After visiting and staying with friends in a small town in Niigata Prefecture, staying overnight in a Japanese inn, and making paper at the Japanese Paper Experience House, we visited Ainokura Gasshouzukuri Shuuraku in Toyama Prefecture. This village of thatched roof houses was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995. People still live in these houses. Some have small shops on the first floor. Two of them are inns.
For more information:
Gassho-style Farmhouses
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Japan Guide
Shirakawa Village
August 21, 2006
World Heritage Site: Thatched Roof Village in Toyama Prefecture
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I love Gokayama. I was there in February...when there was 15 feet of snow
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