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  2. Lake Biwa - Wikipedia

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    Lake Biwa (琵琶湖, Biwa-ko) is the largest freshwater lake in Japan. It is located entirely within Shiga Prefecture (west-central Honshu ), northeast of the former capital city of Kyoto . [ 3 ] Lake Biwa is an ancient lake , over 4 million years old. [ 1 ]

  3. Nagahama, Shiga - Wikipedia

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    Nagahama is located on the northern shore of Lake Biwa and occupies most of the northern portion of Shiga Prefecture. It is generally bounded by the Ibuki Mountains to the east, the Nosaka Mountains to the north and Lake Biwa to the south. The city is the second largest in the prefecture in terms of land area, after Takashima.

  4. Hikone, Shiga - Wikipedia

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    Hikone (彦根市, Hikone-shi) is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 111,958 in 49066 households and a population density of 570 persons per km². [1] The total area of the city is 196.84 square kilometres (76.00 sq mi).

  5. Shiga Prefecture - Wikipedia

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    Shiga Prefecture encircles Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, and 37% of the total land area is designated as Natural Parks, the highest of any prefecture. Shiga Prefecture's southern half is located adjacent to the former capital city of Kyoto and forms part of Greater Kyoto , the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Japan.

  6. Moriyama, Shiga - Wikipedia

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    Lake Biwa from Moriyama. Moriyama (守山市, Moriyama-shi) is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 85,485 in 34366 households and a population density of 1533.63 persons per km 2. [1] The total area of the city is 55.74 square kilometres (21.52 sq mi).

  7. ‘8 Views of Lake Biwa’ Review: Enigmatic Estonian Romantic ...

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    Relatively commonplace as that description may read, writer-director Marko Raat’s “8 Views of Lake Biwa” is closer to a dreamlike folktale — set sometime during the 20 th century — than ...

  8. Hikone Castle - Wikipedia

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    Hikone Castle is located one kilometer from Lake Biwa due to land reclamation, but originally the castle was directly on the lakeshore, and the north and east sides were surrounded by water. The Hikone area is in eastern Ōmi Province , and the site was a natural bottleneck on the route of the Tōsandō (later the Nakasendō ) highway ...

  9. Takeshima (Shiga) - Wikipedia

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    Takeijima photographed from Lake Biwa Kisen. Takeshima (多景島) is an island in Shiga, Japan.It is uninhabited and part of Biwako Quasi National Park. [1] It is the smallest island of Lake Biwa [2] and is administered by the city of Hikone which is 6.5 km east of the island. [3]

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