The Fire Festival, with a history of nearly 800 years, is a dramatic winter ritual held in Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture.

Eigenji Temple is the head temple of the Eigenji branch and one of the fifteen primary temples of the Rinzai and Obaku sects.

There is a legend that the deity worshipped at this shrine reached its current location by crossing Lake Biwa.

Shimoniikawa-jinja Shrine holds a regular spring festival in the form of the Omi Kenketo Festival, during which the Long Knife ritual takes place.

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

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

This temple has been responsible for the safety of travel on the waters of Lake Biwa since the Azuchi Momoyama period.

One of the most famous SAMURAI lord NOBUNAGA ODA.

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

A temple with more 1000 years of history, founded in the later Heian period (794-1185).