Autumn festivals and foliage November 2018 in Shiga Prefecture

Recommended festivals (matsuri), events, exhibitions, and fall leaves in Shiga Prefecture in November–December 2018. (Most official Web sites are in Japanese only.) Compiled…

10th anniversary of shiga-ken.com

We are marking the 10th anniversary of shiga-ken.com in 2015. It was 10 years ago in February 2005 when I first registered the…

Introducing Shiga Headlines on Twitter

Happy to announce that I’ve finally opened a Twitter account for shiga-ken.com. It’s called Shiga Headlines and anybody can read my tweets (Twitter…

Happy New Year 2013!

Cherry blossoms in Shiga

Sorry, this post has been replaced by a newer blog post here: Shiga’s Top Cherry Blossom Spots.

Merry Christmas 2011!

I took this photo inside a department store in Kyoto. It happened to include the three words I live by. Merry Christmas!

Home page revamped

The home page at shiga-ken.com has been revamped to be an online portal to Shiga Prefecture. I used to have a long list…

New look at Shiga News

Shiga News has been modernized with a new look and feel. The banner images (all Shiga photos) rotate each time you access Shiga…
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