Kusatsu

Kusatsu is a city situated in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The city was established on October 15, 1954. Starting at 2016, the city has an expected populace of 139,832 and a populace thickness of 2,100 people for every km². The absolute territory is 67.82 km². In the Edo period, Kusatsu created as an intersection shukuba of Tokaido and Nakasendo, Kusatsu-juku. The city and its bordering city Ritto are as yet a vital traffic intersection of southern Shiga; Biwako Line, Kusatsu Line, Meishin Expressway, Shin-Meishin Expressway, Japan National Route 1 and Japan National Route 8.

Kusatsu can be come to from Kyoto inside 30 minutes by going via train on the Biwako Line. The core of the city generally includes vast new condo squares and numerous individuals lived there because of the simplicity of driving to work in focal Kansai, for example, Kyoto and Osaka. For comparative reasons, there are a few business lodgings, love inns and inns providing food for weddings around Kusatsu.

Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto has a subcampus in Kusatsu. There is the Lake Biwa Museum identified with the normal history of Lake Biwa situated inside the city and near a scaffold over the lake, and the Mizunomori Water Botanical Garden highlights broad presentations of lotus plants. The city is frequently mistaken for Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, which is a well known hot spring resort. There is even an impersonation of the Gunma Kusatsu hot spring in the nearby open shower house.