Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

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 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 ...

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.