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This is Lake Biwa. It is the largest and oldest lake in Japan located in the center of Shiga Prefect...

The River Seta is the only river which flows from Lake Biwa. Adjusting the amount of water of the Ri...

This is an eight-meter high wooden lighthouse. Around this area boatwrights used to live from olden ...

The Eight Views of Omi Province are the eight representative scenic spots of Omi, the land of the la...

It is a group of Kannon Bosatsu (Bodhisattvas) carved upside down on a rock face in Kamitanakami-kir...

The Mt. Tanakami area has been known for good quality Japanese cypress wood since ancient times, and...

At a steep curve of the current of the River Daido, there is a gigantic rock called Sengokuiwa. The ...

It is located three kilometers from Shishitobibashi Bridge towards Shigaraki. Cross the little bridg...

The origin of the name, Sengoku-iwa, varies: a gigantic rock looks like a piled-up 1,000-goku [sengo...

It is a road from Kokubu, Otsu City passing through Mt. Ushio and reaching Koyama, Yamashina-ku, Kyo...

It is a 90.9-centimeter-high large bronze bell-shaped vessel with a lattice-like pattern. It is beli...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

When crossing bridge of the Tsutsui river which is the precints’s boundary of the Miidera Temp...

When Chishō Daishi was crossing this stone bridge he ad a vision of the Seryūji , the temple where h...

This beautiful garden placed on the south side of Kyakuden is also mentioned in some gardens catalog...

Zenhōin is one of the six sub temple of Miidera. The park has a surface of 2681 m² and in 1934 (9th ...

A 4m range sugi (cedar tree) forest. There is a big cedar tree called “Tengu Sugi” accor...

A stone lantern located in front of Kondo. According to the temple story, Emperor Tenchi, who was tr...

On the path that takes to Tōin, Chishō Daishi’s mausoleum, are lined up stone lanterns (tōrō) ...

It is said that there are benefits for parents who are worried about parenting.

Standing on the west side of the pagoda, this simple, rustic stone measures about 3.4 meters in heig...

A part of the sheaf of the scripture house that was built in a raised-floor style is standing direct...

When in front of the wollastonite, you can see eight-petal mountain cherry trees on the right side. ...

Sacred tree of Ishiyamadera. It is said that it is an Ipponsugi (Solitary Japanese Cedar) of the ear...

It is a powerspot where your wish comes true if you go through under the hole.

Wollastonite is made when limestone comes from out of the ground and gets in contact with granite, i...