Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
A World Heritage Site in Japan, inscribed in 1995 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 1995
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iv)(v)
- Property area
- approx. 68 ha
- Component parts
- 4
- Coordinates
- 36.4000, 136.8833
- UNESCO ID
- 734
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- Name (Japanese)
- 白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落
- French
- Villages historiques de Shirakawa-go et Gokayama
- Spanish
- Aldeas históricas de Shirakawa-go y Gokayama
- Chinese
- 白川乡和五屹山历史村落
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- Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara (2026)
- Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (1993)
- Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration (2013)
- Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (2000)
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (2018)
- Himeji-jo (1993)
- Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (2011)
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) (1996)
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) (1994)
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara (1998)
- Itsukushima Shinto Shrine (1996)
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