Ōmi Kokuchō (original) (raw)

The Ōmi Provincial Capital ruins (近江国庁跡, Ōmi Kokuchō ato) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the Ōe neighborhood of the city of Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. Identified as the ruins of the kokufu (provincial capital) of Ōmi Province, the site has protected as a National Historic Site from 1973.