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Jidoriya Onza is a chicken specialty restaurant where diners can enjoy dishes that maximize the flavor of chickens through an integrated process that starts with the raising of the chickens. The owner, Mr. Kohei Kawanaka, has many years of experience in chicken farming and chicken meat sales, and he uses this experience in everything he does, from chicken farming and poultry processing to food and beverage. He offers the most delicious dishes of chickens raised in the rich land, and his craftsmanship shines through in each dish. The restaurant's open and airy interior, designed by the owner, who is a qualified first-class architect, is also attractive.

"Meat Cuisine Fukunaga" is a meat restaurant served by the owner, whose family owns Maruki Fukunaga Kisaburo Shoten, a prestigious livestock producer of Oumi beef. Using carefully selected Oumi beef and focusing on cooking methods that bring out the best flavor of the meat, you can enjoy juicy and tender meat dishes. It is a place where you can spend a special moment in a relaxed atmosphere.

This confectionery specialty store is reminiscent of a villa in the south of France. The patissier Watanabe has been steadily building up a lineup of sweets based on the sensibility he has gained from seeing, eating, and feeling in France during his annual visits to France. The store has been selected as one of the “Tabelog Best 100 Sweets Shops West” for six years in a row. We hope you will visit this store, which is loved not only by locals but also by sweets lovers who come from far and wide.

Here at TORASASARU Cafe is a gallery/cafe. The café offers not only drinks, but also a variety of sweets, such as cheesecake that brings out the flavor of cheese and pound cake made with fresh butter. The gallery sells a selection of everyday items that express beauty. The shop consistently emphasizes the value of making customers feel comfortable and creates a very calm space.

I wanted to say "welcome home". With this in mind, Ryokan Beniyu offers the best hospitality to its guests with the flexibility and muddiness for which it prides itself. The cuisine is superb, using local seasonal ingredients such as Oumi beef, Lake Biwa's specialty eel, duck, and sweetfish. Because the ryokan is located on the shore of Lake Biwa, all rooms have a half-open-air hot spring bath facing Lake Biwa. All visitors can immerse themselves in a moment of peace and tranquility.

Yaki saba somen (grilled mackerel somen noodles) served in a 200-year-old restaurant. The grilled mackerel is stewed in a sweet sauce, and the flavor soaks into the somen noodles, giving them a simple yet profound taste. The interior of the 200-year-old restaurant is so comfortable that you can't help but linger. In addition to grilled mackerel somen, the restaurant also serves Oumi beef and duck dishes, making it a place you will want to visit again and again.

Castle Resort Hikone is a luxury resort facility located near Hikone Castle, a national treasure, where you can enjoy the beautiful view of the castle and luxurious hot springs and spa. It also features cuisine using local ingredients, including Oumi beef, and offers comfortable rooms with a blend of Japanese and Western styles. The special space that allows for both sightseeing and relaxation is an attractive feature.

Kobo chouchou's Sake-lees Cheesecake is an exquisite combination of creamy cheese and sake-lees from six different sake breweries. Blessed with clean subterranean water flowing into Lake Biwa and rice grown in the rich nature of Shiga, sake-lees is carefully produced in sake breweries in Shiga, and its rich flavor and the smooth texture of the cheese are in perfect harmony, giving it a unique taste that cannot be found anywhere else. This cheesecake, carefully crafted one by one from the selection of ingredients to the manufacturing process, is a perfect gift or dessert for a special occasion. We hope you will enjoy the fusion of Japanese tradition and Western confectionery in Sake-lees Cheesecake.

Ryokan “Hatago Wakatsu”. It is hope that experience at this inn will warm your heart and nourish your soul as we live together with people in the midst of nature. Such a Ryokan Wakatsu offers a special stay that "empties the mind". The two guest rooms offer a sense of the four seasons of Oumi, and both are carefully designed, one by one, to create a Japanese atmosphere. As a ryokan, the food is also first-rate. In a space where you can face yourself as you are, share time with your loved ones, and feel the history, you will feel warm inside when you leave.

Yakiniku Donburi by Oumi Beef Specialty Restaurant. The specialty of this restaurant is that the carcass is disassembled in the store. Only A5 and A4 class female Japanese black cattle are used, which brings out the melt-in-your-mouth flavor. It may be a bit extravagant, but you must try this Oumi beef.

An auberge located on Lake Oku-Biwako. The word “auberge” is still not well known in Japan, but it is written in French and refers to a restaurant with lodging facilities. In other words, it is a lodging facility where the food is the main attraction. Here at “L'Hotel du Lac,” the American chef, who has trained at some of the world's best restaurants, offers exquisite cuisine that expresses the “wind and land” unique to this region. There are only 15 guest rooms. All rooms overlook Lake Biwa, creating an extraordinary space where you can immerse yourself in nature. Experience something never seen before here at L'Hotel du Lac.