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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 ...

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 ...