The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are two traditional mountain villages located in the Shogawa river valley ...

The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the ... Development pressures throughout the entire village of Ogimachi are controlled by the 2008 Shirakawa Village Landscape Ordinance, ...

Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture is ... part of life here and is essential when rethatching these homes. Come and visit a mountain village that appears to be frozen in time.

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture--Villagers in this renowned UNESCO World Heritage site came together to re-thatch the roof of a multitiered house here ... to the Shirakawa village board of education ...

The Shirakawa village office will raise fees at municipal parking lots on Oct. 1 in hopes of thinning out the crowds of ...

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 ...

Japan’s Shirakawa-go village ... are still part of an active rural economy where village houses, rice fields, bamboo groves, and grazed hills have persisted for what might be over a millennia.