Trip Ideas

Eat Your Way Across Nagahama

Eat Your Way Across Nagahama

Day 1

Spot No. 1 JR Nagahama Station

  • 5 min on foot

Spot No. 2 Kurokabe Square

The Kurokabe Square building was erected during the Meiji period (1868-1912) as a bank. It is currently used as a gallery for glassware, displaying and selling such items as glass accessories and music boxes. They also offer hands-on lessons that include making glass accessories and stained glass.
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Kurokabe Square
  • Immediately Accessible on foot

Spot No. 3 Nagahama Otemon Shopping Street

A shopping area representative of Nagahama. The street features sightseeing facilities, such as the Kurokabe Museum and the Kaiyodo Figure Museum, and is also lined with restaurants and cafés offering regional dishes, attracting a wide range of people from children through to the elderly.

Nagahama Otemon Shopping Street
  • 5 min on foot

Spot No. 4 Daitsuji Temple Omotesando

Daitsuji Temple Omotesando developed as the temple town for Daitsuji Temple. Enjoy a stroll through the historic townscape.

Daitsuji Temple Omotesando
  • Immediately Accessible on foot

Spot No. 5 Daitsuji Temple

Daitsuji Temple has been known by the nickname “Gobo-san” for hundreds of years. Many of the temple buildings are designated as Cultural Properties, and simply stepping through the gates is like being transported back to the world of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573 – 1603). You can freely walk around everywhere up to the main temple.

【Admission fee 500yen】

Daitsuji Temple
  • 12 min on foot

Spot No. 6 Nagahama Castle History Museum

Nagahama Castle was abandoned during the start of the Edo Period (1603 – 1868), the remains transferred to Hikone Castle and Daitsuji Temple, leaving only a stone wall and well behind. Then, in 1983 the castle was reconstructed based on its appearance during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573 – 1603), with the interior featuring a history museum. The Nagahama Castle History Museum displays materials relating to feudal lord Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Nagahama, while the observation deck on the fifth floor gives a wonderful view out across the north of the lake.

Nagahama Castle History Museum
  • 16 min on foot

Spot No. 7 JR Nagahama Station

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