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Mount Bunagatake
is a mountain in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. This mountain is one of the 200 famous mountains in Japan and also one of the Kinki 100 mountains. Outline Mount Bunagatake is the highest mountain of Hira Mountains. Hira mountains consist of three parts, Oku-Hira, Kita-Hira and Minami-Hira, literally, ‘Deep Hira’, ‘North Hira’, and ‘South Hira’. Mount Bunagatake belongs to Oku-Hira, and on the Mesozoic strata as other mountains of Oku-Hira. This mountain is also a part of Biwako Quasi-National Park, and visitors can enjoy the almost 360 degree panorama view from the top. Access From Hira Station to the middle of this mountain, Hira Chair Lift, which was made in 1960, and Hira Ropeway opened in 1961, connected until 2004 with a Bus route by Kojyaku Bus. However the chair lift and the ropeway were removed in 2004, and the Bus route was also discontinued after that. * Hira Station of Kosei Line The is a commuter rail line in Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hira Station (Shiga)
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Hira Station is served by the Kosei Line, and is from the starting point of the line at and from . Station layout The station consists of two opposed elevated side platforms with the station building underneath. The station is staffed. Platforms History The station opened on 20 July 1974 as a station on the Japan National Railway (JNR). The station became part of the West Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 due to the privatization and dissolution of the JNR. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Hira being assigned station number JR-B20. Passenger statistics In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1544 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Surrounding area * Japan National Route 161 * Hira Mountain Trailhead (Mt. Domandake, Mt. Shaka) * Hira Mountain Ski Resort * Biwako Seikei Sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto Bus
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, the Honn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosei Line
The is a commuter rail line in Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The line was completed in 1974 by the former Japanese National Railways (JNR) to provide faster access from the Kansai region to the Hokuriku region. It originates at Yamashina Station in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto and ends at Ōmi-Shiotsu Station in Nagahama, Shiga. Its name means "the line to the west of the lake," indicating that it approximately parallels the western shore of Biwako. Trains continue from Omi-Shiotsu Station to Tsuruga Station on the Hokuriku Main Line Yamashina to Kyoto Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line for convenient transfer to lines serving the Kansai as well as the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. In addition to local, Rapid and Special Rapid services, limited express trains such as the ''Thunderbird'', as well as freight trains are frequently operated on the line. Only few of limited express trains stop at Katata or Omi-Imazu and others skip all stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hira Ropeway
Hira may refer to: Places * Cave of Hira, a cave associated with Muhammad *Al-Hirah, an ancient Arab city in Iraq ** Battle of Hira, 633AD, between the Sassanians and the Rashidun Caliphate *Hira Mountains, Japan * Hira, New Zealand, settlement north-east of Nelson, New Zealand * Hira (ghetto), an old Jewish ghetto in Tunis, see History of the Jews in Tunisia *Hira (Greece), an ancient Greek settlement Other uses * Hira (surname) *Hira (given name) * Hira (mythical monster), among the Songhai people of West Africa * The Hira Company Ltd, the parent company of Texet Sales Ltd, a British distributor of calculators and electronic devices * HIRA, a gene * Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, a technique used to identify add address occupational safety and health risks *"Hira", a song by Redgum from their 1984 album ''Frontline'' * Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), a government agency in South Korea *, the ISO 15924 script code for Hiragana is a Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hira Chair Lift
Hira may refer to: Places * Cave of Hira, a cave associated with Muhammad *Al-Hirah, an ancient Arab city in Iraq ** Battle of Hira, 633AD, between the Sassanians and the Rashidun Caliphate *Hira Mountains, Japan * Hira, New Zealand, settlement north-east of Nelson, New Zealand * Hira (ghetto), an old Jewish ghetto in Tunis, see History of the Jews in Tunisia *Hira (Greece), an ancient Greek settlement Other uses * Hira (surname) *Hira (given name) * Hira (mythical monster), among the Songhai people of West Africa * The Hira Company Ltd, the parent company of Texet Sales Ltd, a British distributor of calculators and electronic devices * HIRA, a gene * Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, a technique used to identify add address occupational safety and health risks *"Hira", a song by Redgum from their 1984 album ''Frontline'' * Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), a government agency in South Korea *, the ISO 15924 script code for Hiragana is a Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
