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

Founded in 1831, Fujii Honke uses water from the Echigawa River and locally produced rice to brew their sake.

Ichishirogama displays and retails koto-yaki pieces, slightly blue ceramics decorated with delicate images, as well as offering a pottery classroom.

Hieizan Enryakuji Temple, with its sprawling grounds across Mt.

A great place to enjoy some shopping, with tableware, vases, sundry items, glass goods and gardening products all on offers, centered around the historical Shigaraki-yaki ceramics of Japan.

One of the longest-standing trout cultivation farms in Japan, established in 1878.

From July through August sees a veritable carpet of over 10,000 sunflowers in bloom.

The Omi-Hachiman boat tour allows you to enjoy a different, natural world while riding a boat under the skillful control of a traditional boast master.

Aikyo-no-Mori (Aikyo Forest) is located amid a natural pine forest that spreads along the Shibukogawa River, a tributary of the Echigawa River.

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

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.

Okishima island is located in the offing of Lake Biwa, approximately 1.

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.

Ishiyamadera is the 13th location on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage of 33 Buddhist Temples.

Haku-unkan (former Hachian Higashi School) is a school building that was erected in 1877, fusing Western construction with traditional Japanese techniques.

Azuchi castle ruins are a nationally designated Special Historic Site.

The former Kaigake Elementary School is a school building that stopped being used for teaching in 2001, and has since often been the setting for filming TV shows and movies.

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