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 Lake Biwa Canal was created during the Meiji period (1868-1912) for the purposes of irrigation, transportation, power generation and the supply of drinking water to Kyoto from Lake Biwa.

Seta no Karahashi Bridge is one of the Three Famous Bridges of Japan, and has also been immortalized in “Evening Glow at Seta,” one of the Eight Views of Omi.

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.