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.

Proactively accepts educational tours, study tours and other groups of visitors.

Allows groups to experience a variety of activities, including making things and outdoor experiences such as water sports on Lake Biwa.

Tour Design Ichie Wado specializes in a half-day “Otsu-e” folk art workshop & immersive local culture walk for foreign tourists in Otsu, Shiga.

A museum all about hachiman-kawara tiles and the history of Hachiman.

A great place to enjoy some shopping, with tableware, vases, sundry items, glass goods and gardening products all on offers, centered around the historical Shigaraki-yaki ceramics of Japan.

Aito Marguerite Station, always bustling with visitors, functions as a rest spot for travelers on the road and a base for imparting information about the local region.

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.

Hieizan Driveway is a drive course 8.

The Kusatsu City Aquatic Botanical Garden Mizunomori is a liberating botanical garden that features lakes spreading away in three directions.

The large and extremely beautiful gardens that spread to the south of Enmanin-shinden Temple are a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site, and a visit is especially recommended during the changing of the leaves in fall.

The Nagahama Plum Tree Bonsai Exhibition started in 1952, and has now become the number one plum tree bonsai exhibition in Japan in terms of both history and scale, as well as a much beloved annual springtime tradition in Kansai.

Azuchi castle ruins are a nationally designated Special Historic Site.

The ruins of Omizo-jo Castle and the old castle town were reorganized by the powerful Wakebe clan, and the old waterworks and water channels that draw water from mountains and wells are still being used by residents today.

The first permanent installation hall has a theme of “archaeology,” allowing you to slip back in time to Omi during the Yayoi period (300 BC to 300 AD) and the Kofun period (300 to 538).

This small island, with a circumference of just 2km, is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 6km from shore.

This is the house of the Suwa family, which in early modern times was the the ojoya (“village headman”).

The main temple at Saimyoji Temple is one of the three Koto Sanzan temples of the Tendai Sect.