OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--For the first time in four years, the Otsu Festival will be held in its complete format with all 13 floats bearing mechanical puppets from Oct. 7-8. The festival is an annual ...

Dumplings are making their way to the restaurant spot adjacent to The Mill & Mine just north of the Old City. The former Tako Taco location on Depot Avenue will soon serve Asian-style dumplings in a ...

The city of Otsu, with a population of 340,000, is in the south of Shiga Prefecture and is bordered by Lake Biwa on the east and Kyoto on the west. For over 1,350 years, Otsu has been a historic city ...

I was a big fan of Tako Taco and was saddened when it closed about a year and a half ago. However, the creative team behind that venture came back last year with Otsu!, a concept that’s more purely ...

Escape the crowds at Kyoto and head to the nearby city of Otsu by the shore of Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. The capital city of Shiga prefecture and just 10 minutes by train from Kyoto, Otsu was ...