Gujo-Hachiman

Travel Aug 16, 2019

Gujo-Hachiman: Travel along the rivers of time

by Stephen Mansfield

Perhaps it is the gurgling brooks that feed the town's roadside culverts, the colorful, vaguely Pyrenean window boxes, or the friendly, natural disposition of the locals — Gujo-Hachiman seems a place where people's spirits are pitched a notch or two higher than elsewhere.

Travel Jun 4, 2016

A waterlogged retreat, deep in the mountains of Gifu

by Mandy Bartok

For a town so closely associated with water, it's rather fitting that Gujo-Hachiman is shaped like a fish. "An ayu (sweetfish), to be exact," clarifies Yuka Tanaka, my guide for the afternoon and a native of this small town of approximately 18,000 inhabitants tucked away ...