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akikonomu Says: Stay around the Shimonshi, Ainokura area if you visit between 23 to 26 September of any year. The annual festival involving dancing and singing takes place in 2 different shrines and constitue the most important festival of the region.
akikonomu Says: Further afield from Suganuma lies Ainokura, another gassho zukuri settlement midway up a mountain. This prettier settlement's houses are dispersed on the different levels of rice terraces and is a photographers' hotspot.Makes for a good stroll in the cooling evenings or...
akikonomu Says: Enroute from Shirakawa-go to Shimonishi, you'd first pass by Suganuma, the cut off gassho zukuri settlement set in the valley. A smallish settlement with less than 20 houses, the mountain backdrop and quiet solitude of the village reminds you of what the past may be like.As...
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Enroute from Shirakawa-go to Shimonishi, you'd first pass by Suganuma, the cut off gassho zukuri settlement set in the valley. A smallish settlement with less...
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Set in the Gokayama area, in the midst of mountains and forests, lies small villages making up Nanto-shi of Toyama-ken. Although highways are currently being completed to make the area accessible to...
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