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The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are one of Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The cultural property consists of three historic mountain villages over an area of 68 hectares (170 acres) in the remote Shogawa river valley, stretching across the border of Gifu and Toyama Prefectures in central Japan.
Minka. Coordinates: 36°24′N 136°53′E. A gasshō-zukuri -styled minka home in Shirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture. Minka ( Japanese: 民家, lit. "house of the people") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles . In the context of the four divisions of society, Minka were the dwellings of ...
Shirakawa (白川村, Shirakawa-mura) is a village located in Ōno District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is best known for being the site of Shirakawa-gō, a small, traditional village showcasing a building style known as gasshō-zukuri. Together with Gokayama in Nanto, Toyama, it is one of UNESCO 's World Heritage Sites .
Gokayama ( Japanese: 五箇山) is an area within the city of Nanto in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture. [1] The survival of this traditional architectural style is attributed to the region's secluded ...
Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district (郡, gun), which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is ...
The Association of the Most Beautiful Villages in Japan (「日本で最も美しい村」連合, Nihon de mottomo utsukushii mura rengō) is a Japanese nonprofit organization of listing some of the most beautiful villages and towns in Japan. The association is active on enhancement and protection of Japanese rural heritage, cultural fairs, and ...
Japan accepted the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 30 June 1992. [1] As of July 2021, twenty-five properties have been inscribed on the World Heritage List: twenty cultural sites and five natural sites. [1] A further five sites and one site extension have been submitted for future inscription and were on the Tentative List as of 2017. [1]
Sweden Hills. Sweden Hills (スウェーデンヒルズ, Suēden Hiruzu) is a Swedish-style village in Tōbetsu, Hokkaidō in Japan. [1] The houses are wooden and painted falu red. The idea of a Swedish-styled village came when a Swedish ambassador visited the nearby town center of Tobetsu and thought that the climate was quite similar to the ...