Lake Biwa

By train

The JR Tokaido Main Line and the Tokaido Shinkansen lines run more or less along the southern and eastern coasts of the lake, connecting Otsu and Hikone to Kyoto and Osaka in the west and Nagoya in the east. The private Keihan Keishin Line 京阪京津線 provides the cheapest way of getting from Kyoto to Otsu and onward with a change of train to Sakamoto.