057-529-6611

NIPPONIA is a luxury hotel brand of renovated old and precious Japanese architectures remaining throughout various areas in Japan. Respecting its historical significance, each architecture is revitalized as a facility where you can feel the lifestyle, culture and history of the land.

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This deluxe hotel was renovated from the kominka (a traditional Japanese farmhouse) of a wealthy farming household built a few hundred years ago.

Standing on top of a hill looking over beautiful terraced rice fields, it is surrounded by stone walls as though in a citadel. Huge wooden columns and beams were assembled without nails. A shiny black ceiling was created by the soothing smoke of an Irori fireplace from over a few hundred years ago.

Zenagi was started to contribute to the regional revitalization of the Kiso valley. The population and economic decline in the countryside would not stop. "What can we do?" they asked themselves. The answer was Zenagi. They chose to spread Japan’s wonderful landscape and culture to the world by inviting wealth, prosperity and people here, to save their homeland.

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057-696-1187

The Toyota Shirakawa-go Eco-Institute is a stop along the Hakusan-Shirakawago White Road between Ishikawa and Gifu. This stop if just outside the east toll booth (Parking Lot P13).

Founded in 2005 as an educational facility for adults and children to educate them about nature and ecology in a separate educational/museum building. It also has clean, modern hotel, restaurant and onsen facilities.

See their website for details.

Open year-round, but road may be closed or difficult in winter.