Gifu
Ono district
Shirakawa

Shirakawa-go

Shirakawa-gō, formally Shirakawa-mura, is a historic village in . Together with in Toyama, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: historic village in Gifu prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Shirakawa”, “Shirakawa Village”, “Shirakawa-gō”, “Shirakawago”, “Shirakawagō”, and “Shirakawagou”
Photo: JordyMeow, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wada house and Gasshozukuri Minkaen Outdoor Museum.

Museum
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is a museum.

Museum
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Bus station
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is a bus station in the village of in Japan. Bus services are provided by Kaetsuno Bus, Nohi Bus, and Gifu Bus.

Shirakawa-go

Latitude
36.2573° or 36° 15′ 26″ north
Longitude
136.9068° or 136° 54′ 25″ east
Elevation
495 metres (1,624 feet)
Open location code
8Q8R7W44+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 683765481
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­unesco_world_heritage
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6621343
Wiki­data ID
Q1002193
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Portuguese—“Shirakawa-go” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Shirakawa-gō”
  • Chinese: “白川乡”
  • Chinese: “白川鄉”
  • Croatian: “Shirakawa-go”
  • Danish: “Shirakawa-go”
  • Dutch: “Shirakawa-gō”
  • French: “Shirakawa-gō”
  • French: “Shirakawagō”
  • Hungarian: “Sirakava-gó”
  • Irish: “Shirakawa-gō”
  • Japanese: “Shirakawa-gō”
  • Japanese: “しらかわごう”
  • Japanese: “白川郷”
  • Korean: “시라카와고”
  • Portuguese: “Shirakawa-go”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shirakawa-go”. Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.