Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in places, ...

Some villages feel like they were painted into being. They offer a pause from city rush, a glimpse of local life and architecture preserved across centuries, and views that stay with you long after ...