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.

Climb the stone steps and a glorious three storey stone tower comes into view.

Experience making Mizuguki-yaki, at any time and open to all.

Offers a wide and rich range of restaurants.

William Merrell Vories is the most famous former resident of Omi-Hachiman City and the founder of the Omi Brotherhood company, and the house in which he lived with his wife Makiko is now operated as the Vories Memorial Hall.

With more than 120 years in business, Kanekichi Yamamoto offers not only more traditional beef dishes, such as syukiyaki, shabushabu, steak and yakiniku, but also Omi beef cooked in miso paste, Japanese beef curry and original processed foods.

An old house that has accepted just one booking per day since 1979.

A restaurant offering traditional Japanese dishes and sushi.

The Hachiman-bori Canal was a mainstay in regional economics and transportation until the start of the Showa period (1926 – 1989).

The “Ishitatami no Komichi” (Cobbled Lanes) is a commercial area that offers everything from shopping through to dining, preserving the historical scenery of Hachiman waterways while letting you experience what it must have been like to walk those streets in olden times.

Experience hand-making accessories using precious rare wood beads.

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

Long ago, the vicinity of Kamo-jinja Shrine was used for horse racing and as a ranch for raising farm horses, and the shrine itself was established in 736 in order to protect the region.

Experience the traditional art of “kembu,” literally meaning “sword dance.

It is said that the beginnings of tea in Japan date back to 805, when the monk Saicho returned from China with a handful of tea seeds and planted them in Otsu, Shiga, propagating the first tea tree on Japanese shores.