Laid out in an attractive hillside setting half a mile southwest of Takayama Station, the houses many of them three or four stories high, with steeply pitched grass-thatch roofs are oddly reminiscent of those in European Alpine villages.
The grass-thatch roofs of the houses rarely need maintenance.
mnli hypothesis: The grass-thatch roofs of the houses rarely need maintenance. premise: Laid out in an attractive hillside setting half a mile southwest of Takayama Station, the houses many of them three or four stories high, with steeply pitched grass-thatch roofs are oddly reminiscent of those in European Alpine villages.