Wedged between the Kiso and Nagara rivers, the land here has always been negotiated with water. The earthen embankments of the rinchu flood-protection districts still shape how fields and settlements sit, and the rice grown in this alluvial soil — Hatsushimo, a local variety — carries something of that particular geography into each grain. Around the old castle-town streets of Takehana, Hashima's older identity persists quietly: the Meiji-era storehouse at the Hashima Tourism Exchange Center has been converted for craft workshops, and bicycles can be borrowed to follow the low, flat lanes that connect temple precincts to merchant townhouses.
Takehana Betsuin, a Jodo Shinshu temple with ties to Shinran and Rennyo, anchors the district's spiritual life. Its wisteria, planted centuries ago, draws the Fujimatsuri each spring. Nearby, the Takehana Festival's thirteen festival floats are kept in rotation at the Yamagurumakaikan, where the lacquered woodwork of each dashi sits close enough to examine. The Nakakannondo temple houses a collection of Enku-carved Buddhist figures, rough-hewn and immediate in a way that polished temple statuary rarely is. The Hashima Rekishi Minzoku Shiryokan holds tens of thousands of objects — folk tools alongside an archive of Showa-era film materials — a combination that says something about how this town stores its own past: practically, without hierarchy, in the same building.
Where to stay
A day is rarely enough.
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What converges here
2 in this city. 70 within 25 km of the city hall.
- Takehana Matsuri Dashi Hall
- Fuji Takehana Machiya Gallery
- Ichinomiya Bisai Museum of History and Folklore
- ハートピア安八
- Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi
See the nearest 25
- Hara Sankei Memorial Room
- Sunomata Local History Museum
- Kasamatsu Museum History and Future
- Ōgaki Castle
- Toyoshima Memorial Museum
- OKBギャラリー
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
- Ogakishi Wajukan
- Ichinomiya City Museum
- Gifu City Science Museum
- Ginan-chō Folk Historical Museum
- 日本国際ポスター美術館
- Inazawa City Oguiss Memorial Art Museum
- 各務原市木曽川文化史料館
- 日比野五鳳記念美術館
- Gifu Prefectural Archives
- Nawa Insect Museum
- Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum
- Ama City Miwa Historical Museum
- 各務原市埋蔵文化財調査センター
- Museum of History and Folklore
- Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum
- Sankō Museum
- Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
- Shippō Art Village
Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Gifu-Hashima
- Shin-Hashima
- Takehana
- Hashimashiyakushomae
- Egira
- Fuwa-Isshiki
- Suka
- Minami-juku
- Ekigira