Famous Places, Historic Ruins, Sightseeing Spots, Festivals and Events
- The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are designated UNESCO World Heritage sites
- Wadake Home—the largest gasshō-zukuri in the area
- Shirakawa-gō Hirase Onsen (designated as a "national recuperation onsen")
- Miboro dam, Lake Miboro
- Hida Tunnel
- Hakusan Rindō (hiking path)
- Amau Pass (天生峠, Amau tōge?), famous for its fall colors; 30 minutes away by foot is the Kōsō wetlands, also famous
- Shirakawa Hachiman Shrine, where every October 14–15, the Nigorizake Festival is held
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“Satan, what ails you? Where’s the famous tongue?
Thou onetime Prince of Conversationists?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)