One day in Gifu, Japan

A day through Gifu’s best-known sights that lie close together: Inaba Shrine, Gifu Great Buddha, Nawa Insect Museum, Gifu Park, Gifu Castle and Sōfuku-ji Temple. 6 stops, about 3.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Inaba ShrineTemple or shrine · On the map
  2. Gifu Great BuddhaMonument · 0.6 km on from Inaba Shrine · On the map
  3. Nawa Insect MuseumMuseum · 0.1 km on from Gifu Great Buddha · On the map
  4. Gifu ParkGarden · 0.2 km on from Nawa Insect Museum · On the map
  5. Gifu CastleCastle · 0.6 km on from Gifu Park · On the map
  6. Sōfuku-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 1.7 km on from Gifu Castle · On the map

6 stops, 5.4 km on foot along the streets: about 1 h 22 min of walking.

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Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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