The streets of Gotanso

The streets of Gotanso

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JR Notogawa Station → Omi Railway Bus 10 minutes to Yokaichi Station, bus stop: Plaza Mikata Yoshita, 5 minutes on foot; or Omi Railway Gokiraso Station → 30 minutes on foot
10km15 minutes from Meishin High Speed Yokaichi IC
100 units/free

Business Hours

Freedom to walk (enter the Omi Merchant House from 9:30 to 16:30)

Price

Freedom to walk (Omi merchant house 3 common entrance 600 yen, other questions required)

Spot Category

Shopping Street・Townscape・Promenade

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Higashi-Omi-shi, Plaza Mikata

It is an essential facility for Gotonso sightseeing. First of all, let's visit here and work out a plan to walk through Gotonso. There are also goods stores such as Libeokaki 300 yen and sesame senbei 350 yen, as well as goods from the city of Higashi-Omi.

Omi Merchant Museum, Zhongji Merchant Memorial Hall, Higashi-Omi City

Omi merchant who hawked around the country with a body stick over his shoulder. The city of Higashi-Omi produced many Omi merchants during the Edo period. The museum will introduce the commercial law, education, school training, and art of the Omi merchant using images and models. In addition, there is also a corner where you can experience the weight of a pedestrian trip, a shop, and a body stick, a thousand boxes, and a back-to-back furoshiki. The Nakaji Merido Memorial Hall displays works by Japanese painter Nakaji Merito, who has been painting the original landscape of the lake country for the rest of his life.

Nakae Jingoro Residence

During the early Showa era, the main house of the Sannakai clan, who operated more than 20 department stores in places such as the Korean Peninsula and the Chinese continent, was credited as the "department store king". There is a two-story wooden main house, a storehouse and a garden on a site of about 1000 square meters. The storehouse displays Obata dolls and clay figures from all over the country.

Medical Temple

Standing in a quiet mountain area overlooking the Takataka River, there is a statue of the Eleanji Guanyin (Important Cultural Property), which has a striking neat face of fine eyes and thin lips. The work of the Heian period. It is introduced in the novel "Hoshito no Matsuri" by Yasushi Inoue as "Guanyin-sama, modeled on the figure of a princess maiden." it is necessary to contact the Okubiwa Tourism Association in advance for viewing.

Lotus Temple

It was founded by Prince Shotoku and later re-founded by Isakenjin. The jōjō nakatoki [Nakatoki] and the tombs of the vassals (historical sites), which were self-bladed with the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, are located in the precincts, and the "Rukura [Rokuhara] North-South Pagebook" (Important Cultural Property), which bears their names, also remains. Also enshrined is the Jizo of "Bōba no Chutaro", famous for his "Mother of the Pyelid" by Shinsaku Hasegawa.

Longtan Temple

The Bodaiji temple of the Ii family, which was moved from Yōshu Iitani, and is famous for its famous gardens, including the "Fudaraku no Yard" of Karesansui with 48 stones placed on white sand.

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