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Donoue Site

The site is located to the southwest of the Omi Provincial Capital Ruins on a small hill ridge looki...

Omi Provincial Capital Ruins

The provincial capital ruins are located to the east of the River Seta between Sandaiji and Oe 6-cho...

Nishira Burial Mound Cluster

Burial mound number one is 46 meters in total length and 7 meters in height. It is a scallop-shaped ...

Karausuyama Burial Mound

This burial mound was built on the hill ridge line in Suimei 1-Chome [Itchōme]. The mound was washed...

Monument of Shimazaki Toson

In 1893, when a writer, Shimazaki Toson, was 22 years old, he resigned from his teaching job due to ...

Former Otsu Army Cemetery

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

Kurumaishi Stone

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

Fuda no Tsuji Junction

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

Monument of Kiso Yoshinaka

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

Imai Kanehira’s Grave

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

Seta Castle Ruins

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

Kokubu-Otsuka Burial Mound

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

Yokooyama Burial Mound No.1

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

Hyakketsu Burial Mounds

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

The Ruins of Sufukuji Temple

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

Zeze Castle Remains

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

Mausoleum of Emperor Kōbun

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

Remains of Ōtsukyō

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

Remains of Ōsakayamaseki

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

Tumuli (Kofun) of Chausuyama

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

Ōtsu Castle Remains

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

Tsutsujōmyō Tumulus

The 4 th year of the Jisho era (1180), Emperor Go-Shirakawa’s prince, Mochihito and Minamoto n...

Mio Yōgo-ishi Stone

As you climb up the approach road leading from Yotsutsuji of the Kangakuin temple to Yamanote, a big...

Matsuo-bashō Haiku Monument

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694 ) who loved the area of Omi, on the 15th day of the 4th year of the Genroku ...

Yūkikyō

It was built in 1999 in a garden that reminisces the accomplishments of the scholar priest Rocho who...

Statue of Murasaki Shikibu

Bronze statue of Murasaki Shikibu, whom is said to get inspiration for “The Tale of Genji̶...

Bashō’s monument

Circular column with a height of 1.7 m, carved with the same contents as the “Basho Jiga Sangu...

Nasuyoichi Jizō-son

The small shrine “Nasuyoichi Jizō” under the big slope (stone stairs) that leads to the ...

Hiramyojinyogo-seki Stone

The Hiramyojinyogo-seki Stone past the Shinosho and located in front of the Myooin is regarded as th...

Reisensanzōhi Monument

Ryosen is from Omi Sakata and is the only Japanese monk who engaged in the translation of Buddhist s...