A verdant green cultural park with a “ceramics” theme, located in the town of ceramics Shigaraki.

This agricultural park is centered around wide flower fields, rose and herb gardens and greenhouses.

Holds a variety of events depending on the season, allowing an exciting slice of Japanese culture to be experienced.

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.

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

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.

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.

Zeze Castle was completed by Ieyasu Tokugawa in the year following his historic victory at the great battle of Sekigahara, and was a beautiful castle that used water from the lake to create natural moats around it.

Nagara Park is famous for its cherry blossoms in spring.

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.