GIFU--Once occupied by Japan’s most powerful warlord, Gifu Castle now plays host to visitors eager to explore the iconic fortress, meet samurai warriors and shoot arrows--virtually, that is.

A bone-rattling bus ride from Nagoya can put a harried city dweller aboard a boat on the Gifu River ... its brooding feudal castle and gold-scaled carp, one can view gleaming reaches of the ...

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. In the ...