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Shigaraki / Koka

Category

Tokaido Tenmakan

4.5

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Koka-shi Tsuchiyamacho Kitatsuchiyama 1570

A three-minute walk from Ohmi Tsuchiyama Station (not to be confused with Tsuchiyama Station), and a five-minute drive from the Koka-Tsuchiyama Interchange. This memorial museum is located near the site of the Tsuchiyama clan honjin stronghold in what was once the post station town of Tsuchiyama-juku on the old Tokaido Highway. Operating out of an old Japanese home built in the late Edo period, the structure itself is one of the museum's exhibits. In addition to introducing the history of Tsuchiyama-juku, museum exhibits include indoor and outdoor models of the old Tokaido Highway depicting government officials moving along its length. The museum also gives visitors the chance to put on traditional Japanese traveling garb and have their picture taken, offers a tea dying activity which uses the area's famous tea, and sells local specialty products.

東海道伝馬館は、古民家を活かした施設で1階には土山宿のジオラマがある。２階には東海道五十三次を再現した立体展示もある。これは見ごたえあり！！外の蔵には、大名行列の人形が並ぶなど、土山宿に関することを知る事ができる。時期によっては、伝馬館でミニコンサートや展覧会が行われている。
Mifuku Shuzo

3.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Minakuchichounishihayashiguchi 3-2

A sake brewery located in Nishihayashiguchi Minakuchi-cho, Koka City. The brewery makes Yamahai-jikomi (natural yeast with no mashing) and Ginjo-jikomi (high quality, low fermentation) sakes and its products have received high acclaim at the Annual Japan Sake Awards and other national and international contests. Tours of the brewery, which has been in operation since the Meiji period, are available and visitors can taste sakes and purchase limited edition sakes in the brewery’s shop. The shop also sells limited edition sakes by volume once a month.

旧東海道を石部から歩いてきて、水口に入ったところにあり、休憩と試飲で立ち寄りました。創業は大正時代ですが、江戸から続く酒蔵の雰囲気を出しています。歩きだったのでお手頃サイズを購入しました。
Narita Fureai Ranch

3.5

3 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Koka-shi Konancho Shinji 696

A three-minute drive from the Konan Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This ranch, identifiable by its blue silos, is situated amidst the rolling hills of Koka no Sato. Keeping some three hundred milk cows, goats, sheep, ponies, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, and cats, the farm is open to the public and visitors can interact and play with the animals. In addition to wide open pastureland with spectacular views, farm highlights include flower beds planted with seasonal flowers, and a springtime avenue of cherry trees. Facilities include a barbecue house, gelato shop, and a wagon selling seasonal fruit and vegetables.

The animals are very well looked after, and trust people to feed and pat them. Lots of farm animals and babies. Handmade ice cream, waffles, and pudding.
Sotoen

4.5

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichounagano 1423-13

A Shigaraki ware studio located in Nagano Shigaraki-cho, Koka City. The studio sells Shigaraki ware using 11 chambers, 30-meter-long climbing kiln, one of the largest in Japan, built along the slop of a mountain. The studio also holds ceramics classes and classes on making your very own ceramic tanuki raccoon figurine (reservation is required).

お忙しい中、無料で案内して下さいました。信楽で現在ものぼり窯で焼いているのはこちらだけとか。1300度で7日間から9日間火を焚き続けるとか。圧巻です。作品も素敵でした。手造り教室もありました。
Oogoya

3.5

14 Reviews

Life / Living / Hospital

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichouchokushi 2349

A commercial complex focusing on Shigaraki ware galleries and shops situated along the Oumi-Green Road close to the entrance to Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Chokushi Shigaraki-cho, Koka City. Here you’ll find shops selling boutique items, Shigaraki ware, and other ceramics; galleries; and a ceramics class facility, as well as restaurants and a garden café offering brick oven-baked bread and sweets.

レストランの犬専用出入口があり、ペットと近江牛が食べれます。少々高めのお値段ですが、とても美味しかったです。特選近江牛のすき焼き2,500円。彩りは悪いけど、味は抜群。小型犬で抱っこできるなら、信楽焼きの展示スペースにも入ることができるそうです。
Koka Strawberry House

5.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Koukachoutakano 2209

A strawberry farm located in Takano Koka-cho, Koka City. The farm grows the popular Akihime strawberry variety inside greenhouses. From January to the late May, the farm offers a 30 minute all-you-can-eat strawberry picking course.

時期的にどの農園も予約でいっぱいの中、何とか予約を取ることが出来ました。人が少なく、貸しきりの様な時間帯もあり、ゆっくり食べることが出来ました。１歳の娘も始めてのイチゴ狩りに大興奮していました♪
Bungoro Gama

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 1087

A 15-minute drive from the Shigaraki Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This longstanding pottery studio has been in business since 1862. The studio was established by Bungoro Okuda I when he built a climbing kiln where the pottery studio still stands today. Bungo Okuda, the current and fifth generation head of the studio specializes in making ceramic bathtubs and other large pottery pieces using a potter's wheel, while his younger brother, Akira Okuda, makes simple, modern, and highly utilitarian tableware which blends in with both Japanese and Western decors. The studio's gallery, Bungoro Soko, which operates out of a remodeled warehouse, displays and sells pieces by Akira and can also be rented out for use as an exhibition space or for other events.

ここでは信楽の窯元散策路にある窯元のひとつである文五郎窯の作品を購入することができます。文五郎窯の器はどれもデザインがシンプルで美しく、和食でも洋食でも日常の食卓に使いやすそうなものばかりでした。窓の外にそよぐ竹林を活かした作りの美しいギャラリーです。
Luciole

3.0

1 Reviews

Shopping

Shiga Koka-shi Minakuchicho Kitawaki 1901

Head southwest from the Satsukigaokaguchi Intersection, take a left at the next intersection, and you'll arrive at this farmers market. Operated by Luciole Farm, the market is also adjoined by the Vege Rice restaurant on the opposite side of the road. The onion dressing, made with the farm's own onions, has become particularly popular. It has even been awarded a Monde Selection Gold Award. The market also sells a wide variety of rice brands, seasonal vegetables, and more.

近時「道の駅」のような大きな施設でなくとも、近隣農家が出品したり、共同運営農場が販売する直売所は増えています。こちらもそのような施設のひとつ、野菜を中心とした食事処を併設していますが、こじんまりとしており、盛大に売り出そうという気合は感じられません。この時期（9月）限定のイチジク、タマネギを大量に使用したドレッシング類が特徴的な商品でしょうか、冷凍ですが近隣の著名な精肉店「山村」の近江牛切り落と...
Ruins of Shigarakinomiya Palace (Ruins of Kokaji Temple)

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichoumiyamachi Maki ・ Kise

The ruins of Shigaraki no Miya are a historic site located a 15-minute walk from Kumoi Station on the Shigaraki Kogen Railway. Visitors approaching the site along one of the paths (90 meters east to west, 100 meters south to north) are surrounded by lush pines and eventually encounter the remains of the main temple structure. Behind it are the remains of the monks' quarters, the sutra library, the bell-tower and the pagoda, and totally more than 300 of the original building stones remain, giving the visitor a sense of the elegance of the long-ago Tempyo period (729-749 AD). It is supposed to be the remains of Kokadera Temple, where Emperor Shomu decreed the building of a large Buddha statue, and the layout of the buildings is reminiscent of Todaiji, where the Great Buddha of Nara is located.
Shigaraki-no-Miya Palace Ruins

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichoumiyamachi

This site is confirmed to have been the location of the Shigaraki-no-Miya Palace, which was built by Emperor Shomu in the distant mid-Nara period. Over 7,000 artifacts, including pottery and mokkan wooden writing strips, have been excavated at the site. One item that has gained particular attention is a mokkan with two poems from the ancient “Man’yoshu” poetry anthology written on either side. Today, the ruins sleep under rice paddies, and artifacts discovered at the site are displayed in a nearby museum. (Closed weekends. No advance reservation required. Large groups must make contact in advance.)
Kurashiki Café ＆ Cakes

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Minakuchichouminakuchi 624-1

A café situated along National Route 307 in Minakuchi Minakuchi-cho, Koka City. The café serves coffee made with charcoal roasting Hagiwara Coffee beans from Kobe, cakes and cookies made by hand daily, and a one plate lunch special only served on weekdays and limited to 10 customers per day. On Saturdays and Sundays, the café also serves lunch dishes like doria pilafs and omelet rice. The interior, decorated entirely with English antique furniture, is part of the café’s charm.

出張の際に手土産を探しておりましたが近くにあまり店がなく、たまたまランチで入ったお店に手作りクッキーやケーキがあり試食させていただき、クッキーや色々詰め合わせを選んだのですが、取引先に持っていったらとても喜ばれました。地元では有名なのでしょうか？
Ocha no Horanoen

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichoukamiasamiya 249-1

A tea shop and Japanese-style sweets café situated along the Oumi-Green Road in Kamiasamiya Shigaraki-cho, Koka City. The establishment serves warabi mochi bracken starch jelly, zenzai sweet azuki bean soup, matcha zenzai, and other Japanese sweets; it also sells Asamiya tea leaves, a local specialty product.

サイクリングで信楽朝宮エリアにちょこちょこ行きます。その時目的地候補になるのがこちら。釜でお湯が沸かされてて、2杯目からは自分でお湯を注いで淹れます。冬はおぜんざい、夏はわらび餅かな。特に冬、寒い中を走って頂くおぜんざいのありがたみはなんとも言えません。そしてお値段もリーズナブル！持ち帰り用のおはぎとかも美味しそう。店を出る時にはいつもスタッフさんが「気ぃつけてねー」と声をかけて下さるのが嬉...
Takama Mizube Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Koukachouaburahi 2216

A public park located in Aburahi Koka-cho, Koka City. Facilities include a campground, cooking building, and training rooms, as well as a river water slide. The park’s plaza has a no reservations required barbecue area (note that the park does not offer barbecue equipment rentals).
UOMATSU, Main Store

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shiga Koka-shi Kokacho Kami 2376

2019年11/3に女二人旅で近江牛と松茸の食べ放題「あばれ食い」に挑戦しました！信楽店で予約をして伺いましたが、名前と電話番号の確認なく空いた席に案内されました。前に並んでいた6名様家族も予約した意味がない！と憤慨しながら案内されていました。着席後もいつ注文してくれるのか、スタッフはバタバタウロウロして忙しそうでした。とにかくこちらからの声かけで対応、いい加減なものでした。お会計の時も、何名様で...
Hands-on Pottery Wheel Classes Yukitosha

Life / Living / Hospital

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Chokushi 2344
Jurakuji

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Koka-shi Tsuchiyamacho Yamanaka 351
shiroiro-ie

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 645
Uzan Kiln

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 789
Koka Mochi Kobo

Shopping

Shiga Koka-shi Kokacho Kosaji 2121-1

10 minutes from the Koka-Tsuchiyama Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway via Prefectural Route 127. This agricultural cooperative makes and sells mochi rice cakes using Shiga Habutae glutinous rice, a local specialty product grown using soil containing heavy clay from the ancient Lake Biwa. The Yomogi An Mochi, the shop's most popular product, is a rice cake made with Japanese mugwort and filled with fragrant sweet bean paste. Other popular products include chewy taiyaki bean jam-filled pancakes made with rice flour; and breakfast taiyaki filled with a wiener, cheese, and eggs. In the Mochimochi House light meal area, customers can enjoy dishes made with fresh mochi rice cakes and rice flour.
Nishiki Chaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shiga Koka-shi Kokacho Oharanaka 1034

A 10-minute drive from the Koka-Tsuchiyama Interchange and Konan Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This restaurant has been serving Japanese cuisine crafted from seasonal ingredients for over 50 years and spanning two generations. The restaurant's signature medicinal herb meal incorporates medicinal herbs picked on the mountains of Koka and includes sushi, tempura, and popular medicinal cooking cuisine; the lunchtime meal is only available from March to November. The restaurant's traditional kaiseki course meal can be ordered by small groups as well as large and includes hotpot dishes made with choice, seasonal ingredients, including sea bream and sweetfish in spring, daggertooth pike conger and eel in summer, matsutake mushrooms and skipjack tuna in fall, and blowfish and crab in winter.

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Shiga Areas

Visitors to Shiga prefecture are almost always hopping east across the prefectural border from Kyoto, and they are almost certainly Lake Biwa-bound. Covering an area of 670 square kilometers, Lake Biwa makes up the bulk of Shiga prefecture, with beautiful lakeside paths that offer myriad walking and cycling opportunities, connecting a string of museums, shrines, and picturesque views that finally lead you to Hikone Castle on the eastern side of the lake.