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Ogimachi is located in Shirakawa-go, while Ainokura and Suganuma are in Gokayama. [4] In total, the area inscribed as a world heritage site for these three villages is 68 hectares (0.68 km 2). However, each village area is protected within a buffer zone (Buffer Zone I) in which strict regulation preserves the historic environment.
Shirakawa-go 白川村 in winter Gasshō-zukuri - traditionally thatched houses in Shirakawa-go. Shirakawa (白川村, Shirakawa-mura, lit. ' White River Village ') 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 ...
Saeki also estimates that the "Gassho Guesthouse Kazura," formerly the residence of the Sakai family in Inotani Village and now moved to Sakuraga-ike, was built in the same period. [ 6 ] The Murakamike Residence was originally owned by the Yamazaki family, but after the Yamazaki family moved to Hokkaido at the end of the Edo period, the ...
Gasshō-zukuri, Ogimachi village. Minka are generally treated as historic landmarks, and many have been designated for preservation by municipalities or the national government. The tremendous regional variation of minka has also been preserved in open-air museums such as Nihon Minka-en in Kawasaki, where examples from around Japan are on ...
Ainokura hamlet (相倉集落, Ainokura shuraku), in the Gokayama region, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in December 1995 as one of the three villages of gassho-style houses. [6] Ainokura has 20 gassho-style houses known as minka. [7] Most of them are 100 to 200 years old, and the oldest is said to have been built some 400 years ago. [2]
A village (村, mura) [a] is a local administrative unit in Japan. [1] It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi), and town (町, chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
Panorama of Shirakawa. Shirakawa (白川町, Shirakawa-chō) is a town located in Kamo District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the town had an estimated population of 8,288 and a population density of 36 persons per km 2, in 3159 households. [1] The total area of the town was 237.90 square kilometres (91.85 sq mi).
Ogimachi (白川村荻町, Shirakawa-mura Ogimachi) [58] mountain village 3 45.6 ha (113 acres) Farming village with gasshō-zukuri houses, paddy and other fields. Part of the World Heritage Site Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama: Shirakawa, Gifu