When it ends in Shiga.Omi Hachiman's "Cherry blossom viewing and boat experience"versus"Cherry blossom viewing at Yawatabori Water Village"After the itinerary, continue the arrangement"Mitsui Temple Night Sakura Itinerary》, change to Keihan Railway Ishiyamasaka Main Line at JR Shinsho Station, take a train from Keihan Shinsho Station to Mitsuiji Station, and walk along the Lake Biwa Canal to go there. You can inadvertently see the beautiful cherry blossoms of the canal, although you have known this beforehand. The place is also a secret place for viewing cherry blossoms, but you can see the beauty of cherry blossoms, flowing water and green mountains with your own eyes. Especially in the quiet and quiet environment of the evening when there is no crowd, what you can experience is the peace and satisfaction of both body and mind.
Transportation: How to get to the Biwa Lake Canal Cherry Blossom Trail?
Lake Biwa Canal is adjacent to Mitsui Temple, far away from the Keihan cherry blossom viewing area. It is remote but not inconvenient. If you take JR, you can transfer directly to Mitsui Temple by Keihan Bus.However, as far as the cherry blossom viewing itinerary is concerned, the best transportation method is to take the subway or JR from Kyoto, transfer to Keihan Railway (Ishiyama Main Line) and get off at Mitsui Temple Station, and walk directly along the Lake Biwa Canal to Mitsui after leaving the station. Temple, you can stop by and enjoy the cherry blossoms of Lake Biwa Canal and Mitsui Temple in a leisurely manner.
- JR (Tokaido Main Line) Senso Station → Keihan (Ishiyama Main Line) Keihan Senso Station → Mitsui Temple Station
- Kyoto Municipal Tozai Line (Hama Otsu Line) → Keihan (Kyojin Line) Goryu Station (no transfer required) → Hamaotsu Station (transfer) → Keihan (Ishiyamasaka Main Line) Mitsui Temple Station
data source:Station search
Biwa Lake Canal Archives
The Lake Biwa Canal is responsible for moving the water of Lake Biwa all the way from Shiga.Otsu leads to Kyoto.Kamogawa’s heavy responsibility is that for the people of Kyoto, this is a water conservancy system with multiple functions such as people's livelihood, irrigation, power generation, and industry. For tourists, it is a waterway full of cherry blossoms along the way.
The waterway of Lake Biwa Canal runs from the entrance of Otsu Canal, Yamashina Canal, Keage Canal to Okazaki Canal and then into Kamogawa, plus the Biwa Canal-Shirakawa Canal’s Kamogawa River, Koya River, Philosophy Road, Nanzenji Temple, and Koto In Yuan Shirakawa and other places, the waterfront is full of beautiful cherry blossoms, which fully demonstrates the mutual relationship between the cherry blossoms and the flowing water. This is the beautiful waterfront that can only be achieved on the basis of respect and protection of the flowing water.
The beautiful scenery of cherry blossoms in Kyoto based on the protection of water resources. It is highly recommended that you read more about the introduction of Lake Biwa Canal. Even if you don’t understand Japanese, you will be able to deeply appreciate the beauty of the cherry blossoms after browsing many introduction pictures. , And the importance of water resources and environmental protection is the key to the symbiosis between man and nature, and beautiful scenery will naturally arise accordingly.
- Japanese modernization heritage.Lake Biwa Canal:http://www.nishida-s.com/main/categ4/35biwako-sosui/
- World Heritage.Lake Biwa Canal:http://biwaco.com/
- Lake Biwa Canal Memorial Hall:http://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/suido/category/175-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html
- 100 selections of Kansai natural scenery.Lake Biwa Canal:http://www.global-kansai.or.jp/kansai100sen/fukei017.htm
data source:100 selections of Kansai natural scenery
Cherry blossom trail of Lake Biwa Canal
The Otsu entrance area of Lake Biwa Canal is lined with cherry blossom trees, just like Kyoto’s Yamake Canal, Keage Canal, and Okazaki Canal. However, Otsu is located in Shiga, and there are not as many tourists as Kyoto. Many restaurants and commercial facilities allow people to enjoy the peaceful cherry blossom viewing.The so-called drainage refers to the artificially constructed water conservancy canal, which can be used for agricultural irrigation, power generation, industrial and people's livelihood water. It is very different from the natural river scenery. When the artificial drainage is constructed, cherry blossoms are naturally planted to irrigate and beautify the environment. Create a lot of beautiful scenery beside the canal.
Looking at the beautiful scenery of the canal and cherry blossoms, it is reminiscent that Taipei once had natural rivers and water conservancy systems with vertical and horizontal views. In terms of natural rivers, there are Danshui Rivers that converge Xindian River and Dahan River, and Danshui River that converges with Danshui River. Keelung River.In terms of water conservancy systems, in the agricultural era, there was an agricultural irrigation channel called Rungong ditch built by Guo Xiru in the 1740s; in the Japanese rule, there was Horikawa, a drainage system for people's livelihood built by the Governor's Office of Taiwan in the 1930s.Today, most of the irrigation channels of Rugongzhen have been filled with soil, and the main drainage channels of Horikawa have also been covered by roads. The city is more than prosperous, but the sight of Mizuki Qinghua is no longer there.
▲ After exiting the Mitsuiji Station on the Keihan Railway Ishiyamasaka Main Line, Lake Biwa Canal is oncoming.
▲ From the other direction of the canal next to the station, you can go to the canal entrance of Lake Biwa.
▲▼ There are ordinary homes on both sides of the canal. There are no restaurants and commercial facilities around, and the environment is quite quiet.
▲ Walk up along the canal and you will reach the Sano Shrine and Mitsui Temple area.
▲ Inside the iron railing wall is a cherry tree, and the sculptures of the railing also show the image of cherry blossoms.
▲ The Lake Biwa Canal in the evening, with the cool sky and sunset, walking in the meantime makes people feel particularly comfortable.
▲▼ There are traffic roads and bridge piers on the canal. Standing in the middle of the piers, you can see the beautiful scenery of cherry blossoms on both sides of the canal accompanied by the canal.
▲ Looking over from the bridge of the canal, you can see the cherry blossoms on both sides of the river, and the entrance of the Mitsui-ji Waterway at the end of the waterway on the land in the middle.
▲▼ At the end of the waterway of Lake Biwa's No. 1 Canal is the entrance of Mitsui Temple. The canal goes under the ground at this point, and the cherry blossom scenery ends here at the same time.
The guardian deity born in the year of the rabbit at Sanwei Shrine
Next to the end of the Lake Biwa Canal is the Sanwei Shrine dedicated to rabbits. Before walking to Mitsui Temple to appreciate the night maple, there was still a little time left, so I stopped by.Sanwei Shrine is known as the "Patron saint of Mao Nian Sheng." Mao Nian represents rabbits. The entire temple is full of images of rabbits, which can be used to pray for childbirth, passing examinations and traffic safety.The entire temple area of Sanwei Shrine is not large, but the image of the rabbit is too special and cute. I suggest you take a moment to visit it.
▲▼ At the entrance is a lantern with a picture of a cute rabbit.
▲ The image of the rabbit is ubiquitous, and the "hand water house" that provides cleansing of the body and mind is of course no exception.
▲ The mother rabbit with a little rabbit on her back, everyone can pray for an fetus at Sanwei Shrine.
▲ The stone rabbit beside the main entrance of the temple looks really cute.
▲ Sanwei Shrine also offers various types of Omori sales, but it was getting late at the time and the sales place was actually closed!
Friends who want to buy a child can buy the pink Omori in the middle. The front side is to pray for pregnancy, and the back side is safe production. The style I have seen is quite special.
▲ The road next to Mitsui Shrine is the road leading to Mitsui Temple area, and the next step is to welcome Mitsui Temple to enjoy the night cherry blossoms.
◎ Otsu.Lake Biwa Canal
– Venue: 〒520-0034 Mitsuijicho Daimon Street, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture
Mio Shrine
– Address: 〒520-0036 251 Enjojicho, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture
– Introduction page:http://www.7kamado.net/mio.html
