It is as breathtakingly beautiful as it is hard to reach.
I am wandering through the fairytale-like Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa-go, a famed UNESCO World Heritage site, marveling at its picture-perfect, gassho-zukuri farmhouses.
Built without a single nail, the centuries-old, soaring-to-the-sky thatched-roof structures, which sit amid strikingly vivid emerald-green rice paddies, are a sight to behold — Instagram-worthy relics of a Japan that's now mostly lost to time.
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