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Event Calendar

January Mid-January Dairyu-ji Memorial Service for Daruma Dolls Dairyu-ji Temple Daruma Kannon
Gifu City
  15th Santera Mairi (pilgrimage of three temples) Hida City
February 3rd Setsubun (spring eve) Festival Inaba Shrine
Gifu City
  Early-February Fukuyose(fortune-bringing)-Hina
(exhibition of antique hina dolls)
Gujo Hachiman Jokamachi
  Mid-February Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri (naked festival)
※Jan. 13th in the old calendar
Konomiya Shrine
Inazawa City, Aich Prefecture
  18th Tanigumi Odori (dance festival) Tanigumi, Ibigawa Town
March Early-March Anpachi Hyakubaien Enyukai (garden party for Japanese plum blossoms) Anpachi Town, Anpachi County
  Early-March Gifu Bairin Ume (Japanese plum blossom) Festival Bairin Park
Gifu City
April First Saturday and Sunday Dosan Festival Gifu City
  14th and 15th Takayama Spring Festival Hie Shrine
Takayama City
  Second Saturday and Sunday Mino Festival (flower portable shrine and traditional impromptu comedy called “niwaka”) Udatsu-lined Street
Mino City
  Second Saturday and Sunday Tajimi Ceramics Festival Hon-machi, Tajimi City
  Late-April Gifu Castle Panoramic Nightview
※Late-April to early-May
Mt. Kinka, Gifu City
  Early-to-mid April Usuzumi-zakura (pale grey cherry blossom) Neo, Motosu City
May 3rd, 4th, and 5th Toki Mino-yaki (ceramic ware) Festival Toki city
  11th Opening of Ukai (cormorant fishing)
※May 11th to October 15th
Nagara River
Gifu City
  Mid-May Takahashi Naoko Cup / Gifu Seiryu (clean river) Half-Marathon Race Along Nagara River
Gifu City
  Mid-May Tour of Japan Mino Stage Udatsu-lined StreetMino City
July Mid-July Gifu Castle Panoramic Nightview
※Mid-July to late-August
Gifu Castle
Gifu city
  16th Nagara River festival (memorial service to ayu sweetfish) Shinmei Shrine
Near the Nagara River
Gifu City
  Last Saturday of July The Chunichi Newspaper Nagara River All-Japan Fireworks Festival Along the Nagara River
Gifu City
August First Saturday of August The Nagara River National Display Along the Nagara River
Gifu City
  Second Sunday Tejikara Fire Festival Near the Nagara River
Gifu City
  13th-16th Gujo All-night Dance Hachiman-cho
Gujo City
  18th and 19th Dairyu-ji Lantern Festival Dairyu-ji Temple
Gifu City
  Last Friday Traditional Culture Night
Nagara River Takigi (torched) Noh
Along the Nagara River
Gifu City
September Early September Gifu Castle Panoramic Nightview
※Early-September to mid-November
Gifu Castle
Gifu city
  Mid-to-late September Nagaragawa Onpaku Along the Nagara River
Gifu City
October First Saturday and Sunday Gifu Nobunaga Festivel Gifu City
  9th and 10th Takayama Autumn Festival Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine
  Early-October Seki City Cutlery Festival Seki City
  Early-October Mino Washi “Akari” Art Exhibition Udatsu-lined Street
Mino City
  15th Closure of Ukai (cormorant fishing) Along the Nagara River
Gifu City
  Mid-October Memorial Service for Cormorants U-zuka
Gifu City
  Mid-October Mino Washi “Akari” Art Street Display Udatsu-lined Street
Mino City
  Mid-October Doburoku (milky white, unrefined sake) Festival Shirakawa-go
  Late-October Gifu Park Chrysanthemum Doll Show Gifu Park
Gifu City
November Mid-to-late November Koyo (autumn foliage) along the Hakusan Super Rindo (forest road), Hida Seseragi-kaido Highway, and in Tanigumi, Oyada, and Yoro) Across Gifu Prefecture
  23rd Oyada Shrine Hinkoko Festival (puppet performance) Oyada District
Mino City
December Mid-December Gifu Illumination Fair North Side Square of JR Gifu Station, etc.
Gifu City
  Second Saturday Ikenoue Misogi (ablution) Ceremony Festival Katsuragake Shrine
Gifu City
  Mid-to-late December Koyomi no Yobune ※Held on the winter solstice Promenade along the Nagara River
Gifu City