too

Eihoji Temple, Kokeizan

The garden temple in Tajimi, the pottery town the series is set in. Two of its halls are National Treasures.

Getting there: Tajimi Stn · 25 min walk

Tajimi Station

The station the characters meet at, under the Mino-ware wall panel in the concourse.

Getting there: Tajimi Stn (JR Chuo Main Line) · At the station

• Kokei Park
• Nagase Shopping Street, Tajimi
• Kokei Yosui Plaza
• World's Largest Mino-ware Komainu
• Tajimi City Hall
• Tajimi Bridge
• Fuji Ice
• Suigetsu Kiln

Higurashi: When They Cry

Shirakawa-go Gassho Village

Hinamizawa is drawn from Shirakawa-go, and the thatched farmhouses along the valley are the village the series keeps returning to.

Getting there: Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Line) + 50 min by bus · 3 min walk

Ogimachi Castle Ruins Viewpoint

The lookout the whole of Hinamizawa is drawn from — the valley of thatched roofs, seen end to end.

Getting there: Takayama + 50 min bus (Shirakawa-go) · 20 min walk

• Shirakawa Hachiman Shrine
• Wada House
• Miboro Dam
• Shirakawa-go Observation Deck
• Shirakawa Clean Center
• Ogimachi Akiba Shrine

Your Name.

Hida-Furukawa Station

Where Taki arrives searching for Itomori. The platform and station front appear almost unchanged.

Getting there: Hida-Furukawa Stn (JR Takayama Line) · At the station

Setogawa Canal and White-Wall Storehouses

The carp canal through old Furukawa that the film's town scenes are built from.

Getting there: Hida-Furukawa Stn · 5 min walk

• Keta Wakamiya Shrine
• Hida City Library
• Ajidokoro Furukawa
• Ochiai Bus Stop
• Hie Shrine, Hida Sanno-gu
• Hida Furukawa Sakura Bussankan

Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

Gifu Castle

The castle on the summit of Mt. Kinka, once held by Saito Dosan and Oda Nobunaga.

Getting there: Gifu Stn + bus 15min, then the ropeway · 10 min walk

• Gifu Station
• Kasamatsu Racecourse
• Nagara Park
• Kogane Shrine
• Kinka Bridge
• Gujō Hachiman Castle
• Golden Nobunaga Statue

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray

• Kasamatsu Station
• Kasamatsu Racecourse
• Colorful Town Gifu
• Fukushoji Temple
• Mt. Kinka Lookout
• Kasamatsu Minato Park

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends

Nagara Park

A large park in northern Gifu.

Getting there: Gifu Stn + bus 30min · 3 min walk

• Nishi-Gifu Station
• Hozumi Station
• Gifu Station
• Inuyama Bridge

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

Mt. Kinka Ropeway

The ropeway up to Gifu Castle.

Getting there: Gifu Stn + bus 15min · 3 min walk

• Meitetsu Gifu Station
• Nagarabashi-Kita Crossing
• Nagara Bridge
• Robot Floodgate

Adachi and Shimamura

Kurakake Shrine

A shrine in Gifu.

Getting there: Morera-Gifu Stn · 15 min walk

• Gifu Shikke Post Office
• Gifu Daiichi High School
• Asty Gifu
• Malera Gifu

Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan

Hiruganokogen SA

A service area on the Hirugano plateau on the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway.

Getting there: Mino-Shirotori Stn + 25min by car · 3 min walk

• Ikeda High School
• Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
• Gifu Air Field

Nobunaga-sensei's Young Bride

Dengakudokoro Murase

A dengaku restaurant in Gifu.

Getting there: Gifu Stn + bus 20min · 3 min walk

• Roopu-tei
• Enmado
• Gifu Castle

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl

• Gujo-Yamato Station
• Hozumi Station
• Gifu Station

A Bridge to the Starry Skies

Hida-Ichinomiya Station

A Takayama Line station, the nearest to Minashi Shrine.

Getting there: Hida-Ichinomiya Stn · At the station

• Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine
• Bagpipe

Sengoku Basara

• Sekigahara Battlefield
• Gifu Castle

Castle Defense

• Gifu Castle
• Iwamura Castle

Half Blue Sky

Iwamura Castle Ruins

The mountain castle above the old post town the drama is set in — one of the highest in Japan.

Getting there: Iwamura Stn · 30 min walk

• Iwamura Station

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

• Ogaki Station
• Ogaki Station South Exit

Yaiba: Samurai Legend

• Takayama Station
• Yunoshimakan

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk

• Gakko Bridge
• Ono Hachimangu Shrine

Kunitori Monogatari

Gifu Castle

Inabayama, renamed Gifu when Nobunaga took it — the drama's central conquest, on the peak above the Nagara.

Getting there: Bus + ropeway from Gifu Stn · 5 min walk

The Fuma Conspiracy

Mount Shakujo

A rock peak in the Hida mountains.

Getting there: Takayama Stn + bus 90min · 30 min walk

Komyo ga Tsuji

Gifu Castle (Inabayama)

The mountain castle the drama's couple rise through the ranks below.

Getting there: Gifu Stn + 15 min by bus + ropeway · 8 min walk

Saki

• Magome-juku Post Town

Go: Himetachi no Sengoku

Gifu Castle

Nobunaga's castle on Mt Kinka, the seat of the uncle whose rise carries Go's childhood.

Getting there: Bus + ropeway from Gifu Stn · 5 min walk

Guilty Crown

• Tajimi Monastery

Love Lab

• Gifu Station

Nobunaga Concerto

• Gifu Castle

Sekigahara

Gifu Castle

Oda Hidenobu's castle on Mt Kinka, taken by the Eastern army in the week before the battle; the ropeway climbs to the keep.

Getting there: Bus + ropeway from Gifu Stn · 5 min walk

My First Girlfriend Is a Gal

• Bagpipe

Umamusume: Pretty Derby

• Kasamatsu Racecourse

Laid-Back Camp

• Yahagi Dam

The Helpful Fox Senko-san

• Takayama Station

Kirin ga Kuru

• Gifu Castle

Shin Ultraman

Shin-Unuma Station

The Gifu station used for the location scenes of the SSSP's fieldwork.

Getting there: Shin-Unuma Stn (Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line) · At the station

MONO

• Maodake Peak