these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only ...

The Nanto City Tourism Association (Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture; President Seiichi Kawai) launched sales on December 6 for ...

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-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 ...

Found in one of Japan’s heaviest snowfall areas, it is lined with gassho-zukuri houses. These large homes with steeply ...

In neighbouring Toyama Prefecture, the Ainokura and Suganuma gassho-zukuri villages in Gokayama offer a glimpse of life that feels straight out of Japanese folk tales. Here, the villages and their ...

The Ainokura Gassho-style Village ... Kokiriko is another name for Dengaku, a traditional Japanese performing art, and has been passed down through generations to the present day.

The Ainokura Gassho-style Village ... Kokiriko is another name for Dengaku, a traditional Japanese performing art, and has been passed down through generations to the present day.