Mino is a city of the Gifu Mino district mostly located in the center. There measures area 117.05 square kilometers and there is a population of about 22,400. The city area known as "rows of houses which a short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole goes up" was selected as an important building group preservation area of a country on May 13, 1999. It becomes a tourist draw leading within the prefecture in recent years, and is established as a town which many tourists visit. Mino at the foot of the mountain following the Hida high ground is blessed with a good material for making Japanese paper, and the clean water and water transport which Nagara-gawa brings about. The "Mino Washi" is known as Japanese paper represented Japan's still now. Moreover, the heart of the "reception" is carefully saved as a liquor maker, a scientific library, and a cafe.

The municipal emblem of Mino is what carried out the design about "Mino (3)." "no" it is because the town of the center in Mino is making the tortoise shell form more highly than others that the character of "is a tortoise" shell form. Moreover, the plum was enacted as maple and a city flower as a city tree on April 1, Showa 48.