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福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Ware

越前町嶺北

One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Ceramics Museum

越前町嶺北

On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Lacquerware

鯖江市嶺北

Said to be 1,500 years old, and now making 80 percent of Japan's commercial lacquerware - lacquer as working tableware.

福井県 · Art & museums

Urushi no Sato Hall

鯖江市嶺北

The heart of the Kawada lacquer district, where each divided stage can be watched in the workshops next door.

福井県 · Art & museums

Glasses Museum

鯖江市嶺北

Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.

福井県 · Art & museums

Myotsuji

小浜市嶺南

Its main hall and pagoda are both National Treasures - the only such buildings in the province, in perfect Kamakura proportion.

福井県 · Art & museums

Wakasa Lacquer

小浜市嶺南

Eggshell, shell and pine needles are buried in the lacquer, then ground back to reveal the pattern.

福井県 · Art & museums

Wakasa Agate Carving

小浜市嶺南

Agate heated until its colour changes, then carved and polished - a technique surviving only here.

福井県 · Art & museums

Sanchomachi, Obama

小浜市嶺南

The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.

福井県 · Art & museums

Old Buddhas of Obama

小浜市嶺南

Wakasa lay on the road between the capital and the northern sea; small temples here keep an unusual density of Heian Buddhas.

福井県 · Art & museums

Kehi Jingu

敦賀市嶺南

Its eleven-metre wooden torii is counted among Japan's three greatest, with Kasuga and Itsukushima.

福井県 · Art & museums

Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse

敦賀市嶺南

An oil store built to a foreign engineer's design, at the port where trains once connected Japan to Europe.

福井県 · Art & museums

Maruoka Castle

坂井市嶺北

One of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, and the only one roofed in split stone tiles.

福井県 · Art & museums

Mikuni Port District

坂井市嶺北

A Kitamae port whose townhouses show a gable to the street and run deep behind it.

福井県 · Art & museums

Tojinbo Cliffs

坂井市嶺北

Kilometre-long cliffs of five- and six-sided basalt columns - a formation this size exists in only three places on earth.

福井県 · Art & museums

Eiheiji

永平寺町嶺北

Dogen's Zen monastery, its seven halls stepped up a slope and linked by covered walks; one ceiling holds 230 painted panels.

福井県 · Art & museums

Ono Castle Town

大野市嶺北

On a 249-metre peak; when autumn fog fills the basin, only the keep shows above it.

福井県 · Art & museums

Imajo Post Town

南越前町嶺北

A post town on the northern highway, its continuous townhouse frontage preserving the scale of the old road.

福井県 · Art & museums

Kumagawa Post Town

若狭町嶺南

On the road that carried mackerel to Kyoto; a channel runs before every house, binding street and daily life by water.

福井県 · Art & museums

Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum

若狭町嶺南

Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.

福井県 · Art & museums

Jinguji and Unose

小浜市嶺南

A temple keeping the old fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, and still sending the water used in Nara's Omizutori rites.

福井県 · Art & museums

Shrine Carpenters of Echizen

越前市嶺北

The complex framing and carving seen at Otaki Shrine runs through temples and shrines across the province.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Castle Site

福井市嶺北

Walls of bluish Shakudani stone, quarried here and shipped as far as Hokkaido by the Kitamae ships.

福井県 · Art & museums

Shakudani Stone

福井市嶺北

Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.