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Needing Nagahama

Samurai Era Vibes & Sacred Islands

Donny Kimball
9 min readSep 30, 2021

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The main gate of Nagahama’s Daitsu-ji in Shiga Prefecture

Just recently, I had a harrowing realization while reviewing the locations that I’ve covered here on this blog thus far. Somehow, I had managed to skip featuring Shiga Prefecture’s charming town of Nagahama. Despite spending my most formative years nearby in Hikone and then also rolling through a number of…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/