About 15km north of Nagisa Park in Otsu City (see the previous post), on the eastern shore near the narrowest … Read more
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On this page, we will post everything interesting, beautiful, cool, exciting, yummy and fun we found around Lake Biwa!
Got tired with concrete jungles in Osaka and tourist-packed streets in Kyoto? Away from the hectic atmosphere … Read more
Autumn has deepened around Lake Biwa. The trees are now ablaze with beautiful scarlet, orange and yellow. Alon … Read more
(Continued from the previous post) With most of its land being hilly and forest, Oki-shima boasts rich wildlif … Read more
Early and mid-September is the time of harvest here in Ogi. Terraced paddies are covered with a wavy golden bl … Read more
Terraced paddy fields in Ogi, which appeared as glittering ponds this spring, are now covered with a brilliant … Read more
Centred by the country’s largest freshwater lake and surrounded by 1,000-metre mountains, Shiga Prefecture is … Read more
The memorial first post is about terraced rice fields around Ogi! Ogi is a farming village nestled on the east … Read more