During my New Year’s vacation, I visited many places in Shiga. See the photos here: Lake Biwa Rowing Lesson Hikone Castle Parade JRA…
During New Year’s vacation, I visited Gokasho again. My second time. This time, I took many pictures with my digital camera. The pretty…
I finally visited the JRA Ritto Training Center on Sunday. It was very interesting. I highly recommend this free tour, especially if you…
I visited Ishida Mitsunari’s birthplace in Ishida, Nagahama. There are a few monuments and a shrine dedicated to him. I didn’t have time…
Hisashi-buri I went to Kinomoto. They have a nice, spanking-new train station which opened at the same time as Nagahama’s station in Oct.…
I finally visited Ryuo-cho for the first time during New Year’s vacation. It’s easy to forget about Ryuo because it has no train…
Chronology of Shiga Prefecture’s news bits for January-December 2006. Compiled by Philbert Ono. January 1, 2006: Notogawa-cho and Gamo-cho towns merge with Higashi-Omi.…
My friend Kenkichi Yagi, who lives in Otsu, wrote an interesting story about his sailing trip around Lake Biwa in 1966. He went…