
Otsu
Japan
Otsu: facts
At a glance
- Country: Japan
- Region: Shiga
- Administrative status: seat of a first-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA)
- Population: approximately 345,070
- Coordinates: 35.0000° N, 135.8667° E
- Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (UTC+09:00)
- Currency: Yen (JPY)
- Distance to the capital, Tokyo: 355 km (221 mi), straight line
Getting there
- Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM): 46 km (28 mi), straight line
- Kobe Airport (UKB): 71 km (44 mi), straight line
- Kansai International Airport (KIX): 85 km (53 mi), straight line
Nearby
- Zeze: 2.0 km (1.2 mi)
- Awazucho: 4.0 km (2.5 mi)
- Kusatsu: 9.3 km (5.8 mi)
- Kyoto: 11 km (7 mi)
- Kamigyo-ku: 11 km (7 mi)
Sources
- Ōtsu
Coming up in Otsu
- 15 Nov 2026: 7-5-3 Day
- 23 Nov 2026: Labor Thanksgiving Day
- 25 Dec 2026: Christmas
- 31 Dec 2026: December 31 Bank Holiday
- 31 Dec 2026: Yasaka Shrine Okera Mairi
- 31 Dec 2026: Fushimi Inari Taisha Hatsumode
- 1 Jan 2027: New Year's Day
- 2 Jan 2027: January 2 Bank Holiday
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