Gifu Park

Gifu Park is a public park placed at the base of Mount Kinka in the town of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Inside the park, there are many sights, including Gifu Castle, Mount Kinka, the Mt. Kinka Ropeway, the Gifu City Museum of History, the Eizo & Toichi Kato Memorial Art Museum, and the Nawa Insect Museum. In 2006, it became selected as certainly one of Japan's Top one hundred Public Historical Parks. The place that makes up Gifu Park has a long and vital position in the history of Gifu City. Though Mount Kinka was strategically critical for army purposes, living within the citadel atop the mountain would have made every day existence very hard.

As such, many essential rulers constructed their predominant residences at the base of the mountain in modern-day Gifu Park. One of these houses used to belong to Oda Nobunaga. It was referred to as Senjo-jiki which literally way "one-thousand tatami mats. The residence changed into so large that it blanketed about -thirds of the modern park. Gifu Park plays host to severa events all through the year. Two popular events are the Gifu Park Illumination, which runs from the give up of July to the cease of August, and the Chrysanthemum Doll and Flower Festival,