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title: Omihachiman
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# Omihachiman

Travel journal from Omihachiman, with 15 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Hachimanbori Canal, Old Hachiman Post Office, Hakuunkan, Himure Hachimangu Shrine.

## Journeys

- [A day in Omihachiman, where boats glide through town](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/omihachiman/index.md): Omihachiman, Japan's historical castle town（2023-03-18）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Funazushi ochazuke](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/funazushi-ochazuke/index.md): Funazushi is a fermented sushi found throughout Shiga: crucian carp from Lake Biwa, salted and then layered with cooked rice in a tub to ferment for more than half a year.
- [Omi beef steak](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/omi-beef-steak/index.md): Omi beef is Shiga's pride, Japan's first brand of beef and counted among the three great wagyu.
- [Chojifu with mustard dressing](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/chojifu-with-mustard-dressing/index.md): Chojifu is Omihachiman's local wheat gluten, cut into squares.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Hachimanbori Canal](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hachimanbori-canal/index.md): A 4,750-meter canal dug in 1585, when Toyotomi Hidetsugu, nephew of Hideyoshi, built his castle on Mt.
- [Old Hachiman Post Office](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/old-hachiman-post-office/index.md): A two-story wooden Western-style building designed by William Merrell Vories and completed in 1921.
- [Hakuunkan](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hakuunkan/index.md): Built in 1877 as the Hachiman East School by Omi merchants to educate their children, in a Western-influenced style, with most of the cost covered by donations.
- [Himure Hachimangu Shrine](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/himure-hachimangu-shrine/index.md): An ancient shrine long revered as the guardian of the Omi merchants.
- [Red konnyaku](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/red-konnyaku/index.md): A local ingredient that spread nationwide from Omihachiman.
- [Hinona pickles](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hinona-pickles/index.md): Hinona is a slender turnip native to Hino, Shiga, purple-red at the top of the root and white below, with a flavor that carries both bitterness and bite.
- [Ryoma 1865](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ryoma-1865-omihachiman/index.md): With dinner I opened Ryoma 1865 from Nippon Beer, an alcohol-free (0.00%) beer made only from malt, hops and carbonation.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Hatsuyuki Shokudo](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hatsuyuki-shokudo/index.md): A Showa-era diner.
- [Taneya Himure-no-ya](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/taneya-himure-no-ya/index.md): Taneya's confectionery beside Himure Hachimangu Shrine, in a Japanese-style house with a kamado stove and a sunken hearth.
- [La Collina Omihachiman](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/la-collina-omihachiman/index.md): The Taneya group's confectionery complex, with grass-roofed buildings.
- [Omi Tsukemono Yamajo, Himure shop](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/omi-tsukemono-yamajo-himure-shop/index.md): The pickle maker's own shop on the approach to Himure Hachimangu Shrine.
- [Marutake Omi Nishikawa](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/marutake-omi-nishikawa/index.md): An Omi beef shop founded in 1947, with a butcher's counter and a restaurant, selling beef raised on its own farm.