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Shiga Travel Guide

Everything for your trip to Shiga in one place: culture experiences, events & festivals, cherry blossoms, autumn leaves, fireworks. Open any page for access, highlights and typical dates.

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Culture experiences

👘 Culture experiences

🛕 6 places

Shukubo (Temple Lodging) Experience

Tohoku ・ Chubu & Hokuriku ・ Kansai

A shukubo is lodging for pilgrims visiting a temple or shrine, where you can savor shojin ryori (Buddhist vegetarian cuisine), join the morning service and experience a day in a place of prayer. You can stay in long-standing centers of faith such as Koyasan in Wakayama, Mt. Hiei in Shiga, Zenkoji and Togakushi in Nagano, and Mt. Haguro of the Dewa Sanzan in Yamagata.

Events

🎎 Events & festivals

Cherry blossoms

🌸 Cherry blossoms

Autumn leaves

🍁 Autumn leaves

Temple

Eigenji Temple

Kansai ・ Higashiomi, Shiga

🍁 Typical peak: Early Nov – Late Nov

✦ Illumination
Fireworks

🎆 Fireworks

🎆 August

Lake Biwa Fireworks Festival

Kansai ・ Otsu, Shiga

🎆 Early August (held on Thursday, August 6 in 2026)

About 12,000 shells (2026, official)Paid seats
Weather

☁️ Shiga weather & what to wear

Monthly temperatures, rain and what to wear are in our weather guide.

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