Three Reasons to Go to Okishima: · Floating on the placid waters of Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, Okishima is the only populated freshwater island in all of Japan. · The island is famous for ...

Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake, has long been a center of flourishing agriculture and cultural progress, but it's also been at the center of countless environmental crises.

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 ...

Lake Biwa, covering an area of 670 square kilometers, is famed for being Japan’s largest lake, and its proximity to the former capital of Kyoto means it has featured in art and literature since ...

OTSU, Japan -- The Lake Biwa Canal Cruise is a small sightseeing boat with a capacity of about 10 people. The craft makes a round trip on the waterway.

West Japan's Shiga Prefecture is home to Lake Biwa, the country's biggest lake, and all fifth-grade students board a ship for one night and two days t ...

Japan's western prefecture of Shiga is looking to attract patriotic Austrian tourists who may be interested in visiting Lake Biwa, given the revelation on social media that the spectacular body of ...

A government panel has proposed that some Lake Biwa canal facilities in western Japan be collectively designated as a national treasure. Five of the canal facilities, which were built to help ...

To understand how much we can help, there's a lesson to be learnt from people living around Japan's Lake Biwa. Using just their hands and some tools, local residents were able to bring the lake ...