What you’ll see & do
Book this tour alone or include it in a custom trip
This private tour can be booked as a standalone day or included within a custom Japan itinerary, with hotels, transport, guides, cultural experiences, and local support arranged around your dates.
Gokayama and Shirakawa-go sit in a deep mountain valley on the Shogawa River, cut off from the outside world for most of winter by snow that can reach two metres. The isolation produced one of Japan’s most distinctive architectural traditions – the gassho-zukuri farmhouse, its steeply pitched thatched roof angled like hands pressed together in prayer, designed to shed the weight of months of snow.
Both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Shirakawa-go is the larger and better known – Ogimachi village has over a hundred surviving farmhouses. Gokayama’s villages of Suganuma and Ainokura are smaller, quieter and considerably more atmospheric. You can walk through Suganuma in ten minutes and feel, genuinely, that the 21st century has not yet arrived.
On this private car tour from Kanazawa your guide takes you through both, at the pace the landscape demands
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
LANGUAGE
English · Japanese
AVAILABILITY
Year-round
All private, bookable directly
MEETING POINT
Your hotel lobby
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