Ichishirogama displays and retails koto-yaki pieces, slightly blue ceramics decorated with delicate images, as well as offering a pottery classroom.

This agricultural park is centered around wide flower fields, rose and herb gardens and greenhouses.

Take a tour around the school that was used as the setting for the popular anime “K-On!” There are also guided tours that allow you to see rooms and facilities that are not open to regular tours.

In Higashiomi you can experience housework, cooking, planting and harvesting.

Take a tour of a beer making plant.

Boat Race Biwako is located on the banks of Lake Biwa, and boasts awe-inspiring scenery even when compared to the other 23 boat race locations around Japan.

The Lake Biwa Flower Fountain is a large fountain located on a 180m breakwater in the Otsu Port offing, that sends out streams of 440m long water 40m high into the air (the equivalent of a 10 storey building).

Kamo-jinja Shrine is also known for its famous water called “Isame no Shimizu.

All across these areas you can see underground water from the Adogawa River and the Hira mountains bubbling up as fresh springs.

Okishima island is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 1.

The path along the Serikawa River Seawall is famous for its rows of Japanese elm trees that have stood for 400 years, and is also a famous spot for cherry blossoms in the spring.

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.

Daitsuji Temple has been known by the nickname “Gobo-san” for hundreds of years.

Established in 1984 on the ruins of Hoshu Amenomori’s old house, as a base for exploring the life of Hoshu Amenomori, his ideals and achievements and desire for friendly commerce in Eastern Asia.

The first museum in Japan devoted solely to figures.

Water drawn from the river flows around the village, rich in volume and pure in content as it links to the inner lake, supporting the people living in the region and allowing you to feel how closely related our lives are to this precious liquid.

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.

One of the largest lake-based museums in Japan, with a wide variety of exhibits.