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Nagahama is located in northeastern Shiga Prefecture, and is a town where you can feel vitality of the waters rushing from the Ibuki mountains into the river flowing into Lake Biwa. It has a storied historical heritage that includes the subdued ruins of Nagahama Castle and Otani Castle from the Sengoku period, as well as Hogon-ji Temple, on Chikubu Island, and the Village of Kannon. It is famous not only for its delicious rice and local sake made from its blessed waters, but also for its lake fish simmered in soy sauce. The shop sells specialty products from Nagahama, such as fresh vegetables, local sake, rice, and rice crackers.
2020 marks 1,300 years since the Nihon Shoki was written in 720. In this commemorative year, as places symbolic of ritual and governance, Shimane Prefecture and Nara Prefecture will hold a joint exhibition with the Tokyo National Museum to look back on the formation and characteristics of ancient Japan.
[Exhibits on display]
National Treasure Seven-Branched Sword
Important Cultural Property Gamontai shinjukyo (mirror
with an image band decorated with gods and animals) & Sankakubuchi shinjukyo (triangular-rimmed mirrors decorated
with gods and animals)
Important Cultural Property Cylindrical haniwa clay images
Important Cultural Property Standing Jikokuten (one of the “Four Heavenly Kings”)
Important Cultural Property Engraved yakushi trinity
and more
