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Hikone Port. Takeshima is a small island in Lake Biwa off Hikone, accessible by a short boat ride.
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Boat for Takeshima at Hikone Port.
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Hikone Port
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Hikone Castle as seen from Lake Biwa.
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Cormorants. There are to many of them and they deplete fisheries in the lake and cause forest damage.
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Kawau cormorants. Shiga has over 40,000 of these birds, and 30,000 of them live on Chikubushima whose trees are being destroyed by the droppings and branches broken off to make bird nests.
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To Takeshima
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Almost no one in the boat
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Takeshima in Hikone, Shiga.
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Nichiren Monument on Takeshima.
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Enter Takeshima
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Nichiren temple
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Lotus Sutra monument
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Nichiren statue
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View of Takeshima
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View of Takeshima
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View of Takeshima
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View of Takeshima
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View of Takeshima, an island with many shapes.
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Another view of Takeshima
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