Nagahama Railroad Square preserves the “First Nagahama Station Building,” the oldest station building still remaining in Japan.

The Hachiman Moat Tour allows you to take to the stunning Hachiman Moats in a Japanese-style boat.

Yanmar Marina is one of the few marinas found on the eastern bank of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan.

In Katsuno, a charming castle town in Takashima City, historic buildings can still be seen today.

The hotel also features a planetarium with digital surround technology.

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.

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

Kamo-jinja Shrine is also known for its famous water called “Isame no Shimizu.

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.

Our “Snow Appreciation Ships” set sail on Lake Biwa during the winter months.

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.

The vicinity of Otomegaike was known as the “Katori no Umi” during the seventh century Manyo period, and formed an inlet into Lake Biwa at the foot of the mountains.

The road once used by the Korean messengers traveling to Edo.

The statue of Eleven Faced Kannon located in the Doganji Temple Kannondo is said to be the greatest masterpiece in Japanese sculpting history, and the most beautiful from all seven of the Eleven Faced Kannon statues that are designated as National Treasures.

Azuchi castle ruins are a nationally designated Special Historic Site.

The former Kaigake Elementary School is a school building that stopped being used for teaching in 2001, and has since often been the setting for filming TV shows and movies.

One of the largest lake-based museums in Japan, with a wide variety of exhibits.

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.