Gujo City

Ionic columns by a wooden clinic's door.

Old Hayashi Ryoin Main Building

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Garden

The pond garden found in farmland worklay at the manor of the To clan, linked to Kokin Denju.

In 1979, farmland consolidation work uncovered the remains of a garden centered on a pond with an island; in 1987 it was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty. The To clan, who built the manor, excelled in waka poetry, and the transmission by the ninth head, To Tsuneyori, to the linked-verse poet Sogi is known as Kokin Denju. In 2024 the manor site and the Shinowaki Castle site became a National Historic Site.

Found during farmland work, 1979
National Place of Scenic Beauty, 1987
National Historic Site, 2024

02 ／ Mizubune

Mizubune take in mountain water,and users cut the path's grass to keep it.

In Ozaki-cho in Gujo-Hachiman, mizubune, stepped tanks fed by mountain water through pipes, cluster together, with many shared covered ones. Of the two or three tanks, the upper is by rule for drinking water, the middle for rinsing and the lower for washing. Users also handle upkeep, such as cutting grass on the mountain path to the source and cleaning around the intake.

Two or three tanks
Concentrated in Ozaki-cho
Grass cutting and intake cleaning

03 ／ Turntable

At the northern terminal station,a turntable whose girder is by American Bridge Company.

The hand-operated turntable inside Hokuno Station is made of iron, 15 m across, with a concrete pit 0.96 m deep. Its girder is 50 feet long and is supported by a central bearing and wheels at both ends. Dating from 1902 and moved in 1934, it became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Hand-operated
15 m in diameter
1902, moved 1934

Living here

About 52 km north to south, with 2 m of snow in the north.

about 40,000 people

A city formed in 2004 by merging seven towns and villages: Hachiman, Yamato, Shirotori, Takasu, Minami, Meiho and Wara. It covers 1,030.75 km², about 10% of the prefecture. The Nagara River rises on Mt. Dainichigatake. The gateway is Gujo-Hachiman Station, whose main building and wooden footbridge are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties.

People living here: 38,997people
Area: 1,030.75km²
Households: 14,562households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,339yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 25 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —14 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Gujo City in Japan35.749°N 136.964°E

Territory of Gujo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

52.1km

Gifu Prefecture: 高山市, 関市, 下呂市, 美濃市
Fukui Prefecture: 大野市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Gujo City isthis kind of town.

01The Old Hayashi Ryoin Main Building, a clinic built in 1904, has Ionic columns at its entrance porch. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it is now the gallery Gujo-Hachiman Rakugeikan
02The To clan manor garden in Maki, Yamato, is a National Place of Scenic Beauty, and the manor site and Shinowaki Castle site became a National Historic Site in 2024. The To clan is linked to Kokin Denju, passed from To Tsuneyori to Sogi
03Mizubune in Ozaki-cho draw mountain water into two or three tanks, and Hokuno Station has a hand-operated turntable dating from 1902. Gujo-Hachiman Kita-machi was selected as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 2012

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Gujo City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗