Gokasho Kondo

**Buy the three-house ticket.** ¥600 covers Tonomura Shigeru, Tonomura Uhei and Nakae Junguro. The Fujii Hikoshiro house is a short distance away and ticketed separately. **Look at how plain they are.** Enormous houses with almost no display. The merchants traded in places where a Shiga outsider showing wealth would have been a problem, and the architecture is the record of that discipline. **Sanpo yoshi is not a slogan invented for tourists.** Good for the seller, the buyer and the world, stated in the seventeenth century, and it is the founding principle several present-day Japanese corporations still cite. **The canal and the hedges are the walk.** Free, and quieter than the houses. Carp in the water and clipped hedges along the lanes. **Tonomura Shigeru was a novelist.** His house is also a literary museum, which makes it the most interesting of the three if you only do one. **Combine with the Kotosanzan temples.** Kongorinji and the other two are 20 minutes east and are the region's autumn draw.