Experience Shiga in Summer
Overview of Summer in Shiga
Explore Shiga's lush green mountains and glistening lakes during the summer.
Enjoy the best of the season with vibrant festivals, riverside fun, and water activities on Lake Biwa.
Summer Tours & Activities
Omi Jingu Shrine
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.
Roadside Station Toju-no-sato Adogawa
The folding fan gallery allows you to experience painting onto a folding fan to create your own original fan.
Taka.Sta
A lodging facility located amid the abundant nature of Takashima City, Shiga.
Nagahama & Kita-Biwako Great Fireworks
More than 10,000 fireworks, focused in the always impressive star mines, beautifully illuminate both the summer sky and the stunning Lake Biwa.
Toyosato Elementary School Old School Buildings
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.
Koka Ninja Village
In the wide grounds of this village in Koka, origin of the ninja, you can find a museum dedicated to ninja techniques, a house full of ninja traps and secret panels, “water spider” water crossing devices and a shuriken throwing star dojo.
Nature & Parks in Summer
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.
Okuhiei Driveway
Okuhiei Driveway is a drive course 11.
Biwako Otsukan
The Biwako Otsukan was built in 1934 as the first international tourism hotel in the prefecture, with the intention of bringing in more tourists from overseas.
English Garden Rosa & Berry Tawada
An English garden located in Maibara.
Okubiwako Parkway
The 18.
Nakasendo Road Samegaijuku (Jyuousui, Jizokawa River)
Jizokawa River is comprised of pure spring water such as Isame no Shimizu, and is famous for the extremely rare water buttercups that grow in the river.
History & Culture in Summer
Jorakuji Temple
Jorakuji Temple is one the three mountains of Konan that are famous for their leaves in fall.
Ishiyama-dera Temple
Ishiyamadera is the 13th location on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage of 33 Buddhist Temples.
Kurokabe Square
The Kurokabe Square building was erected during the Meiji period (1868-1912) as a bank.
Daitsuji Temple
Daitsuji Temple has been known by the nickname “Gobo-san” for hundreds of years.
Samegai Inn Museum (Toiyaba)
“Toiyaba” were lodging stations along the roadside during the Edo period (1603 – 1868), providing manpower and horses to Daimyo lords and other important people using the roads and handling the transport of goods.
Yumekyobashi Castle Road
Yumekyobashi Castle Road starts immediately from the bridge that crosses the moat at Hikone-jo Castle, and is designed to evoke the townscape of the Edo period (1603 – 1868).
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