Shirakawa-go: Thatched-Roofed World Heritage Site Located in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World ...

According to the Shirakawa village board of education, this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved climbing the steep roof of the living quarters at ...

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 ...

Ogimachi, a hamlet that bears witness to Japanese rural life of ages past Ogimachi, a hamlet in Shirakawa-go with some sixty gasshō-zukuri houses, most of which date back to the 19 th century ...

You can still see them in places, however – and nowhere more spectacularly than Gokayama and Shirakawa- go, said Tom Allan in ...