- INFORMATION
Summer Event Special: July
| Name |
Date |
Inquiry |
Place & Comment |
Dragon Canoe Festival
Citizens' Dragon Canoe Festival
Dragon Canoe Young Festival
Dragon Canoe
Friendship Festival |
July 2
July 16
July 30 |
Notogawa Citizens'
Sports Center
0748-42-5099 |
Notogawa Water Wheel Canoe Land
Dragon shapes canoes of compete for ranking. They pull out into the lake to the drumbeat. |
| Gion Evening Festival |
July 14 & 15 |
Echigawa Industry & Land Cultivation Division
0749-42-4111 |
In Echigawa
There will be a firework festival at the riverbed of Echigawa River on the 2nd day. |
| Shigaraki Ceramic Festival |
July 28, 29,
and 30 |
Shigaraki Commerce
& Industry Association
0748-82-0873 |
All over Shigaraki
Potters and shops will supply various goods. There will be an exhibition and a fire festival, too. |
| Kiln Training Course |
Usually once per month, Second Sunday
July 9 |
Shiga Prefectural
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
0748-83-0909 |
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Let's try to make Shigaraki Ceramics. |
| Birdman Contest |
July 28 & 29 |
Hikone City Sightseeing Division
0749-22-1411 |
Matsubara Beach, Hikone City
Unique man-powered airplanes turn up in this popular summer event. |
Firework Festival August
| Name |
Date |
Inquiry |
Place & Comment |
Biwako-Ohashi
Moriyama Firework Festival |
August 5
(Provisional) |
Moriyama Sightseeing Association
077-582-1131 |
Offing of Moriyama Fishing Port, Moriyama City |
Ogoto Hot Spring
Fireworks Festival |
August 1 |
Ogoto Sightseeing Association
077-578-1650 |
Ogoto, Otsu City |
Great Hikone
Fireworks Festival |
August 1 |
Hikone Sightseeing Association
0749-23-0001 |
Hikone Port, Hikone City |
| Makino Summer Carnival |
August 5 |
Makino Sightseeing Association
0740-28-1188 |
Makino Sunny Beach,
Makino |
Northern Biwako
Fireworks Festival |
August 5 |
Nagahama Commerce, Industry and Sightseeing Division
0749-62-4111 |
All over Nagahama,
Nagahama City |
Great Biwako
Fireworks Festival |
August 8 |
Shiga Sightseeing Federation
0775-23-2752 |
Offshore of Otsu Port, Otsu City. The biggest firework festival in the Prefecture |
| Nishinoko Fireworks Festival |
August 6 |
Azuchi Regional Development Division
0748-46-3141 |
West Lakeside, Azuchi |
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Hello, Mimitaro readers. Summer has come already and it's getting hotter, isn't it? Have you gotten used to your new life? I guess you are trying hard not to be discouraged by your new workplace, school, human relations and so on.
As for me, I have had bad luck for this one year. But I heard some happy news this spring. I have a nephew at last. He is very cute. Everyone calls me "Aunt" now, so I feel like I'm about ten years older. But he is really cute. I lived with him for a month or so. I feel he had grown very much and become strong during that month. I hope he will grow up both mentallly and physically by eating, playing, and learning more and more. Though my physical growth has stopped already, I want to take, on new challenges, absorb many things and become a woman of wide scope so that I can keep up with his growth.
Chikako Motojima
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