滋賀県 · Shrines & temples
Eigenji
東近江市 湖東
It stands in the gorge of the Echi river, and is famous for autumn colour.
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Rakuyaji
甲賀市 湖南
It holds the largest seated eleven-headed Kannon in Japan.
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Aburahi Jinja
甲賀市 湖南
Its group of halls is an Important Cultural Property, and it is often used as a location for period drama.
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Shanain
長浜市 湖北
It was the administrative temple of Nagahama Hachimangu. Famous for its hibiscus.
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Doganji
長浜市 湖北
A National Treasure eleven-headed Kannon, rated among the finest in the history of Japanese sculpture.
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Yogoko
長浜市 湖北
Held to be the site of the oldest feather robe legend in Japan.
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Kochu Otorii
高島市 湖西
A vermilion torii standing out in the lake. People come without fail to photograph it at sunrise.
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Taga Oku Shoin
多賀町 湖東
Its Momoyama-period garden is a Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Ono Jinja
栗東市 湖南
Its gate is an Important Cultural Property.
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Shimonikawa Jinja
守山市 湖南
A rite survives here that carries the origin of funazushi.
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Hikone-jo
彦根市 湖東
A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. It is at its finest seen from Genkyuen below.
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Sennichi Kaihogyo
大津市 湖南
About 40,000 kilometres walked over seven years. The rule was that anyone who stopped partway was to take his own life.
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Lake Biwa
大津市ほか 湖南
The largest lake in Japan, taking up a sixth of the prefecture. An ancient lake, four million years old.
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Genkyuen
彦根市 湖東
The daimyo garden of Hikone Castle. The keep is seen across the pond.
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Hachimanbori
近江八幡市 湖東
A canal that joined Lake Biwa to the castle town. White-walled merchant storehouses line it.
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Kurokabe Square
長浜市 湖北
Built around a black-plastered former bank, the district was reborn as a town of glass.
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Shigaraki
甲賀市 湖南
One of the six ancient kilns of Japan. Tanuki figures, and the remains of climbing kilns.
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Metasequoia Avenue
高島市 湖西
Five hundred trees along 2.4 kilometres. The colour changes completely with the seasons.
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Biwako Valley
大津市 湖南
Looking down on Lake Biwa from 1,100 metres.
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Nagahama Hikiyama
長浜市 湖北
Children perform kabuki on the stage of the floats. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Omi Beef
近江八幡市 湖東
Held to be the oldest wagyu brand in Japan. The Hikone domain presented it to the shogun, cured in miso.
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Miho Museum
甲賀市 湖南
Designed by I. M. Pei. It appears at the far end of a tunnel and a suspension bridge.
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Shiga Museum of Art
大津市 湖南
The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.
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MIHO MUSEUM
甲賀市 湖南
By I.M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid: a tunnel bored through a mountain and a suspension bridge, modelled on a Chinese vision of paradise.
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