Experience Shiga in Summer
Overview of Summer in Shiga
Explore Shiga's lush green mountains and glistening lakes during the summer.
Enjoy the best of the season with vibrant festivals, riverside fun, and water activities on Lake Biwa.
Summer Tours & Activities
Shiga Agricultural Park “Blumen Hugel Farm”
This agricultural park is centered around wide flower fields, rose and herb gardens and greenhouses.
Okudachuzaemongama Shigaraki-togeimura
At this historic ceramics maker, experience making something yourself, watch a master at work or do a little shopping.
Taka.Sta
A lodging facility located amid the abundant nature of Takashima City, Shiga.
Otsu & Takashima Local Farmhouse Visit & Lunch Cooking
Spend quality time with your family, friends or a special person at the tranquil lakeside which is a hidden gem away from all the main toursits hot spots of Japan.
Okubiwako Campground
Okubiwako Campground allows you to enjoy bass and other fishing, rental boats, bug catching and bathing in the lake.
Kawashima Shuzo Brewery
Kawashima Shuzo is a brewery with more than 140 years of history, seeking to always consider the health of their drinkers and provide authentic flavor.
Nature & Parks in Summer
Roadside Station Aguri Park Ryuo
The experience and exchange style agricultural park “Aguri Park Ryuo” is a facility where you can enjoy everything the outdoors has to offer, through “looking, picking and eating.
Otsu Lakeside Nagisa Park
Otsu Lakeside Nagisa Park is the name given to the park region that runs from Hamaotsu to Omi Ohashi.
Trail Adventure Ritto
Trail Adventure is a mountain bike activity facility that has something for everyone, from children to adults, beginners to experts alike.
Lake Nishinoko
At Lake Nishinoko you can experience the Water Channel Tour that feudal lord Nobunaga Oda and his court are said to have enjoyed so much.
Yamada Farm
A working dairy farm that has opened its doors to the public under the concept of “letting people see the truth about milk.
Suigo no Sato Maruyama
The Omi-Hachiman suigo canals are known as one of the three great canal networks of Japan, and are of particular note even among the three due to retaining their natural, historic state even today.
History & Culture in Summer
Tour Design Ichie Wado
Tour Design Ichie Wado specializes in a half-day "Otsu-e" folk art workshop & immersive local culture walk for foreign tourists in Otsu, Shiga. The workshop includes painting a Lucky Oni Bell on an earthenware bell. Alternatively, you could choose to paint the Three Wise Monkeys on a Japanese shikishi.
Higashiomi City Country Life Tourism
In Higashiomi you can experience housework, cooking, planting and harvesting.
Traditional Crafts Center of Shigaraki
The exterior and interior walls, and even the floors of the Crafts Center are lined with Shigaraki-yaki ceramic tiles.
Omi Jingu Shrine
Omi Jingu Shrine is a registered Cultural Property, and a representative example of the Showa period (1926 – 1989) shrine construction known as Omi construction or Showa construction.
Sagawa Art Museum
This luxurious space, also known as the “floating museum,” features three separate halls in which you can, at your leisure, take in the works of three of Japan’s greats; artist Ikuo Hirayama (1930-2009), sculptor Sato Churyo (1912-2011) and ceramics master Kichizaemon Raku.
Saikyo-ji Temple
Saikyo-ji Temple is the head of the Tendai Shinsei Sect, which has more than 450 branch temples across Japan.
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