Hilma

Where Hilma would send you

1. 1 Magoemon Restaurant Sep 21
   Magoemon

   ★★★★ Hilma's pick

   Gassho-zukuri farmhouse turned restaurant where the hoba miso with Hida beef arrives still bubbling on a magnolia leaf — the valley's signature dish, in a room warmed by an irori hearth and the smell of charcoal.

   360 Ogimachi, Shirakawa-mura, Ono-gun, Gifu 501-5627, Japan
2. 2 Buna no Komichi (Beech Route) Attraction Sep 21
   Buna no Komichi (Beech Route)

   ★★★★★ Hilma's pick

   A thirty-minute trail through a three-hundred-year-old Japanese beech forest starting near the village observatory. Moss-covered floor, shafts of green-gold light, and the kind of quiet that makes you stop walking and just stand. The village looks different from down here when you come back out.

   Near Shiroyama Viewpoint, Ogimachi, Shirakawa-go, Gifu, Japan
3. 3 Kanda House Attraction Sep 21
   Kanda House

   ★★★★ Hilma's pick

   Four-story open gassho house you can walk through — climb to the top floor and look out across the village roofs through the gaps in the timber. The garden from the tatami room on a rainy afternoon is the best view in the house.

   796 Ogimachi, Shirakawa-mura, Ono-gun, Gifu 501-5627, Japan