Kataribe — Local services in Shirakawa

The best store in Shirakawa-go for anything related to Higurashi. You can step inside and check out their neat displays of unique merchandise that is not for sell. This store also sells a variety of trinkets, decorations and souvenirs related to Shirakawa-go itself. Be mindful to remove your backpack before entering as the aisles are pretty cramped and it can get easily...

This was a very nice run shop in this section of town. The woman running it was very helpful with me. I was able to get a green sarubobo monkey that had Shirakawa-go written on it in Kanji as a charm. She was also very kind to point out areas of interest that were inspired from the Higurashi anime. Great...

Heard about this shop having gassho house shaped ice cream sandwiches. On arrival, we didn't see that as an option, but the cup did come with a cute gassho shaped wafer. They advertised coffee flavor ice cream but only had chocolate and milk flavors. We tried the milk - it was very creamy and...