Experience Shiga in Autumn
Overview of Autumn in Shiga
Shiga is spectacular in autumn, coming alive with vibrant foliage and bountiful harvests.
Experience the best of the season by strolling along the lakeside, hiking mountain paths, and savoring delicious local cuisine.
Autumn Tours & Activities
Kanou Shoujuan Sunai no Sato
Experience making Japanese confections for yourself while observing a master at work, and then eat your handiwork with some tea after you are finished.
Koka City Rural Life Experiences
Koka City offers a “Rural Life Experiences in the Ninja’s Hometown, Koka”(home stay program), to experience real rural life for junior and senior high school excursions.
Ishiyama-dera Temple Fall Moon Festival
More than 2,000 lanterns create an illusory and ethereal world inside the temple grounds.
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.
Discovery JAPAN in Lake Biwa Tour
The Lake Biwa Tour departs from Nagahama and tours Lake Biwa in an amphibious bus.
Omi-Hino Rural Life Experiences
Proactively accepts educational tours, study tours and other groups of visitors.
Nature & Parks in Autumn
Hokoen Garden
Hokoen Garden was created in 1909 on the ruins of Nagahama-jo Castle, which was abandoned in the start of the Edo period (1603 – 1868).
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
A verdant green cultural park with a “ceramics” theme, located in the town of ceramics Shigaraki.
Okuhiei Driveway
Okuhiei Driveway is a drive course 11.
Chikubushima Island
This small island, with a circumference of just 2km, is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 6km from shore.
Yanmar Marina
Yanmar Marina is one of the few marinas found on the eastern bank of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan.
Aikyo-no-Mori
Aikyo-no-Mori (Aikyo Forest) is located amid a natural pine forest that spreads along the Shibukogawa River, a tributary of the Echigawa River.
History & Culture in Autumn
Korean Messengers’ Road
The road once used by the Korean messengers traveling to Edo.
Hikone Castle
Hikone Castle is a National Treasure and counted among the greatest castles in the world.
Azuchi Castle Ruins
Azuchi castle ruins are a nationally designated Special Historic Site.
Higashikusano Mountain Village Sightseeing
A mountain village that is the source of the Ane-gawa River, flowing from Mt.
Hino Machikado Kanno (former Genzo Shuno Drugstore)
Indicated by a large sign outside, the interior of the former Genzo Shuno Drugstore displays materials relating to the pharmaceutical industry in Hino-cho and a Hino Town Tourist Association office, providing information to tourists visiting the town.
Former Hikone Domain Matsubara Suburban Residence Gardens (Ohama Goten)
A style of garden that features a path around a pond.
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