Karasaki Shrine – An Ancient Lakeside Shrine Home to the Karasaki Pine 【Highlights】 ・Lakeside shrine grounds with views of Lake Biwa and Mount Omi Fuji. ・A celebrated scenic spot featured in the Eight Views of Omi as “Night Rain at…

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Ono Shrine – A Sacred Grove Where the Faith in Confectionery and Mochi Lives On 【Highlights】 ・The Main Hall enshrines Taganetsukioomi-no-Mikoto, revered as the ancestral deity of confectionery and mochi. ・The main halls of Ono no Takamura Shrine and Ono…

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Gichu-ji Temple – A Temple Connected to Kiso Yoshinaka and Matsuo Basho – 【Highlights】 ・A nationally designated Historic Site, home to the graves of Kiso Yoshinaka and Matsuo Basho. ・Stone monuments inscribed with haiku connected to Matsuo Basho, scattered throughout…

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Izu Shrine – The Heart-Shaped Sacred Stone of Good Fortune 【Highlights】 ・An ancient shrine reflecting the history of Katata, a town that prospered through Lake Biwa’s water transport. ・Katata’s main guardian shrine, known in the medieval period as “Katata Omiya.”…

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Shiga-in Monseki Temple – The Charm of a Monzeki Temple Remaining in Sakamoto 【Highlights】 ・Anoshu-style stone walls and white plaster walls lining the temple approach, characteristic of Sakamoto’s townscape. ・The dignified atmosphere of a Monzeki temple, once serving as the…

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Hiyoshi Toshogu Shrine – A Shrine in Sakamoto Tracing the Origins of Nikko Toshogu 【Highlights】 ・A splendid “Gongen-zukuri” shrine building, said to have served as the model for the reconstruction of Nikko Toshogu Shrine. ・Intricate decorative details remaining on the…

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Katsuragawa Sokusho Myoo-in Temple – A Sacred Mountain Temple Steeped in the History of Kaihogyo 【Highlights】 ・The Main Hall and Goma Hall, standing amid temple grounds surrounded by ancient cedars. ・A training hall associated with So-o Osho, said to have…

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The shrine is considered to have first been established in 669 by the order of Emperor Tenji. The shrine has been known ever since as one location like Karasaki Shrine as a designated location for Shinto purification rituals to ward…

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This shrine is linked to Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara no Tōda), who quelled Taira no Masakado’s rebellion. According to legend, during the Heian period, at the request of Otohime from the dragon palace at the bottom of the river beneath…

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Jodo-ji Temple is the birthplace and family temple of the Ōishi Family, famous for their involvement with the Chūshingura (story of the “Forty-seven Rōnin”). Within the shrine grounds are the graves of each generation of the Ōishi family, as well…

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A shrine with ties to the Honda clan, which produced several of the feudal lords of the Zeze Domain, it was built in 1883 by former Zeze Domain clansmen and other volunteers. The four deities enshrined here are Honda Tadatoshi,…

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Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine is estimated to have been constructed in the 4th year of the Hakuho period (645-710) in Zeze along the path of the former Tokaido road. It is said that Emperor Tenji once made an imperial visit to…

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