Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses, which have steeply pitched thatched roofs to endure heavy snowfall.

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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 ...

"The downside of traditional Japanese houses is that they were never insulated and they would be really hot in the summer and cold in the wintertime," Byron said. "Everybody who's renovated an old ...

He also happened to have his heart set on a traditional Japanese house, typically known as kominka, which are usually passed down over generations. “I wanted to have a traditional house in the ...

A small north Queensland sugar town is the last place someone might expect to find the oldest known traditional Japanese ... She has been living in the "Japanese House" with her architect husband ...

Our company specializes in handling traditional Japanese kominka houses across regions such as Kyoto, offering a comprehensive one-stop service that includes sales, renovation, management ...

(Peter Crimmins/WHYY) Something else he found: many of the same people who formed the organization Friends of the Japanese House and Garden in 1982 to oversee Shofuso – known for its traditional ...