The city is renowned for traditional Japanese Mino washi paper and its streets, which are in the style of the early Edo period (1603–1868).

[3] Per Japanese census data,[5] the population of Mino has decreased gradually over the past 40 years.

During the Edo period, Kanamori Nagachika, the founder of Takayama Domain was granted permission by Tokugawa Ieyasu to build Oguriyama Castle on the Nagara River.

Mino has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 13 members.

The city has one public high school operated by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education.