A “Sentoe” lantern festival is held in order to pray for wishes to be fulfilled.

Okubiwako Campground allows you to enjoy bass and other fishing, rental boats, bug catching and bathing in the lake.

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.

Experience making Mizuguki-yaki, at any time and open to all.

One of the longest-standing trout cultivation farms in Japan, established in 1878.

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.

Biwako Backroads offers a series of guided tours for inbound tourists, based out of Maibara Station in Shiga Prefecture.

A ski slope that also lets you look out over Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, from a mountain peak at 1,174m.

A working dairy farm that has opened its doors to the public under the concept of “letting people see the truth about milk.

The ruins of Omizo-jo Castle and the old castle town were reorganized by the powerful Wakebe clan, and the old waterworks and water channels that draw water from mountains and wells are still being used by residents today.

A path that appears to float in the air!

The Kusatsu City Aquatic Botanical Garden Mizunomori is a liberating botanical garden that features lakes spreading away in three directions.

The Kurokabe Square building was erected during the Meiji period (1868-1912) as a bank.

Genkyu-en Garden is a Daimyo (“feudal lord”) garden located to the north east of Hikone-jo Castle, created to resemble the Eight Views of Omi that in turn originate from the Eight Views of Lake Biwa and the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang, China.

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.

It is said that once, long ago, many celestial maidens descended from the heavens in the form of swans and played in the water on the southern bank of Lake Yogo.

The World Heritage site of Hieizan Enryakuji is a temple that you can visit while also enjoying a mountain-climbing trek.

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.