Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 De historische dorpen Shirakawa-go en Gokayama liggen in een bergachtig gebied dat lange tijd was afgesneden van de rest van de wereld. De ...

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, Gifu Prefecture--Villagers in this renowned UNESCO World Heritage site came ... this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved climbing the ...

Shirakawa-go stretches along the Sho River at the foot of the Japanese Alps, amid dense forests and green, lush rice paddies. This group of historic villages, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's snowiest regions. It's famous for its traditional thatched-roof Gassho-style homes. The triangular roofs distribute the weight of heavy snow ...

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