14 Autumn Color at Kongorinji Cathy Cawood Enter Kongorinji in Shiga via a path that runs from the road to the pond garden between stone walls almost covered with thick ..
9 Visiting Miho Museum Cathy Cawood Miho Museum in the hills of Shiga Prefecture is a beautiful building, but it totally upstages the art exhibited there.
Culture A Beautiful Cycle Tour in Shiga Suwannee Payne If you‘re looking for a place to cycle tour in Japan, there is one place I would like to recommend. Omihachiman, a little town..
15 Kusatsu Honjin Juku Cathy Cawood A wonderfully preserved lodge which was a rest stop tor nobility, including the Meiji Emperor, traveling along Tokaido and Nakasendo..
12 Culture Pottery Kilns at Shigaraki Cathy Cawood See climbing kilns at Shigaraki, a town that has produced pottery for thousands of years, and is one of the 'Six Old Kilns of..
12 Culture Tachiki-Kannon Temple in Shiga Cathy Cawood Tachiki-Kannon Temple in Shiga Prefecture: stone lanterns, statue of Buddhist monk Kobo Daishi riding a deer, and many, many, many..
Beauty & Spa Three Days in Kyoto & Shiga (day 1) Joe Peters This article describes day one of three spent in Kyoto and includes some sites and lodging information, such as the Biwako Hanakaido..