Spread along the Setogawa River in Furukawa-cho, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, the white-walled storehouse district is a beautiful historic landscape of Hida, where white-plastered kura storehouses and traditional townhouses line the waterway. Known as a town of koi, more than a thousand carp swim in the Setogawa River, and the combination of white walls and carp creates a uniquely atmospheric scene…

During the Edo period, the town developed as a commercial center under the Kanamori clan and later as shogunate-administered territory of Hida Province. It continued to prosper after the Meiji era through sericulture and silk-reeling industries, giving rise to the white-walled storehouse townscape s…