Workers preparing traditional Japanese sweets at Minoya confectionery in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture.
NESTLED in the mountains of Japan’s Gifu prefecture, Higashi Mino remains a well-kept secret – for now.
But with Japan’s new Chuo Shinkansen, a high-speed maglev train set to link Tokyo and Osaka via Nagoya by 2027, change is on the horizon.
