In the 24 hours through 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 60 centimeters of snow fell in Yuzawa Town in Niigata Prefecture and 55 centimeters in Shirakawa Village in Gifu Prefecture. As of 6 p.m. on Wednesday ...

The next day, I head deeper into the mountains to visit the village of Shirakawa-go. Here, the practice of community roof rethatching has earned it UNESCO recognition. The peaked building style is ...

Ogimachi, the largest village in Japan's UNESCO-listed Shirakawa-go region, looks like something out of a winter wonderland. Known for its unique gassho-zukuri farmhouses with steeply pitched ...

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Hakuba, a snowy village in central Japan ... The Gassho-style houses in Shirakawa-go are a big hit with tourists. Some further-flung destinations, like Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture, are ...

Shirakawa Village in Japan has an automatic sprinkler system designed to protect its historic thatched-roof houses from fires. When a fire is detected, approximately 60 concealed sprinklers emerge ...

A UNESCO World Heritage site, Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses ... Known as the "Venice of Japan," Ine is a fishing village where houses, called funaya, are built directly over ...

Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses, which are more than two centuries old. These thatched-roof houses ...

Arlington Row, with its ivy-covered cottages, is straight out of a Jane Austen novel. Imagine a village where boats replace cars, and canals wind past thatched-roof cottages and blooming gardens.

The historic Henry River Mill Village, located in Hickory, N.C., is on sale for nearly $2 million Murray Close/Getty ; Marketplace Realty Inc. Fans of The Hunger Games can dig into the origins of ...