Hida City

Winter: 1,000 carp go to a castle moat.

Seto River carp, Tenjin Pond

Photo by Waackapple (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Gokaishi stones

Five large stones in a rice field were said to bea lord's garden stones; a dig unearthed a garden.

Locals call the five large stones that remain in a rice field in Kamioka the Gokaishi, and have long said they are "the garden stones of the lord of Ema." An excavation ahead of land-improvement work found the site of a medieval warrior's residence with a garden. The garden and its kaisho (reception hall) were restored, and the garden became a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 2017.

Five large stones
National Place of Scenic Beauty, 2017
Garden and reception hall restored

02 ／ Sekibo stone rods

Traces of stone-rod making lie near the source of the stone,from large rods to small ones.

考古展示室・石棒.jpg — Photo by 飛騨市の文化財(hidanobunka) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Shima and Shioya Kinsei Shrine sites in Miyagawa, both Jomon-period sites, preserve traces of making sekibo, or stone rods. The material, a welded tuff known as Shioya stone, can be quarried in the nearby mountains. The Middle Jomon Shima site yielded large stone rods, and the Late and Final Jomon Shioya Kinsei Shrine site yielded small ones. In March 2026 the Council for Cultural Affairs recommended designating them an Important Cultural Property.

Large rods in the Middle Jomon
Small rods in the Late and Final Jomon
Recommended March 2026

03 ／ Former Matsuba house

Living on the ground floor, silkworms on the upper two;a northern Hida house, moved as it stood.

Built around the first year of Meiji in Kamioka, this house was moved to the Takahara Kyodokan museum and is a Gifu Prefecture Tangible Folk Cultural Property. It has an irimoya (hip-and-gable) roof, measures 14 m by 10 m, and is known for a roof frame of curved chona-hari beams. The ground floor was for living, and the second and third floors were for silkworm raising.

Built around the first year of Meiji
14 m by 10 m
Silkworms on floors 2 and 3

Living here

About 93% forest, and Gifu's northernmost city.

about 20,000 people

Hida was formed in 2004 by the merger of two towns and two villages: Furukawa, Kawai, Miyagawa and Kamioka. It is the northernmost city in Gifu Prefecture, bordering Toyama Prefecture to the north, Takayama to the south and Shirakawa Village to the west, and about 93% of its 792.53 km² is forest. In Kamioka, the technology of the closed Kamioka Mine was used in building Super-Kamiokande. The gateway is Hida-Furukawa Station on the JR Takayama Line, where the Ltd. exp. Hida stops.

People living here: 22,538people
Area: 792.53km²
Households: 8,196households
Rent (average for rentals): 32,648yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 23 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Hida City in Japan36.238°N 137.186°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Hida154min
to ToyamaLtd. exp. Hida73min

Travel times follow JR時刻表2026年10月号の内容を載せるJRおでかけネット（JR西日本）の列車時刻表（2026-10-15 に引いた）と、JR東海の2026年3月改正の駅時刻表PDF（飛騨古川駅・名古屋駅）。特急ひだ3号（1023D）・8号（1028D）・20号（1040D）は列車ページの『運転日』が『毎日運転』 (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Hida City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

31.3km

Gifu Prefecture: 高山市, 白川村
Toyama Prefecture: 富山市, 南砺市

Hida City isthis kind of town.

01The Seto River, where 1,000 carp swim in summer, serves in winter as a channel for shoveled snow, so the carp move to Tenjin Pond, the moat of the Masushima castle site, to wait for spring
02In Kamioka, the Ema residence garden was found after a local tradition about five stones in a rice field, and in Miyagawa the Shima and Shioya Kinsei Shrine sites preserve traces of Jomon stone-rod making
03In Kamioka, the Takahara Kyodokan museum has the Former Matsuba house, a farmhouse from around the first year of Meiji, and in Furukawa the Furukawa Festival's Okoshi-daiko drum and float rites are inscribed on the UNESCO list as part of the Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hida City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗