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.

Trail Adventure is a mountain bike activity facility that has something for everyone, from children to adults, beginners to experts alike.

Shinki Bus Tours LIMON provide easily accessible, fun bus trips.

The Omi-Jofu Traditional Crafts Center operates as a base for providing information on the traditional Shiga industries of hemp and Omi-Jofu cloth.

The Ota family can trace their family tree back to one Dokan Ota, a samurai and Buddhist monk from the 15th century.

The Lake Biwa Tour departs from Nagahama and tours Lake Biwa in an amphibious bus.

This small island, with a circumference of just 2km, is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 6km from shore.

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.

Hokoen Garden was created in 1909 on the ruins of Nagahama-jo Castle, which was abandoned in the start of the Edo period (1603 – 1868).

Facilities based in the Kohoku water bird park, the largest habitat for wild birds in the prefecture.

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.

The large and extremely beautiful gardens that spread to the south of Enmanin-shinden Temple are a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site, and a visit is especially recommended during the changing of the leaves in fall.

Tarobogu Shrine is located about halfway up the 350m high Mt.

The principle object of worship here is a Buddhist image, normally withheld from public view, of Hobashira Kannon.

The main hall of Zensuiji Temple is a designated National Treasure, and one of the three Konan Sanzan temples.

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

The Hachiman-bori Canal was a mainstay in regional economics and transportation until the start of the Showa period (1926 – 1989).

The grounds of Tachiki-kannon Temple are located up a flight of 800 steep stone steps.