Here you can take photos with the giant Shigaraki tanuki, dine at our restaurant, make pottery, enjoy confectionery, purchase Shigaraki-yaki pottery, and observe a climbing kiln.

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.

A museum all about hachiman-kawara tiles and the history of Hachiman.

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

A great place to enjoy some shopping, with tableware, vases, sundry items, glass goods and gardening products all on offers, centered around the historical Shigaraki-yaki ceramics of Japan.

With its connection to the opening poem of the famous collection known as the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, Omi Jingu Shrine plays host to the “Karuta Opening Ceremony,” based in the Japanese card game.

From January to February you can see 12,000 early blossoming “Kanzaki Hanana” rape flowers.

Biwako Terrace offers a sophisticated resort for adults and delivers soaring views looking out over the lake.

Okuhiei Driveway is a drive course 11.

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).

Shizugatake has views over Okubiwako and Chikubushima to the north and south, Mt.

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

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.

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.

The “Evening bell at Mii-dera Temple” is famous for being one of the Three Bells of Japan, and also as one of The Eight Views of Omi.

Today there is almost nothing to see of the remains of Sakamoto Castle, with just a monument standing solemnly, alone.

The old townscape is especially well preserved in the vicinity of the Shinmachi area, and is a designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.

This is the house of the Suwa family, which in early modern times was the the ojoya (“village headman”).