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
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 Agricultural Park “Blumen Hugel Farm”
This agricultural park is centered around wide flower fields, rose and herb gardens and greenhouses.
Mt. Hiei Trekking “Honzaka Route”
The World Heritage site of Hieizan Enryakuji is a temple that you can visit while also enjoying a mountain-climbing trek.
Makino Sunny Beach Chinaihama Auto Campground
Popular as the spot with the most beautiful water in Okubiwako, and also a great spot to enjoy camping.
Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo Oiwake
Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo sells a full range of popular and delicious confections.
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.
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.
Aikyo-no-Mori
Aikyo-no-Mori (Aikyo Forest) is located amid a natural pine forest that spreads along the Shibukogawa River, a tributary of the Echigawa River.
Takeshima
Takeshima (“multiple scenery island”) received this name due to the vastly differing views it offers depending on the location of the observer.
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.
Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia) Avenue
Approximately 500 dawn redwoods (Metasequoia) form a beautiful avenue stretching over 2.
Okishima
Okishima island is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 1.
History & Culture in Summer
Nagahama Otemon Shopping Street
A shopping area representative of Nagahama.
Kamo-jinja Shrine (Famous Water Isame no Shimizu)
Kamo-jinja Shrine is also known for its famous water called “Isame no Shimizu.
Ojoyasuwake Yashiki
This is the house of the Suwa family, which in early modern times was the the ojoya (“village headman”).
Karasaki-jinja Shrine
Karasaki-jinja Shrine is dedicated to a god with a deep connection to Hiyoahita-taisha Shrine, and as featured in the “Night Rain at Karasaki,” one of the Eight Views of Omi, is also a place of exceptional beauty.
Kamo-jinja Shrine
Long ago, the vicinity of Kamo-jinja Shrine was used for horse racing and as a ranch for raising farm horses, and the shrine itself was established in 736 in order to protect the region.
Daitsuji Temple
Daitsuji Temple has been known by the nickname “Gobo-san” for hundreds of years.
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