6 Sights in Hikone, Japan (with Map and Images)

Genkyuen is a former daimyo garden located in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture. It is designated as a national scenic spot as "Gengu Rakuen" along with the area of the national special historic site "Hikone Castle Ruins" and the adjacent Raku-en Garden. On April 24, 2015 (Heisei 27), it was certified as a Japan Heritage Site as a constituent cultural property of "Lake Biwa and its waterside landscape-Water heritage of prayer and living".

Wikipedia: 玄宮園 (JA)

Hikone Castle is a Japanese Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is considered the most significant historical site in Shiga. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951. Hikone is one of only twelve castles in Japan with its original tenshu, and one of only five castles listed as a National Treasure.

Wikipedia: Hikone Castle (EN)

Choju-in Temple is a temple of the Daigo school of the Shingon sect located in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture. Its sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to the name of a Buddhist temple, is Daitosan. Its principal image is Benzaiten, one of the three major benzaiten in Japan. It is called Daido Benzaiten.

Wikipedia: 長寿院 (JA)

Shiga Gokoku Shrine is a shrine located in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines more than 34,000 war veterans related to Shiga Prefecture from the Boshin War to World War II. It is currently a separate shrine of the main office of the shrine.

Wikipedia: 滋賀縣護國神社 (JA)

Takamiya-juku was the sixty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, on the right bank of the Inukami River.

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Rakukuen is a historic building, garden and remains in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture. In the past, it was the Shimoyashiki of the Ii family, which was launched in the early Edo period (1677) by the Hikone clan 4th feudal lord Iyai.

Wikipedia: 楽々園 (JA)