Gujo city’s iconic, all-night dance festival returned to the streets on Aug. 13 for the first time in four years, drawing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travelers who stray off the beaten path in Japan can find quiet moments in nature, fresh cuisine and immersive cultural ...

The town of Gujo Hachiman is the centre of the replica food industry now worth an estimated $90m With a gentle swish through hot water, and some deft tearing and shaping, Kurumi Kono turns a ...

While paying for lunch at Hirajin, I ask off-handedly if the restaurant has a long history. The wooden building, whose backside overlooks the Yoshida River, doesn’t look particularly old, but a small ...

The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the scores of revelers, as well as the live festival music and clacking geta wooden clogs. For more than 400 years, it has been ...

GUJO-HACHIMAN, GIFU PREF. – Alan Booth, a writer rarely given to dispensing easy compliments, could be a dyspeptic traveler when destinations did not live up to his expectations. After a long walk ...

Japan's longest dance festival, the month-long Gujo Odori in Gujo City, Gifu, is back to full strength for the first time since the start of the pandemic. For this year's event, organizers have ...

Gujo Hachiman Castle is a mountain castle located in Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture. This castle is known as one of Japan’s most beautiful wooden castles. In recent years, it has also been called Gifu ...

On July 13, the Gujo Odori dance festival started in the city of Gujo, Gifu Prefecture. The festival is a national important intangible folk cultural property, and considered to be one of Japan's ...

On August 10, 2025, in Gujo, Japan, @Macarii2 shared a video showing a severe traffic jam on the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway. In the video, heavy rain leads to road restrictions, forcing vehicles off ...