This is the 39th time it has been held. At 5:30 p.m., 108 lights lit up 32 thatched roofs, and the beautiful gassho-zukuri style houses emerged. Visitors were amazed by the enchanting scene in the ...

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where more than 20 families still live in steeply pitched gassho-zukuri (thatched-roof) houses dating from the Edo period. The prefecture also offers a healthy dose of Shinto shrines and Buddhist ...

5-6. Made by Shiwakawago House of Purin in Shirakawago, a World Heritage site featuring traditional “gassho-zukuri” steep-roofed thatched farmhouses, the dessert consists of three layers of ...

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The Ainokura Gassho-style Village, the main site of the tour, is home to 20 remaining Gassho-style houses, many of which were built during the late Edo period to the Meiji era. In 1995 ...