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Hida Folk Village, Hida no Sato (飛騨民俗村, 飛騨の里, Hida Minzoku Mura, Hida no Sato) is an open-air museum of close to 30 old farmhouses illustrating the traditional architectural styles of the mountainous regions of Japan. Of particular interest are the thatched and shingled roofs, such as the gasshō-zukuri-styled buildings. Many ...
The hidden village is a separate land that is imagined to be deep in the mountains, in the mound hole, and in the far upper stream of the river, and at the bottom of the abyss. It is said that it is a Hinden Hyakushomura, but the hidden village is a peaceful world without any sorrow, and there is a flow at times different from the human world.
Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district (郡, gun), which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is ...
Genkai shūraku (限界集落, literally limitative or limitational hamlet, also translated as marginal hamlet) is any village or hamlet within a merged town or village in Japan that has experienced depopulation and in danger of disappearing altogether, largely because half of the people living there reach the age of 65 and over.
The village was founded in 1918 in Hyūga, [2] in the mountains of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyūshū, but in 1939 they were warned that much of their land was about to be submerged by the construction of a dam, so they searched for a new home and found 10 hectares in Moroyama, Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture. A few members remain at Hyūga to ...
Villages of Tokyo are local governments categorized as villages under Japanese law. ... (village) This page was last edited on 20 October 2023, at 15:09 (UTC). ...
Yamanakako (山中湖村, Yamanakako-mura) is a village located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2019, the village had an estimated population of 5,826 in 2401 households, [1] and a population density of 110 inhabitants per square kilometre (280/sq mi). The total area of the village is 52.81 km 2 (20.39 sq mi).
Matsukawa (松川村, Matsukawa-mura) is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019, the village had an estimated population of 9,689 in 3813 households, [1] and a population density of 210 persons per km 2. The total area of the village is 47.07 square kilometres (18.17 sq mi). [2]