A signboard that informs the village road near the Gassho-style village in Gifu Shirakawa Village that it will be closed May 1: 18:57

To prevent the spread of the new coronavirus from tourists during the long holidays, a village was built on the village road near the Gassho-style village in Shirakawa Village, Gifu Prefecture, which was registered as a World Heritage site on the 1st. A sign has been set up to notify the closure.

Shirakawa Village's Gassho-zukuri Village is a popular tourist destination that attracts more than 2 million people a year, but if the tourists visit during the consecutive holidays, it may lead to the spread of the infection, so the village will last for 5 days from 2 to 6 days. , In principle, we will close the World Heritage area.

On the 1st, two staff members from the village came out on the 1st, and at the entrance of the village road from the national road to the Gassho-zukuri village and the exit of the nearest highway, a sign saying "We are closing Shirakawago to prevent the spread of infection". deployed.

During the holidays, the village will place security guards at five locations such as the entrance to the village road to encourage tourists not to enter the village.

Kei Hashiwaki, Director of the Shirakawa Village Tourism Promotion Division, said, "I'm very sorry despite the tourist season. I hope the infection will end as soon as possible and the original situation will be restored."

In the Hida region, in Takayama City and Gero City, we have decided to have all the hotels and ryokan associations close during major holidays.

The streets in the center of Takayama, which are crowded with many tourists at this time of the year, were quiet for a day, and a paper was posted on the front of the hotel to inform them of temporary closures.

A man in his 80s in the city said, “I'm lonely, so I want him to return to his place quickly.”