It is a monument standing on the site of the Otsu incident where Russian Tsesarevich Nicholas, Nikol...
The site is located to the southwest of the Omi Provincial Capital Ruins on a small hill ridge looki...
The provincial capital ruins are located to the east of the River Seta between Sandaiji and Oe 6-cho...
In 1975, an excavation survey was conducted, and two building ruins that were deemed to be the tower...
Burial mound number one is 46 meters in total length and 7 meters in height. It is a scallop-shaped ...
It is located on the edge of the eastern Katata Hill. This consists of more than 200 burial mounds a...
This burial mound was built on the hill ridge line in Suimei 1-Chome [Itchōme]. The mound was washed...
It is the monument of Matsuura Takeshiro, an explorer between the late Edo Period and the Meiji Era ...
It was built in the approach to Ishiyamadera Temple in March 1800 to cerebrate Kiuchi Sekitei’s 77th...
In 1893, when a writer, Shimazaki Toson, was 22 years old, he resigned from his teaching job due to ...
The Battle of Awazugahara took place between Kiso Yoshinaka and Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Awazu, Omi...
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...
Honjin is an accommodation facility for feudal lords and court nobles placed in post towns during th...
Kurumaishi Stones are cut granite on which ruts were engraved. They were laid for the approximately ...
It is the junction of the Hokkokukaido Road and Tokaido Road. Its name derives from the fact that th...
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...
This stone monument was built in the precinct of Honda Shrine in October 21, 1932 to praise the mart...
Imai Kanehira was a general in the late Heian Period [in the 12th century]. It is known that he loya...
The River Seta is the only river flowing from Lake Biwa, and the Seta no Karahashi Bridge over the r...
It is a keyhole-shaped burial mound located in Kokubu 1-chome [icchome] near the west bank of the Ri...
Yokooyama Burial Mounds were believed to have been built in the early 7th century at the end of the ...
These are the ruins of the abandoned Ano Temple. The temple ruins are one of the ruins related to Ot...
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...
In the 2nd year of the Jokyo Era (1685), Matsuo Bashō, who visited Otsu for the first time, fell in ...
Zeze Castle was built in the 6th year of Kecho era (1601), and is also nicknamed Sekiroku Castle. Ho...
There is a record that Prince Ōtomo (Tenji’s Imperial Prince) who was defeated by Emperor Tenj...
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...
This is a stone tower built at the west side from the former Tokaido in the Chōanji temple’s p...
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...
During the Azuchi-Momoyama period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi replaced the Sakamoto Castle and built the Ots...
The 4 th year of the Jisho era (1180), Emperor Go-Shirakawa’s prince, Mochihito and Minamoto n...
As you climb up the approach road leading from Yotsutsuji of the Kangakuin temple to Yamanote, a big...
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694 ) who loved the area of Omi, on the 15th day of the 4th year of the Genroku ...
Monument to commemorate the ruins “Ishiyama shell mound” from the early Jōmon period in ...
It was built in 1999 in a garden that reminisces the accomplishments of the scholar priest Rocho who...
When walking up the mountain way along Muyuen from Kannon’s carved stone monument’s plac...
Bronze statue of Murasaki Shikibu, whom is said to get inspiration for “The Tale of Genji̶...
Circular column with a height of 1.7 m, carved with the same contents as the “Basho Jiga Sangu...
It is standing right next to the scripture house, side by side with the haiku slab of Matsuo Basho, ...
The small shrine “Nasuyoichi Jizō” under the big slope (stone stairs) that leads to the ...
Located on the left side of the Bishamondo temple in front of the important cultural proprety Meido,...
The two Hōkyōin pagodas standing side by side in the northwest of the multi-storied pagodas are said...
The Hiramyojinyogo-seki Stone past the Shinosho and located in front of the Myooin is regarded as th...
The “Wollastonite” monument is exposed along the road at the quarry site just below the ...
Ryosen is from Omi Sakata and is the only Japanese monk who engaged in the translation of Buddhist s...