Year round, Mt Hakodate’s Kokia Park in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, offers wonderful views of Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest freshwater lake, from an elevation of 680 meters. Now, in the autumn, that ...
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A group of university students who went kayaking on Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture all returned safely to shore late Monday, after being reported missing earlier in the evening, with three of their ...
Camping tents are seen at Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture. Biwa is Japan's largest lake and a popular leisure spot in summer. Learn how to buy a home in Japan, including property buying procedures, ...
OTSU, (Japan): About 10,000 fireworks lit up the summer night sky during the Lake Biwa Great Fireworks Festival at Otsu Port in the city of Otsu on Friday (Aug 8). Organisers said about 340,000 people ...
LAKE BIWA, Japan -- For one Japanese tourist spot trying to survive the pandemic-related, the mantra has become paint it blue. Blue has become all the rage in the castle city of Nagahama on the shores ...