Japan’s largest kawau cormorant colony is found in Lake Biwa. These birds are flying off from Shiga and spreading over a wide area. Kawau cormorants from Lake Biwa have been… Read more
NHK TV Otsu reported that from April 2009, Shiga will restart the culling of cormorant birds called kawau. They found that the kawau population in Shiga has almost doubled since last… Read more
On Aug. 25, 2008, I went to see the Ennichi festival along Jizo-zaka road in Kinomoto, Nagahama. Nice sunny day and lots of people and food stalls along the road… Read more
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. Read more
A major update for my Takatsuki-cho page: https://photoguide.jp/txt/Takatsuki-cho,_Shiga You can see that I visited Amenomori Hoshu-an museum. If you are interested in Japan-Korean relations, visit this museum. Nishino Water Tunnel… Read more
I recently visited Hayazaki Naiko Biotope 早崎内湖ビオトープ in Nagahama and talked with a local NPO taking care of it. Hayazaki (Hayasaki) Naiko was a small lake or lagoon north of… Read more
*On June 5, 2008, the Ministry of the Environment announced Japan’s 100 Best Spring Waters of the Heisei Era (平成の名水百選) and four of them are in Shiga Prefecture including one… Read more
On March 31, 2008, the Ando House 北国街道 安藤家, a Japanese-style house built in 1905, was closed in central Nagahama. The house was rented from the Ando family by the… Read more