From June 2 to late Oct. 2009, Nagahama will host about 7,500 fifth graders from 147 elementary schools in Shiga for rowing lessons…
禁煙 From June 1, 2009, smoking on the streets in and around Kurokabe Square in Nagahama is banned. Smoking is banned along the…
Yogo town, home of Lake Yogo in northern Shiga, held an unusual festival called the Chawan Matsuri or Teacup Festival. It’s been 6…
On March 3, 2009, the six northern Shiga towns of Torahime, Kohoku, Takatsuki, Kinomoto, Yogo, and Nishi-Azai (虎姫、湖北、高月、木之本、余呉、西浅井) signed a letter of agreement (協定書に調印) to…
Japan’s largest kawau cormorant colony is found in Lake Biwa. These birds are flying off from Shiga and spreading over a wide area.…
NHK TV Otsu reported that from April 2009, Shiga will restart the culling of cormorant birds called kawau. They found that the kawau population…
On Aug. 25, 2008, I went to see the Ennichi festival along Jizo-zaka road in Kinomoto, Nagahama. Nice sunny day and lots of…
I created a Web page introducing Torahime-cho in English: https://photoguide.jp/txt/Torahime-cho,_Shiga Photos: https://photoguide.jp/pix/index.php?cat=178 Update: Torahime merged with Nagahama in 2010.