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Culture in Shiga

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Corn Festival

Corn Festival

Kim

Corn is a vital crop with immense importance as a food, feed, and fuel source. The Yatsugatake corn variant grows well in Jap...

Shiga
Hikone Castle in Shiga 7

Hikone Castle in Shiga

Lily

Hikone Castle in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, is a very famous original castle tower. It is registered as a National Treasu...

Shiga
Human and Animal

Human and Animal

Kim

A special exhibition at the Shiga Prefectural Ceramics Forest looks at humans and animals as depicted by 5 ceramic artists: B...

Shiga
Amazing Hieizan

Amazing Hieizan

Arlene Bastion

Hieizan, the home of the awesome Enryakuji, with its immense, luxurious forests, emanates its own sacred and spiritual feelin...

Shiga
Muddled in Miidera

Muddled in Miidera

Arlene Bastion

Getting to and around Miidera is a bit puzzling. But persevere. The temples are embedded in verdant forests, and emanate a s...

Shiga
Blessed Biwa

Blessed Biwa

Arlene Bastion

Lake Biwa holds more than beauty. It also brings blessings as an object of worship according to both the Shinto and Buddhist ...

Shiga