Planning a trip to Shirakawa-go for an amazing autumn or winter experience? This first timer's travel guide to Shirakawa-go will provide you with useful and easy-to-follow information on how to get there, itinerary, where to stay, and a lot of travel tips and reminders.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site declared in 1995, Shirakawa-go is a small traditional village famous for its clusters of traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses. Along with Gokayama, this amazing cultural property is consisted of scenic and secluded mountain villages that spans from Gifu to Toyama Prefectures over an area of 68 hectares in central Japan. "Gassho" means the act of prayer and the highlight of the village is seeing the farmhouses with gassho-zukuri roof, whose slanted thatched roofs resemble hands in prayer. They are architecturally designed to easily shed snow from their roofs during winter, some of which are more around 100 to 300 hundred years old and have stand the test of time.






