Introducing the top 10 unmissable local gourmet dishes from the Gifu region.

Introducing the top 10 unmissable local gourmet dishes from the Gifu region.
When visiting the Gifu region, be sure to enjoy the authentic local gourmet dishes at their best.
Table of Contents

Gohei Mochi
Famous as a local dish handed down in Gifu and Kiso
Goheimochi is a local dish that has been popular since ancient times in the mountainous areas of Gifu and Nagano prefectures. Lightly eat glutinous rice and eat with miso and soy sauce on the dumpl...

Salt-grilled sweetfish
Salt-grilled classic ayu, sweet and boiled sweet
In Gifu Prefecture, where many mountains are towering, there are clear streams throughout the country, and it is one of the best sweetfish in Japan. The eating season is different depending on the ...

Hida Takayama Ramen
Local ramen in Takayama city with a unique way of making soup.
Takayama ramen is a type of ramen that is mainly eaten in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The soup is light soy sauce based on chicken, and the noodles are super fine chijirens. Normal ramen often ...

Hoba-zushi
The protagonist is a park leaf! It is a local dish of Gifu prefecture that you eat with fragrance.
It is a local dish of Gifu Prefecture with vinegar rice wrapped in park leaves. It is said that it has a bactericidal effect and can be eaten without dirty hands, so it began to be made as a portab...

Hida beef
The finest and soft brand Wagyu beef in Japan! Hida beef
The pure water of the Northern Alps and rice straw grown in that water, clear air, day and night temperature difference, farmers' affection, etc., Hida beef carefully crafted in the great nature, i...

Tomato bowl
Sweet, spicy and juicy ✕ Refreshing acidity, exquisite harmony at Gero Onsen in Gifu Prefecture
“Tomato bowl,” born at Gero Onsen, a famous hot spring in Gifu Prefecture, is a new type of local cuisine filled with local ingredients and ingenuity. Its characteristic is that fruit tomatoes, a s...

Tsukemono steak
The wisdom of mothers in Hida Takayama, Gifu prefecture “steak that is good for beauty and health”
Tsukemono steak is a local dish from the Hida region of Gifu prefecture. The normal way to eat tsukemono is often to eat it as it is, but in Hida Takayama, Gifu prefecture, the tsukemono is grilled...

Magnolia leaf miso
Hida's local cuisine eaten by putting miso on top of dried magnolia leaves and grilling
In the Hida region, magnolia leaves that have fallen in the fall have been collected and used as cooking utensils. Magnolia trees are large deciduous broad-leaved trees that can be seen in mount...

Kakamigahara Kimchi
Sister city exchange with Chuncheon, Korea
Kakamigahara Kimchi is a specialty dish of Hamigahara, which is characterized by the fact that it contains a special product of Kakamigahara city “carrot” and “pine tree”, a specialty of Chuncheon,...

Hida soba
Fine, delicious and hidden specialties
Hida Takayama in Gifu Prefecture is a region where you can make soba because the snow melting water from the mountains, delicious air, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is ...