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Shiga · Japan
In the destination Hikone and Lake Biwa.
In the photo: Hachiman-bori canal among Omihachiman’s historic buildings.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Old merchant town on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa, Omihachiman has the Hachiman-bori canal with white-walled storehouses, the merchant houses of Omi, the Himure Hachimangu shrine and Mount Hachiman, accessible by ropeway. Azuchi, now part of the city, preserves the ruins of Nobunaga’s castle.
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The local experience
16th-century canal that connected Lake Biwa to Omihachiman’s center, lined with white-walled storehouses and willows, beside the preserved Omi merchants’ quarter and Himure Hachimangu shrine.
A 271-meter hill in central Omihachiman, reached by ropeway, with the ruins of Toyotomi Hidetsugu’s castle, Zuiryu-ji temple and views of Lake Biwa, the canal and the Omi plain.
Ruins of Oda Nobunaga’s castle, built between 1576 and 1579 on Mount Azuchi and destroyed in 1582, featuring a large stone stairway, walls and the tower’s foundations; designated a Special Historic Site of Japan.
Beyond the guide
