Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World Heritage Site. The roofs are steeply slanted, products of a building technique called Gassho ...

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 regions. It's famous for its traditional thatched-roof Gassho-style homes ... Come and visit a mountain village that appears to be ...

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 ... and the beautiful gassho-zukuri style houses ...

The Ainokura Gassho-style Village ... Together with the Ogimachi Village in Shirakawa-go, Gifu Prefecture, it was designated a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site as part of the Historic Villages ...