Shirakawa
Shirakawa 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Shirakawa-go and Wada house.
Shirakawa-go
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Shirakawa-gō, formally Shirakawa-mura, is a historic village in Gifu. Together with Gokayama in Toyama, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.
Shirakawa
- Categories: village of Japan and locality
- Location: Ono district, Gifu, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.271° or 36° 16′ 16″ northLongitude
136.8986° or 136° 53′ 55″ eastPopulation
1,720Elevation
585 metres (1,919 feet)Open location code
8Q8R7VCX+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 7114441473OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7419037Wikidata ID
Q1203744
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Shirakawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيراكاوا”
- Armenian: “Շիրակավա”
- Armenian: “Սիրակավա (գյուղ)”
- Burmese: “ရှိရခဝရွာ၊ ဂိဖု”
- Catalan: “Shirakawa”
- Chinese: “白川村”
- Croatian: “Shirakawa-go”
- Czech: “Širakawa”
- Danish: “Shirakawa-go”
- Dutch: “Shirakawa”
- Finnish: “Shirakawa”
- French: “Shirakawa”
- German: “Shirakawa”
- Hungarian: “Sirakava”
- Indonesian: “Desa Shirakawa”
- Indonesian: “Shirakawa-go”
- Indonesian: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Irish: “Shirakawa”
- Italian: “Shirakawa”
- Japanese: “Shirakawa-mura”
- Japanese: “しらかわむら”
- Japanese: “シラカワムラ”
- Japanese: “白川村”
- Korean: “시라카와무라”
- Korean: “시라카와촌”
- Lithuanian: “Širakava”
- Macedonian: “Ширакава (село во Гифу)”
- Macedonian: “Ширакава”
- Persian: “شیراکاوا، گیفو”
- Persian: “شیراکاوا”
- Polish: “Shirakawa”
- Portuguese: “Shirakawa”
- Russian: “Сиракава”
- Slovenian: “Širakava”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa Oono Gifu”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa Oono”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa-go”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa-gō”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa, Oono”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa”
- Spanish: “Shirakawago”
- Tagalog: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Tagalog: “Shirakawa”
- Thai: “ชิรากาวะ”
- Turkish: “Shirakawa-mura”
- Turkish: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Turkish: “Shirakawa”
- Ukrainian: “Сіракава”
- Ukrainian: “Шіракава”
- Uzbek: “Shirakava (Gifu, qishloq)”
- Uzbek: “Shirakava”
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Localities in the Area
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