Kitagata Town

Three-step brackets bear the deep eaves.

Enkyo-ji Temple's two-story gate

Photo by 先従隗始 (CC0)

01 ／ Mino-school haikai

The masters' tombs began as Gochikubo's vow,built with gifts from like-minded people nationwide.

Inside Saiun-ji Temple stand the egg-shaped tombs of the successive masters of the Shishimon line of the Mino school of haikai. At the vow of the fourth master, Gochikubo, gifts were sought from like-minded people across the country, and in the seventh master's time a memorial service was held on 12 October 1807 (Bunka 4), Basho's memorial day. The third and fourth masters were people of Kitagata.

A dozen or more tombs (prefecture)
Service held 12 Oct 1807
Dojo site: prefectural historic site

02 ／ Time drum

A bannerman showed his horsemanship before the shogunand was granted a "time drum" by Tsunayoshi.

In 1697 (Genroku 10), the bannerman Toda showed his horsemanship before the shogun and was granted a time drum by Tsunayoshi; until the Meiji Restoration its sound told Kitagata village the hour. The calendar scholar Yasui (later Shibukawa) wrote the text on the plaque, and the drum is still beaten at Saijun-ji Temple on 10 June.

Granted in Genroku 10 (1697)
Drum diameter 110 cm
Drum and plaque: town-designated (1955)

03 ／ Yubegaike Pond

Once a bog up to the thighs,it became a pond overnight, they say.

One of the Gifu Prefecture 50 Famous Waters (selected in 1986), it lies on the border with Gifu City and is fed by water welling up from the pond bottom. According to the prefecture, it was once a bog up to the thighs; the morning after a farmhand's muttered wish it had become a pond, and as the pond made in the evening it came to be called Yubegaike.

Gifu Prefecture 50 Famous Waters
Selected in 1986
On the Kitagata–Gifu City border

Living here

No station; 27 minutes by bus from JR Gifu.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town, and the Meitetsu Ibi Line closed in 2005. A Gifu Bus local bus from JR Gifu Station reaches Kitagata Bus Terminal in as little as 27 minutes (timetable revised 1 October 2026). The town is long and narrow, 4.2 km north to south and 1.85 km east to west.

People living here: 18,139people
Area: 5.18km²
Households: 7,418households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,906yen
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 22 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Kitagata Town in Japan35.436°N 136.684°E

to GifuLocal bus27min

Travel times follow 岐阜バス（岐阜乗合自動車）公式の路線別時刻表PDF『真正大縄場線』（https://www.gifubus.co.jp/2610_shinsei-oonawaba.pdf ）と『大野穂積線』（https://www.gifubus.co.jp/2610_oono-h.pdf ）。ともに『2026年10月1日改正』。文字層を pdftotext で読み、JR岐阜（⑦のりば）・穂積駅前の発時刻と北方バスターミナルの着時刻の差を全便で数えた。町公式『路線バス・鉄道』〔更新 2026-10-05〕の『北方バスターミナル時刻表』（https://www.town.kitagata.gifu.jp/material/files/group/3/gifubusdaiya20261001.pdf 。北方バスターミナル発の平日・土日祝の一覧）とも突き合わせた (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Kitagata Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.2km

本巣市, 岐阜市, 瑞穂市

Kitagata Town isthis kind of town.

01Enkyo-ji's two-story gate, according to its ridge-beam inscription, was built in the fourth year of Einin (1296); it is a three-bay, one-door hip-and-gable gate with a cypress-bark roof and a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. Three-step brackets in the Japanese style bear its deep eaves
02Saiun-ji's Mino-school haikai Minakami dojo site is a prefectural historic site, with the egg-shaped tombs of the school's masters standing in a row. The town's commentary gives the birthplace of the school's founder, Kagami Shiko, as present-day Kitano in Gifu City
03Saijun-ji holds the time drum that Shogun Tsunayoshi permitted and a plaque whose text was written by the calendar scholar Yasui (later Shibukawa), both town-designated. Yubegaike Pond is one of the Gifu Prefecture 50 Famous Waters

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kitagata Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗