This past summer, I rented a bicycle at Omi-Maiko and went cycling along the beach toward Hira Station. There was a nice bicycle…
Looks like Hikone Castle will be one of the major snow sculptures at next year’s Sapporo Snow Festival in Feb. It will be…
I’m checking all the official Web sites for all of Shiga’s cities and towns. A few towns have English pages. Taga-cho has English…
I think Azuchi-cho is the town with the best official English pages in Shiga. http://www.town.azuchi.shiga.jp/en/It’s not complete yet, but their introduction of sightseeing…
I found out that there is a Shiga Kenjinkai in Tokyo and other places. So today, I called the Kenjinkai office in Tokyo…
A hot debate still continues over the shinkansen train station in Ritto. It is the hottest topic in the Shiga community in mixi,…
After Otsu, Hikone is Shiga’s second most famous city. Hikone Castle is one of only four castle towers (tenshukaku) in Japan which are…
Did you know that Kyoto Shimbun has a collection of English articles? Most of them are about Kyoto, but there are some about…