A style of garden that features a path around a pond.

Keiunkan is a state guest house that was built by a wealthy merchant in Nagahama for visits from the Emperor Meiji during the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Famous for a ceremony that involves jumping into the water from poles sticking out from Lake Biwa.

Nagahama Castle was abandoned during the start of the Edo Period (1603 – 1868), the remains transferred to Hikone Castle and Daitsuji Temple, leaving only a stone wall and well behind.

Kinomoto-Jizoin is a Jishu sect temple that houses a Buddhist statue worshipped for healing eye diseases.

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

“Toiyaba” were lodging stations along the roadside during the Edo period (1603 – 1868), providing manpower and horses to Daimyo lords and other important people using the roads and handling the transport of goods.

The first museum in Japan devoted solely to figures.

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

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).