Mino City

A 9 m lighthouse stands at a river port.

Kozuchi Port, Nagara lighthouse

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Suspension bridge

Apart from the wooden deck,the original parts are still in use.

This suspension bridge over the Nagara River is 113 m long and 3.1 m wide, was completed in 1916, and is an Important Cultural Property. The name on the towers differs by bank: Minohashi in hiragana on the right-bank tower, Mino Bridge in kanji on the left. Apart from deck boards replaced in 1983 and 1999, the original parts remain, and since the Showa 40s (1965-74) it has been for pedestrians.

113 m long, 3.1 m wide
Important Cultural Property
Two names on the towers

02 ／ Hexagonal hall

Round halls are usually octagonal.Beside a pass stands a hexagonal one.

This Jizo hall stands at a pass on the old Gujo road. The Agency for Cultural Affairs calls it a hexagonal round hall, noting that round halls are usually octagonal and hexagonal ones are very few across the country. It was built to pray for the safety of travelers on the road. The roof is cypress bark and the pillars are round. Important Cultural Property.

Hexagonal round hall
Cypress-bark roof
Important Cultural Property

03 ／ Puppet play

Paper faces on bamboo basketsdance above a curtain on the hillside.

At the festival of Oyada Shrine, puppets are brought out above a curtain stretched across the hillside for a puppet play. Each puppet has a head made of a bamboo basket covered in painted paper, and is worked with bamboo. Copies of festival records dating from 1615 survive, and the play is thought to go back at least to the early modern period. Nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property; prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Copied festival records from 1615

Living here

From Nagoya by highway bus in as little as 71 minutes.

about 20,000 people
90 min to a city centre

On Gifu Bus's Nagoya-Seki-Mino highway line, it takes as little as 71 minutes from Meitetsu Bus Center to the Chuno Chosha stop (timetable revised April 2026; these are the express-system services from the evening, and other buses take 90-odd minutes). From the stop to the old townscape, the tourist association recommends a taxi. At the gateway, Minoshi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway, the platform canopies are supported by old rails.

People living here: 19,247people
Area: 117.01km²
Households: 7,452households
Rent (average for rentals): 39,535yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 15 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Mino City in Japan35.545°N 136.908°E

to NagoyaHighway bus71min

Travel times follow 岐阜バス『高速名古屋関美濃線』時刻表（2026年4月1日改正。https://www.gifubus.co.jp/2604_tt-nagoya.pdf）の『関・美濃方面ゆき』名鉄バスセンター発→中濃庁舎着。岐阜バス『岐阜女子大線・高美線』時刻表（2025年4月1日改正。https://www.gifubus.co.jp/2504_gifujyoshi-takami.pdf）の『西鏡島→…→JR岐阜→…→中濃庁舎』の高美線（N72）JR岐阜⑫のりば発→中濃庁舎着 (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Mino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.7km

関市, 郡上市

Mino City isthis kind of town.

01Kozuchi Port was opened by Kanamori Nagachika as a river port on the Nagara River with 40 duty boats. It fell into disuse when the electric railway opened in 1911, and a 9 m lighthouse and stone steps to the landing keep its old look
02Mino Bridge is a suspension bridge 113 m long, completed in 1916 and an Important Cultural Property; its tower reads Minohashi on the right bank and Mino Bridge on the left
03Rokuon-ji's Jizo hall is a hexagonal round hall beside a pass, and Oyada's Hinkoko is a puppet play above a curtain on the hillside; the old townscape is a Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, with udatsu fire walls and fire-guard deities on the eaves

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

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