Minshuku Sosuke
Minshuku Sosuke is a delightful 13-room ‘minshuku’ (guesthouse) about 8 minutes' walk from Takayama station. The location offers quick and easy access to all main local places of interest. The building is 170 years old but the interior has been renovated. In the lounge there is an old fire place with a hearth called an irori. The atmosphere is authentically Japanese, and will bring you true peace
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Gifu City (岐阜市; Gifu-shi) is the capital city of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of central Japan. The name Gifu was given in the Warring States Period by Oda Nobunaga, a leading feudal lord of the 16th Century. He renamed what was previously called Inokuchi Village in Mino Province after a legendary mountain, Qishan (岐山), from which most of ancient China was unified. Though Nobunaga was originally from the neighboring province that is now Aichi Prefecture, he lived in Gifu Castle atop Mt. Kinka for nine years, using it as his base to unify Japan. Other large apartment complexes have just been built as well, though, and are intended to serve families, young singles, and other more traditional renters. The downtown area and the areas around these new apartment complexes are expected to become more lively as Toyota's main offices are relocated from Tokyo to Nagoya, and Toyota office workers thus relocate from Tokyo to, in many cases, Gifu. "Bierhall," a small bar roughly halfway between the main train station and the city cultural center, is a lively little watering hole whose clientele is a roughly equal mix of Japanese residents of Gifu and expatriates from other countries.
