At this time of year, traditional houses are lit up in their full winter glory in Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture. More than 100 spotlights illuminate about 30 thatched-roof houses in the snow.

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

Snow fell intermittently on the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture throughout January. In Shirakawa-go, a village with about 100 traditional gassho-zukuri thatched roof houses, around 30 centimeters ...

Surrounded by mountains, the farmhouses in Shirakawa-Go date to about 1800 ... Each inn has a hot spring of its own and ...

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This hot spring is "monkeys-only." One of Japan’s Three Great ... Those thatched-roof Gassho-zukuri buildings surrounded by the densely forested Japanese Alps earned Shirakawa-go a UNESCO designation, ...

Spring is the ideal time to visit many of the world's most popular vacation destinations. Before the peak summer crowds roll in, travelers can often find pleasant temperatures, fewer tourists and ...

And while its capital, Tokyo, is a must-visit for first timers, Japan has so much more to offer travelers of all types, from cherry blossoms to white sand beaches to soothing onsen (hot spring spas).

With all this in mind, where should you travel in 2021 if you want to go beyond the U.S. borders? I turned to four women who run some of the most influential travel agencies in the country to see ...