Help us Map the Gluten-free meals & sights in Hida.

If you find a gluten free friendly café, restaurant or shop on your journey add it to the community map and let us know. We will follow up and invite them to join the project.

A gluten-Free Week in Hida

We are mapping the existing gluten-free meals in Hida Furukawa and the wider region.

In Hida Furukawa you can wander quiet streets lined with wooden merchant houses, watch carp drift through the Setogawa canal and explore the workshops and museums connected to the Hida master carpenter tradition. Or hike into the forested hills and mountains dotted with waterfalls and yakusō herbs.

Warm up with Hoba Miso grilled in the snow or BBQ Hida beef over local lava stone at a riverside campsite.

Day Trips from Hida Furukawa

• Takayama’s old town and morning markets

• UNESCO listed village of Shirakawa-go

• Ena Clan Residence - a samurai manor house near Kamioka

• Hot spring towns of Oku-hida Onsen-go

• Skiing at Nagareha, Hida Kawaii or Hirayu

• Shinhotaka Ropeway into the high peaks

• Follow Old Hida Takumi routes that link to the Nakasendo Trail and the historic capitals of Nara and Kyoto.

Overnight trips & Onward Journeys

• Hike the valleys of Kamikochi

• Climb Mount Norikura

• Cross to Matsumoto to visit its Sengoku-era castle then continue through the mountains toward Nagano.

• Holy Mount Haku and Kanazawa

• Gero Onsen

• Gujo Hachiman

Add your Finds

Wherever you go, if you find a place that welcomes GF travellers add it to the map and help us build the first truly gluten free friendly region in Japan.