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In the precinct of Dairenji Temple, famous water, Nurinuki Water used to gush out. Its name reported...

Saint Rennyo who established the foundation for the development of the Jodo Shin Sect, had a narrow ...

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute named Tagabana in the Shibayamachi brothel district in Otsu...

According to the legend, once upon a time, Chikubu Islands in the north of the lake were formed by t...

In June 2, 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide killed his lord, Oda Nobunaga, at Honnoji Temple in Kyoto. Soon af...

In 815, while Kobo Daishi Kukai was going on a pilgrimage all over the country, from around Oishi he...

One day, while Fujiwara no Hidesato was crossing the Seta no Karahashi Bridge, a gigantic snake abou...

It was reportedly the foundation stone of Horanomiya Palace built in the Nara Period [in the 8th cen...

It is a temple related to Fujiwara no Hidesato famous for the extermination of the gigantic centiped...

In 859, Chisho Daishi Enchin went to Mt. Tanakami to seek good material to build Miidera Temple. He ...

It was reportedly founded by Chisho Daishi, the founder of the Tendaijimon Sect in 862, and was conv...

It is a Jodo Sect temple built in 1532 by Sainen, a monk, in the place where Fujiwara no Hidesato’s ...

It is a temple located ahead of 800 stone steps on the mountainside of Mt. Tachiki looking over Shis...

It was reportedly founded by Priest Enkai in 876, in the Heian Period [between the late 8th and 12th...

It is the temple belonging to the Tendaijimon Sect located near the summit of Mt. Tanakami, and its ...

The Battle of Awazugahara took place between Kiso Yoshinaka and Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Awazu, Omi...

Four deities are enshrined in this shrine: Honda Tadatoshi, Honda Tadatsugu, Honda Yasutoshi, and Ho...

Two deities, Kagutsuchi no Mikoto and Okuninushi no Mikoto are enshrined in this shrine. The hill on...

The River Seta flows from Lake Biwa to the south. As mountains are very close to both sides of the r...

Otsu abacuses were sold on the Tokaido Road between Otani-cho and Oiwake-cho as one of Otsu’s repres...

An approximately 50-centimeter-high stone wall can be seen between the rail track and the lakeshore ...

In 1873, the government promulgated the Conscription Ordinance, and every adult male became liable f...

There used to be many landing places called seki at the Otsu Port in the Edo Period [between the 17t...

Honjin is an accommodation facility for feudal lords and court nobles placed in post towns during th...

It is a 664-meter long tunnel which was completed in 1880 when the railway between Kyoto and Otsu wa...

Kurumaishi Stones are cut granite on which ruts were engraved. They were laid for the approximately ...

It is the road from Shigasato, passing through Shigatoge Pass and Yamanaka-cho, and reaching Kitashi...

It is the road from Miidera Temple passing through Mt. Nyoigatake and reaching Shishigatani in Kyoto...

It is a bypass going through the mountains to the north side of the Osakagoe Road from Miidera-cho t...

It is the junction of the Hokkokukaido Road and Tokaido Road. Its name derives from the fact that th...

It is also called Kosho Sosei Daijingu Shrine. It was originally located in the premises of the offi...

From here towards the lakeside, there was the site where Sawagura, Hikone Domain feudal lord’s resid...

The deity enshrined in this shrine is Ebisu no Mikoto. It is located in an alley between private hou...

It is also known as Akatsuka Daimyojin, as it is located on top of the Akatsuka Burial Mound. As the...

It is a hall which Chisho Daishi Enchin, the restorer of Miidera Temple, founded during the Gangyo E...

Enshrining Emperor Ojin as its deity, this shrine is located halfway up Mt. Usa to the west of Omi J...

The three deities enshrined in this shrine are Okuninushi no Mikoto, Tanaka Tsuneyo and Daidoji Taba...

This shrine has been worshipped as the tutelary of Hiratsumura village since ancient times. The sacr...

It was built in front of the Genju-an hut ruins in the precinct of Chikatsuo Shrine in 1780. Discipl...

In December 1832, Minamoto no Yoshinaga, a descendant of Kiso Yoshinaka and a Shogunate physician bu...

It is located halfway up Mt. Nagara, and Takehaya Susano no Mikoto is enshrined in the main hall wit...

This stone monument was built in the precinct of Honda Shrine in October 21, 1932 to praise the mart...

A famous haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, started living in Genju-an hut in April 1690. He lived leisurely,...

Imai Kanehira was a general in the late Heian Period [in the 12th century]. It is known that he loya...

It is located on the top of Mt. Dainich, and there is currently neither chief priest nor temple guar...

The River Seta is the only river flowing from Lake Biwa, and the Seta no Karahashi Bridge over the r...

It is located in the forest called Terabe no Mori at the south foot of Mt. Garan where temple buildi...

Although it is currently a temple belonging to the Jodo Sect, according to the temple’s records, it ...

The deity enshrined in this shrine is Kibi no Makibi, the Minister of the Right, a government offici...

The deity enshrined in this shrine is Emperor Kobun [also known as Prince Otomo], which is the same ...

It is a keyhole-shaped burial mound located in Kokubu 1-chome [icchome] near the west bank of the Ri...

The deity enshrined in this shrine is Emperor Kobun [also known as Prince Otomo]. According to the s...

Yokooyama Burial Mounds were believed to have been built in the early 7th century at the end of the ...

The deity enshrined in this shrine is Hondawake no Mikoto [also known as Emperor Ojin]. It is said t...

This is a festival of Hirano Shine, the enshrined deity of which is Seidai Myojin, also known as the...

The wooden statue of Matsuo Basho enshrined in the Okinado of Gichuji Temple has a nyoi staff, one o...

This is an event held since 1956 to announce the coming of spring at Lake Biwa. In the event, prayer...

This is a festival held at Omi Jingu Shrine and Iwai Shrine that have a deep connection with Emperor...

This summer festival takes place at Karasaki Shrine. It is also called Nagoshi no Harae where people...

This is a festival of Takebe Taisha Shrine, the Shinto shrine with the highest rank in Omi. This gre...

This is a festival of Tenson Shrine and is famous for being one of the three major lake province fes...

This is Shinozu Shrine. It has been worshipped as the local deity of Nakanosho Village. The year of ...

This is former Biwako Hotel. It was built in 1934 as the first international tourist hotel in the pr...

This is Karasaki Shrine. It is one of the auxiliary shrines of Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine. It was reporte...

This is a pine tree in Karasaki. It is the sacred pine tree of Karasaki Shrine and a solitary pine t...

This is Sekisemimaru Shrine. It is believed to have been founded as a tutelary deity of Osaka checki...

This is Shohoji Temple. It was built on the mountainside of Mt. Iwama with an elevation of 443 meter...

These are the ruins of the abandoned Ano Temple. The temple ruins are one of the ruins related to Ot...

This is Wada Shrine. According to the shrine’s history, it was founded in 675 and enshrines Takaokam...

This is former Zeze Castle Town. In the Edo Period [in the early 17th century] Tokugawa Ieyasu aband...

This is the Shiga Prefectural Government Main Building. The current building was designed jointly by...

This is the Otsumatsuri Hikiyama Exhibition Pavilion. Otsu-matsuri is one of the three major lake pr...

This is Otsu Hyakuchokan. In the Edo Period [between the 17th and mid-19th centuries], Otsu was bust...

Otsu-e are folk art paintings that were sold in Otani-cho and Oiwake-cho within Otsu-juku, one of th...

This is the Great Buddha of Shiga. A large stone statue of the Buddha stands at the side of Shigagoe...

These are the ruins of abandoned Minamishiga Temple. The site of the temple ruins is one of those re...

These are the Hyakketsu Burial Mounds remaining along the Shigagoe-no-michi road in the mountains of...

These are the ruins of Sufukuji Temple. Sufukuji Temple was built at the request of Emperor Tenji to...

The Setanokara Bridge can be written in two ways in Japanese. It appears on the setting of a fierce ...

In the 2nd year of the Jokyo Era (1685), Matsuo Bashō, who visited Otsu for the first time, fell in ...

One of The Eight Views of Ōmi . “The Distant View of Awazu”, with its row of pine trees ...

The Rokasensuisō Villa is a local residence of the Nihonga Master Yamamoto Shunkyo (the building is ...

Zeze Shrine is said to be the creation of the Nara period. In the Middle Ages, reverence from variou...

Zeze Castle was built in the 6th year of Kecho era (1601), and is also nicknamed Sekiroku Castle. Ho...

Iwai shrine is said to have been founded around the time of Emperor Tenji. The enshrined deities are...

Ishiba’s Perpetual Lamp was built at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in the 2nd year of the ...

Emperor Kanmu is the venerable maritime transport god for the Tenson shrine, and it is famous for th...

There is a record that Prince Ōtomo (Tenji’s Imperial Prince) who was defeated by Emperor Tenj...

Ōtsu is home to the third largest collection nationwide of Important Cultural Properties designated ...

Ōjiyama’s Tumuli (Kofun Group) consists of a few rectangular‐shaped mounds in the Shiga prefec...

Ōtsu Kyō (Ōtsu Palace) is a short-lived capital that Emperor Tenji relocated in 667 and was destroye...

The Ōmi-jingū Shrine has Emperor Tenji as the Main Enshrined God. In order to celebrate Emperor Tenj...

This is a stone tower built at the west side from the former Tokaido in the Chōanji temple’s p...

Constructed in 1906, Nagara Shrine’s two-storied tower gate is a magnificent work from the Meiji era...

Mio Jinja shrine is said to date back to ancient times when Izanagi no Mikoto, Lord Izanagi, a deity...

Located at about 500 meters east of Seta’s stone Bridge. It is called to be Omi Ichinomiya, on...

About 100 meters East from the Keihan Railway’s Otani Station, along the national highway No. ...

On the mountainside Chausuyama (155m), there is the second largest kofun (tumulus) of the prefecture...

Until the middle of the Edo period there was a small mound where Kiso Yoshinaka was buried, but Mats...

Since it was built as “Otsu public hall” in 1934, its name and purpose has been changed ...

This canal runs at the north side of the Keihan Electric Railway’s Miidera Station. Constructi...

During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi replaced the Sakamoto Castle and built the Ots...