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Traditional villages in Japan

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Guide to Shirakawago, most beautiful traditional villages in Japan


Guide to Shirakawago, most beautiful traditional villages in Japan

Shirakawago (白川郷) is a traditional village that located along the Shogawa River in Ono district, Gifu Prefectures, Japan. In 1995, this village is added in UNESCO world heritage site. Shirakawago is one of most famous tourist attractions in Japan, and it is most beautiful villages in Japan as well.

The highlights of Shirakawago are architectural, and how they construct the house. Once you visit, you will see all the houses in this village are large (three to four stories), and used tall roof with a slope 60 degree. The roof is consisting of clay, wood, bamboo and bent. This architecture, in japan they called as Gassho-zukuri. For the reason that they used the tall roof because the snow is very heavy in winter season if they used normal roof the snow volume could damage to the house, that why they used this roof.

Another feature of this village is all the house was constructed by without nails. They used nature method to construct by using the wood overlap each other.

During the winter season (around January - February) they will open the lights in their house in evening once a week for tourism promote.

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