Our “Snow Appreciation Ships” set sail on Lake Biwa during the winter months.

A 54 hole course that spreads across a hilly region overlooking Lake Biwa and Mt. Hieizan.

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

Take a tour around the school that was used as the setting for the popular anime “K-On!” There are also guided tours that allow you to see rooms and facilities that are not open to regular tours.

Biwako Terrace offers a sophisticated resort for adults and delivers soaring views looking out over the lake.

The Sotoen climbing kiln, making Shigaraki-yaki ceramics, is one of the largest in Japan, and continues to run at maximum output.

Biwako Terrace offers a sophisticated resort for adults and delivers soaring views looking out over the lake.

The Nagahama Plum Tree Bonsai Exhibition started in 1952, and has now become the number one plum tree bonsai exhibition in Japan in terms of both history and scale, as well as a much beloved annual springtime tradition in Kansai.

Biwako Backroads offers a series of guided tours for inbound tourists, based out of Maibara Station in Shiga Prefecture.

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

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

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 first permanent installation hall has a theme of “archaeology,” allowing you to slip back in time to Omi during the Yayoi period (300 BC to 300 AD) and the Kofun period (300 to 538).

Mii-dera Temple is the head temple of the Tendaijimon Buddhist sect.

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.

A mountain village that is the source of the Ane-gawa River, flowing from Mt.

The ruins of Omizo-jo Castle and the old castle town were reorganized by the powerful Wakebe clan, and the old waterworks and water channels that draw water from mountains and wells are still being used by residents today.

Nagahama Hachimangu Shrine boasts a history of more than a thousand years, enshrining the main god of Nagahama City and having been protected by Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the feudal lord of Nagahama Castle.