People including children on a pier fishing and activities at a citizens' public hall in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture in Japan.

A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture in Japan. A train on a bridge over a river. A fisherman in a boat in the river. A film team leader looks out of a window of the train. A view of the city on the banks of Lake Biwa. People including children sitting on a pier fish. A board atop the entrance gate of the hall reads 'Otsu Citizens Public Hall'. People enter the hall. Children learn to paint in the hall. A teacher teaches the children to paint. Women decorate flowers in pots at flower arrangement classes. A woman pours tea in a mug. The women bow. A man carries a box and boys put chits for a lucky draw to form boy's baseball team. A man writes on a board.