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Hikone

Travel Information

Hikone (彦根) is located right next to Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture. The most popular feature of Hikone is Hikone Castle, one of the 12 existed remaining castles of Japan and The National Treasure of Japan. Not only the castle, there are many buildings still remains since Edo Period which gives you the great image of the castle town of Edo Period. There is Edo style shopping district called the Castle Road.

Tourist Info.
Park at the castle and all of the attraction are in walking distance.

Access
0. Maihara Station
1. use JR Tokaido Line to Hikone (5 min.)


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Detailed Travel Guide

Hikone

Hikone lies on the Nakasendō, which was one of the most important trading routes during the Edo period, and is home to two former post stations, Toriimoto-juku and Takamiya-juku. Today, a small area south of the castle, called the Yume Kyōbashi Castle Road, is built in the old style and attracts visitors keen to see modern construction fused with traditional looks. Even the Biwako Bank in this district has remodeled itself to fit in with the surrounding structures.

Hikone is the home of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU), a facility operated jointly by a consortium of the fifteen public universities in the State of Michigan and the government of Shiga Prefecture that offers programs for American university students and scholars for the study of Japanese language and culture, as well as courses in English for the citizens of Shiga Prefecture. The Michigan Center, as it is known, was founded in 1989, under the auspices of the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Agreement, the oldest such relationship between a US state and Japanese prefecture.