Firstly, Moriyama has the coolest manhole covers I've ever seen. I'm not sure what this is a picture of- it looks like a bug, and a gold coin, and some mountains, and perhaps there's a river in there someplace. Like a lot of Japan, it's pretty cool even if you don't get it.

Second, we in Shiga also have a Ginza street. It differs from Tokyo's Ginza in the following ways: