2023 Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama - Maps showing the inscribed component parts of the property 2012 Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama - Maps showing the inscribed ...

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's snowiest ... Come and visit a mountain village that appears to be frozen in time.

The winter "Shirakawa-go light-up" event started on January 13 at a settlement listed as a UNESCO World Heritage in the village of Shirakawa, Gifu Pre･･･ ...

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu -- An illumination event at a UNESCO World Heritage-listed settlement in this central Japan village began on Jan. 13, lighting up historic thatched houses. Tourists in the ...

Located in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World Heritage Site. The roofs are steeply slanted ...

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture—A World Heritage village here kicked off its stunning ... visitors from all over the world to the enchanting winter wonderland. To prevent overtourism, the event ...

You can still see them in places, however – and nowhere more spectacularly than Gokayama and Shirakawa- go, said Tom Allan ..

According to the Shirakawa village board of education, this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved climbing the steep roof of the living quarters at ...