In Japan, UNESCO has registered ten sites as world heritages, and Shirakawa-go in northern Gifu Prefecture is one of them. To protect the world heritage sites and to educate the public about the region, it is necessary to preserve not only the site's natural environments and architectural structures but also its various unique cultural assets. Preservation through virtual reality (VR) can be used for to solve this problem. The necessary procedures and techniques for digitization of external views and techniques for digitization of external views and cultural aspects of Shirakawa-go by using VR technology are discussed. The Shirakawa-go area is also reconstructed in three-dimensional.