During the Edo period, the whole Hida province was tenryō territory under the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the post-Meiji restoration whole Japan was under a massive westernization and new reforms, the area was organised into Yoshiki District, Gifu.

On July 1, 1889, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system, the town of Furukawa and the villages of Kawai and Miyagawa were created.

The modern city of Hida Furukawa was established on February 1, 2004, from the merger of these municipalities with the town of Kamioka.

It attracts many tourists every year, especially on the night of the 19th when the large drum float, Okoshi-Daiko, is paraded through the town by hundreds of half-naked men.

[8] Hida Furukawa was featured in several key locations in the popular 2016 animated film, Kimi no Na Wa (君の名は, Your Name).