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title: Marutake Omi Nishikawa
url: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/marutake-omi-nishikawa/
lang: en
journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/omihachiman/
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# Marutake Omi Nishikawa

Places we stopped along the way　/　Omihachiman, Shiga

An Omi beef shop founded in 1947, with a butcher's counter and a restaurant, selling beef raised on its own farm. Old photographs and a cattle lineage chart hang inside.

16 Nakayamachi-naka, Omihachiman, Shiga

## This moment in the journey: An Omi beef shop, and home along Shinmachi street

Through the shrine's torii, hung with a sacred rope and straw ornaments, I walked to a butcher's whose sign reads "Omi beef." The shop deals in Omi beef the old-fashioned way; old photographs of cattle being led and grazing line the walls, along with a chart tracing the lineage of the cows they raise. Omi beef was something I definitely wanted to taste.

I walked home along the elegant Shinmachi street. After dark, the Hachimanbori canal glowed under orange lights, the shadows of cherry branches wavering on the water.

![The front of the butcher's shop with its Omi beef sign and noren](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/omihachiman/s66-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://oumi-marutake.jp/
- Sources: https://tabelog.com/shiga/A2503/A250301/25000249/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/omihachiman/