01 ／ Wisteria
The Takehana Betsuin Wisteria is a giant that the city describes as more than 300 years old. From a single tree, branches spread 33 m east to west and 15 m north to south, and the girth at the base is 2.3 m. It was designated a Natural Monument of Gifu Prefecture in April 1970.
02 ／ Itasenpara
The itasenpara is a freshwater fish native to Japan; in autumn the male's body turns purplish red. A National Natural Monument (designated 1974), it was confirmed in the Kiso River in a 2008 survey for the first time in 15 years. Hashima joined a conservation council and has kept and displayed the fish at its library and schools. The photo shows a surveyed individual from Aichi Prefecture.
03 ／ Movie museum
The Hashima Movie Museum, housed with the Hashima Folk History Museum, opened in February 1996 on the site of a former movie theater in Takehana. It displays eight large film projectors, among other items, and on the second Saturday of every month it screens old films, twice a day, to the sound of a projector.
Living here
Kodama and Hikari trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen stop at Gifu-Hashima Station. It takes at most 10 minutes from Nagoya Station, 34 from Kyoto, 49 from Shin-Osaka and 117 from Tokyo (timetable of 15 October 2026; daily trains, counted up to the departure time at Gifu-Hashima).
−2.5% since 2015
63,962 → 65,649
53.66km² of it habitable
2024
2.6 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.0 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表（ページの日付は 2026年10月15日・木）：東海道･山陽･九州新幹線 下り（line-timetable/1796）・同 上り（line-timetable/2229）。発駅（東京・名古屋・新大阪・京都）の『発』と岐阜羽島の列の時刻が同じ列車の列を数え、運転日注意欄に印の無い（毎日運転の）列車の最速を採った。岐阜羽島の行は『発』だけで『着』が無いので、**到着は岐阜羽島の発時刻で数えた**（途中駅で停車が短く、表に着時刻が出ない。実際の到着は1分前後早い可能性がある）。観光協会の案内『新幹線で：名古屋まで10分、東京まで2時間7分、大阪まで52分』は参考 (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
12.8km
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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