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JNTO Website | Find a Location | Shiga | Omi Hachiman (349 words) |
 | Omi Hachiman that extends itself at the foot of Mt. Hachiman-yama in the central part of Shiga is a castle town of Hachiman-yama Castle built in 1585 on the eastern shore of the largest lake in Japan, Lake Biwa-ko, and is a base town for Omi shonin, or Omi merchants. |
| The streets with a stretch of fl mortar and lattice windows, as well as Hachiman-bori area that was the hub of marine transportation, are designated as a national important preservation districts for groups of historic building. |
| Until the mid 19th century the town of Omi Hachiman was divided by Hachiman-bori, north of which was a residential area for the warriors and south for the townsfolk. |
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Nagano Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (237 words) |
| Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano, and was divided among many local daimyo during the Sengoku period. |
| Nagano was host to the 1998 Winter Olympics, which gained the prefecture international recognition as well as gaining the prefecture a Shinkansen line to Tokyo. |
| Nagano is also the prefecture which is bordered by the highest number of other prefectures in Japan and it contains the location which is the furthest point from the ocean anywhere in Japan. |
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