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Areas of sea-effect snow showers returned to areas that have been hit hard by snowfall in recent weeks. A couple of storms brought milder conditions to central Japan last week as they swept across ...
The Chūbu region (中部地方, Chūbu-chihō), Central region, or Central Japan (中部日本, Chūbu-nihon) is a region in the middle of Honshū, Japan's main island. In a wide, classical definition, it encompasses nine prefectures ( ken ): Aichi , Fukui , Gifu , Ishikawa , Nagano , Niigata , Shizuoka , Toyama , and Yamanashi .
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.
A push of frigid air triggered days' worth of record-setting snowfall that buried portions of Japan and caused scores of travel disruptions along the way. Snow first began late last week as Arctic ...
During the winter, the winds from the Ibuki Mountains are a cause of much of the snowfall on the Nōbi Plain covering Gifu and Aichi prefectures. The Ane River originates in the Ibuki Mountains. [1] The range is named after Mount Ibuki, the highest peak in the range at an elevation of 1377 meters above sea-level.
Hida region (brown-yellow) in Gifu Prefecture. Hida (飛騨) is the northern portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan. [1] The Hida region received its name because the area was formerly part of Hida Province, before the formation of prefectures in Japan.
Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa, Niigata. The Hokuriku region has the highest volume of snowfall of any inhabited and arable region in the world. This is because dry Siberian air masses, which develop high humidity over the Sea of Japan, are forced upwards when they encounter the mountains of Honshū, causing the humidity to condense as snow.
Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県, Gifu-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. [ 2 ] : 246 [ 3 ] : 126 Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 (as of 1 June 2019 [update] ) and has a geographic area of 10,621 square kilometres (4,101 sq mi ).