OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--For the first time in ... The event is one of the three major festivals held near Lake Biwako and designated by the central government as an important intangible folk ...

including Kyoto's Shijo-Kawara area where people are seen enjoying the cool of a summer evening and the Ukimido hall located by the shore of Lake Biwako in Otsu, before ending with his grave at ...

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Built in A.D. 794 on the model of the capitals of ancient China, Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan from its foundation until the middle of the 19th century. As the centre of Japanese culture for ...