
Come in and experience our unmatched service and food. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped. We provide a high quality food made to perfection, try our desserts for yourself.

There is one public high school operated by the Shiga Prefectural Department of Education. Yasu has six public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the city government. There are several industrial parks in the city. The economy of Yasu is centered on agriculture and light manufacturing. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Shiga 3rd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan. Yasu contributes two members to the Shiga Prefectural Assembly. Yasu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 18 members. Yasu District was dissolved as a result of this merger. Yasu annexed the village of Mikami in 1942, and the villages of Shinohara and Gio in 1955, On October 1, 2004, Yasu absorbed the neighboring town of Chūzu (also from Yasu District) and was elevated to city status. The town of Yasu was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. The minor feudal domain of Mikami Domain controlled by a cadet branch of the Endo clan had its jin'ya in Yasu, but its estates were widely scattered in other locations, mostly in Izumi province. Most of the area was tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period. Yasu is part of ancient Ōmi Province and the route of the Tōsandō (later the Nakasendō) highway connecting Heian-kyō with the eastern provinces passed through the area however, there were no shukuba within the city limits. Soon after, he received attention from the local media, receiving multiple awards and acclaim. Per Japanese census data, the population of Yasu doubled from 1960 to 2000 and has plateaued since then. Armed with experience, confidence, and a firm belief in his ideology of a perfect sushi restaurant, in 2014 he took the next step and opened his first namesake restaurant, YASU, in downtown Toronto it was the first Omakase sushi bar in Canada. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.3 ☌, and lowest in January, at around 3.1 ☌. The average annual rainfall is 1430 mm with September as the wettest month. The average annual temperature in Yasu is 14.5 ☌. Yasu has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. Parts of the city are within the borders of the Mikami-Tanakami-Shigaraki Prefectural Natural Park.


The city skyline is dominated by Mount Mikami, also known as "Ōmi Fuji" from its resemblance to Mount Fuji. Yasu is located in south-central Shiga Prefecture, on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa. The total area of the city is 80.14 square kilometres (30.94 sq mi). As of 1 October 2021, the city had an estimated population of 50,695 in 20695 households and a population density of 630 persons per km 2. Yasu ( 野洲市, Yasu-shi ) is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
