More than 2,000 lanterns create an illusory and ethereal world inside the temple grounds.

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

Allows you to enjoy the outdoors any time of year, with cottages, a restaurant, a ski slope and campsite.

Aikyo-no-Mori (Aikyo Forest) is located amid a natural pine forest that spreads along the Shibukogawa River, a tributary of the Echigawa River.

A refurbished old house that lets you experience authentic soba noodle making for yourself.

The Otsu Festival has been held since the start of the Edo period (1603 – 1868), and is a designated Intangible Folk Culture Property of the prefecture.

An English garden located in Maibara.

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).

Discover hidden stories of northern Lake Biwa through guided walks, local legends, temple culture, and quiet lakeside landscapes.

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.

The wide grounds of the Fisheries Center includes a number of ponds, providing plenty of opportunities to get close to the water and the fish swimming in it.

The Metasequoia Avenue is lined with approximately 500 metasequoia trees, forming a stunning 2.

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

More than 2,000 lanterns create an illusory and ethereal world inside the temple grounds.

The Old Tokaido Road was completed during the Edo period (1603 – 1868), and is one of the five old roads that connected Nihonbashi in Edo with Sanjo in Kyoto.

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.

There is a legend that the deity worshipped at this shrine reached its current location by crossing Lake Biwa.

A style of garden that features a path around a pond.