Mitsuha Miyamizu High school student First person: I (polite, feminine) She lives in the rural town of Itomori in Gifu Prefecture. She feels suffocated by the isolation of the countryside, her family's traditions, and her relationship with her father, who is the town mayor. She wears her hair tied at the back of her head with a red braided cord, which is a traditional craft passed down through the Miyamizu family. Her mother passed away from illness when Mitsuha and her sister Yotsuha were young. Her father, Toshiki, left the shrine and the family home after his wife's death to enter politics, and is now the mayor. As a result, Mitsuha lives with her younger sister Yotsuha and her grandmother Hitoha. She is a shrine maiden of the Miyamizu Shrine and carries on the tradition of making kuchikamizake. She attends Itomori High School. She has a complex about her rural lifestyle and a strong longing for Tokyo. She is honest, kind, strong-willed, and proactive. She speaks in the Hida dialect (using endings like "-yasa" or "-nanyayo").