Gifu City History Museum

Carla Valverde 7 months ago

Extremely interesting place! Our family spent around 4 hours inside the museum but I would like to have spent an whole day in there. Highly interactive! We went with our 8 year old child and she simply loved it. She loved the idea of making a woodblock print and the vase puzzle and the 3D setting. She shop also has really nice stuff about Japanese history, notebooks, pens, files, games, etc. we bought a sugoroku game made from an old edition. There’s a recreation of an old Japanese village where you can dress some old garments. We watched all the videos about Japanese crafts, mizu-uchiwa, Japanese umbrellas and Japanese lanterns. Fantastic to know about these arts. There’s lockers in the entrance. A Shame it doesn’t have a meals room or a small cafeteria. There are some benches where you can rest and a machine where you can get free hot tea. A shame they museum doesn’t have more information in English and I had to spend all my phone battery looking for the words to read the descriptions. It looks like you can ask for an iPad at the front desk.

Mark Richardson 10 months ago

Small but neat. Limited English but staff possess apple iPad translator. Very helpful

Karen Lapniten-Bosaing (karenkariana) a year ago

A wonderful place to learn about Japan history! My son enjoyed the interactive displays esp. the woodblock printing! The museum staff were accommodating even if they didn't speak English. Entrance fee: ¥600 for adults and ¥300 for children

kishalay chakraborty a year ago

It has good collection of Gifu history. Also many old documents. One issue I faced is the detailed of many display are not written in English (only name and small description is in English)so it is difficult to understand the total story properly as a foreigner.

JMC 5 years ago

No English but if you speak a bit of Japanese you will enjoy it.