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
Hieizan Driveway
Hieizan Driveway is a drive course 8.
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.
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.
Shiga Prefectural Kibogaoka Culture Park
Shiga Prefectural Kibogaoka Culture Park covers approximately 416 hectares and is divided into three zones; the culture zone, outdoor activities zone, and sports zone.
Roadside Station Kohoku Mizudori Station
Kohoku Mizudori Station is located inside a water bird park that is visited by a variety of wild birds throughout the year.
Hieizan Enryakuji Temple
Hieizan Enryakuji Temple, with its sprawling grounds across Mt.
Nature & Parks in Autumn
Chikubushima Island
This small island, with a circumference of just 2km, is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 6km from shore.
Cobbled Lanes
The “Ishitatami no Komichi” (Cobbled Lanes) is a commercial area that offers everything from shopping through to dining, preserving the historical scenery of Hachiman waterways while letting you experience what it must have been like to walk those streets in olden times.
BIWAKO VALLEY/BIWAKO TERACE
Biwako Terrace offers a sophisticated resort for adults and delivers soaring views looking out over the lake.
Iba Waterside Sightseeing
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.
Lake Biwa Flower Fountain
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).
Hieizan Driveway
Hieizan Driveway is a drive course 8.
History & Culture in Autumn
Ojoyasuwake Yashiki
This is the house of the Suwa family, which in early modern times was the the ojoya (“village headman”).
Nagahama Hachimangu Shrine
Nagahama Hachimangu Shrine boasts a history of more than a thousand years, enshrining the main god of Nagahama City and having been protected by Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the feudal lord of Nagahama Castle.
Kishitsu-jinja Shrine
The grave of one Shusui Kishitsu, a respected and cultured visitor from Korea more than 1,300 years ago, is located behind the main shrine here.
Chikubushima (Tsukubusuma-jinja Shrine)
The main shrine at Tsukubusuma-jinja Shrine is a National Treasure, decorated inside with elegant and gorgeous décor representative of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573 – 1603).
Jorakuji Temple
Jorakuji Temple is one the three mountains of Konan that are famous for their leaves in fall.
Kaiyodo Figure Museum Kurokabe
The first museum in Japan devoted solely to figures.
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