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Gifu Castle and Mount Kinka: anime and film locations you can walk between

Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary, Nobunaga-sensei's Young Bride, Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and 25 places in all, from 12 titles, inside 2.5 km.

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Titles · 12

Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

TV anime · 2024

Nobunaga-sensei's Young Bride

TV anime · 2019

Dengakudokoro Murase

A dengaku restaurant in Gifu.

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

Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

TV anime · 2024

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

Kunitori Monogatari

TV drama · 1973

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

Komyo ga Tsuji

TV drama · 2006

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

Sengoku Basara

TV anime · 2009

Go: Himetachi no Sengoku

TV drama · 2011

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

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

TV anime · 2014

Mt. Kinka Ropeway

The ropeway up to Gifu Castle.

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

Nobunaga Concerto

TV anime · 2014

Sekigahara

Film · 2017

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

Castle Defense

TV anime · 2017

Kirin ga Kuru

TV drama · 2020

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