ShigaMuseumsOtsu
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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ShigaMuseumsHikone
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.
ShigaMuseumsOmihachiman
Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
ShigaMuseumsNagahama
Nagahama Hikiyama Museum
Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.
ShigaMuseumsYasu
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.
ShigaMuseumsHigashiomi
Omi Merchant Museum
On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
ShigaMuseumsKusatsu
Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.