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 -- 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 ...

Along the northern shores of Lake Biwa is a lane of roughly 800 cherry trees that stretches for about 4 kilometers. The spectacular sakuras along the rugged coastline of Kaizu Ōsaki—known as ...

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 ...

The century-old Takashima castle on Lake Suwa is considered one of Japan’s top three lake castles, along with Zeze Castle on Lake Biwa (Shiga Prefecture) and Matsue Castle on Lake Shinji (Shimane ...