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 ...

Shirakawa-go: Thatched-Roofed World Heritage Site Located in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World ...

Useful tips for visiting Shirakawa-go and Gokayama In Shirakawa-go, you can reach the village of Ogimachi by bus from Takayama (50 km), about an hour and a half from the city centre. In the hamlet ...

Snow fell intermittently on the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture throughout January. In Shirakawa-go, a village with about 100 traditional gassho-zukuri thatched roof houses, around 30 centimeters ...

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