Otsu: sights | Kansai Travel Guide

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Mount Hiei

mountain in Kyōto, Kyōto prefefecture and Ōtsu, Shiga Prefectures, Japan

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Enryaku-ji Temple

Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Mii-dera Temple

Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Ishiyama-dera Temple

Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Ōmi Jingū

Shinto shrine in Ōtsu, Japan

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Mount Bunagatake

mountain in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Mangetsu-ji Temple

Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Tenson Shrine

Shinto shrine in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Otsu Kogan Nagisa Park

park in Japan

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Iwama-dera Temple

Buddhist temple dedicated to Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara in Otsu, Japan

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Shiga Museum of Art

art museum in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan

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Gichū-ji Temple

Japanese temple

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Mount Hōrai

mountain in Shiga Prefecture Japan

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Hiyoshi Tōshō-gū

Shrine Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Museum of Shiga Prefecture Biwako-Bunkakan

Museum in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Shiga-in Temple

Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect dedicated to Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha in Sakamoto, Japan

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Tachikisan-ji Temple

Buddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū sect dedicated to Āryāvalokiteśvara in Otsu, Japan

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Saikyō-ji Temple

temple in Ōtsu, Shiga

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Ōmi Kokuchō

historic site in Shiga, Japan

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Mount Ōsaka

mountain in Shiga, Japan

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Hongan-ji Chikamatsu Betsu-in Temple

temple in Ōtsu, Shiga

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Setsuko Mitsuhashi Memorial Museum

museum in Japan

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Karasaki Shrine

Shinto shrine in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Myōō-in Temple

Japanese temple

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