The film "Village Potters of Onda" explores the traditional pottery-making practices of a rural Japanese village. It highlights the serene lifestyle of the villagers, who engage in farming and ...

Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama and his wife Hila convinced the owners of an abandoned Japanese farmer’s house to allow them to transform it into a guest house back in 2012.

There are 20 gassho-zukuri houses in Gokayama’s Ainokura Village and nine in Suganuma Village, the latter of which is where the Airbnb lodging is located. Image: Satoshi Nagare The building houses a ...

Daisuke Kajiyama and his late wife, Hila, spent two years restoring an abandoned traditional Japanese house. The couple turned the 96-year-old wooden home into a quaint guesthouse in Shizuoka ...

It’s hard to say what’s cooler about the Japanese shōya house at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens — the centuries-old wood structure that was once the center of a ...

Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama and his wife Hila convinced the owners of an abandoned Japanese farmer’s house to allow them to transform it into a guest house back in 2012.

Access to the Japanese Heritage Shōya House is included with regular museum admission ($25–$29). Like the rest of the Huntington, it’s open every day but Tuesday, though the Shōya House is ...

Among these, wooden structures built before 1965 are referred to as "kominka" (traditional Japanese houses), and it is feared that around 10,000 of these are vacant and may fall into ruin.