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Otsu City Museum of History
Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.
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Mitsuhashi Setsuko Museum
A painter who lost her dominant arm to illness and went on painting left-handed until her death at 35.
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Hikone Castle Museum
The lord's palace rebuilt in timber to hold the Ii family's red-lacquered armour and its Noh masks and robes.
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Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
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Nagahama Hikiyama Museum
Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.
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Yasu Dotaku Museum
Where Japan's largest bronze bell was found - 134 cm tall - and where 24 were once buried together, for reasons still argued.
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Omi Merchant Museum
On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.
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Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
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Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.
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Nippon Electric Glass Otsu Plant
Nippon Electric Glass in Otsu. It carries out glass research and development.
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Ritsumeikan University BKC Robotics Research Base
Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu. A research base for robots and science and engineering.
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Shiga Prefecture Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute
The prefecture's Lake Biwa environmental science research center. It researches water quality and lakes.
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Shiga Prefecture Fisheries Experiment Station
The prefecture's fisheries experiment station. It researches the fisheries and aquaculture of Lake Biwa.
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Shiga Prefecture Forest Center
The prefecture's forest center. It researches the watershed forests of Lake Biwa and Japanese cedar and cypress.