The winter "Shirakawa-go light-up" event started on January 13 ... Note: Gassho is the act of joining a pair of hands in prayer. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside ... and nowhere more spectacularly than Gokayama and Shirakawa- go, said Tom Allan in the Financial Times.

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 ...

Located in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World Heritage Site. The roofs are steeply slanted ...

The Gassho-style houses found in the Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are rare examples of their kind in Japan. Located in a river valley surrounded by the rugged high-mountain Chubu ...

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 Myozenji temple, which was built in the latter half of the ...