Hida Province
Hida (飛騨国, Hida no kuni) is an old province located in Tōsandō of Japan, which today composes the northern part of Gifu Prefecture.
The castle town of Hida was Takayama. Hida had extensive forests and was a major source of timber and metals for other provinces. River traffic from Hida down to Mino and Owari provinces was heavy.
In 1585, Kanamori Nagachika, one of Oda Nobunaga's and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals, was sent to occupy Hida and became its lord. He fought on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara and his heirs held the province through the Edo period.
Current municipalities located within Hida (by creation)
Districts once located within Hida
- Ono District
- Mashita District (now dissolved)
- Yoshiki District (now dissolved)
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