Chikubu Island, Hayazakicho, Nagahama, Shiga 526-0124, Japan
Nagahama, Shiga
Sacred island floating on Lake Biwa. Home to Hogonji Temple and Tsuguofusuma Shrine
Chikubu Island, floating in the northern part of Lake Biwa, has long been revered as a sacred place of worship.
Hogonji Temple and Tsuguofusuma Shrine are enshrined here, with Hogonji Temple's five-story pagoda being particularly renowned as an iconic landscape of Lake Biwa.
