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福井県 · Shrines & temples

Ochisan

越前町嶺北

The mountain where Taicho, who opened Hakusan, first trained.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Ominato Jinja

坂井市嶺北

A sacred island afloat off Tojinbo, reached by a vermilion bridge.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Happyaku Bikuni

小浜市嶺南

A cave here is said to be where a nun who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years entered her final meditation.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Uriwari no Taki

若狭町嶺南

Water so cold, they say, that it split a melon. It rises in the grounds of Tokutokuji.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Echizen Daibutsu

勝山市嶺北

Seventeen metres tall, a seated figure larger than the Great Buddha of Nara.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Tounji

大野市嶺北

A Zen temple in the castle town of Echizen-Ono.

福井県 · Tourism

Shichido Garan

永平寺町嶺北

Seven buildings joined by covered walkways. Cleaning, eating and washing are all counted as practice.

福井県 · Tourism

Ichijodani

福井市嶺北

A whole Sengoku castle town survived by being buried. Four of its gardens are Special Places of Scenic Beauty.

福井県 · Tourism

Katsuyama Hakusan

勝山市嶺北

The Echizen-side starting point for the climb up Hakusan, and also dinosaur fossil country.

福井県 · Tourism

Mikata Goko

若狭町嶺南

Five lakes that change colour. The Jomon-era varves here became a world standard measure.

福井県 · Tourism

Omizu Okuri

小浜市嶺南

On 2 March, water is sent from Unose. Ten days later it is drawn at the Omizu-tori of Todaiji in Nara.

福井県 · Tourism

Funatsu Jinja

鯖江市嶺北

Held to be the second shrine of Echizen, and the tutelary shrine of eyewear country.

福井県 · Tourism

Tojinbo

坂井市嶺北

Cliffs of columnar jointing. The name comes from a legend that an unruly monk called Tojinbo was pushed off here.

福井県 · Tourism

Dinosaur Museum

勝山市嶺北

Much of Japan's dinosaur fossil material comes from this prefecture. Fifty full skeletons on display.

福井県 · Tourism

Mikata Five Lakes

若狭町嶺南

Differences in salinity give the five lakes different colours. The varves of Lake Suigetsu are a world standard.

福井県 · Tourism

Echizen Crab

越前町嶺北

Only male snow crab is called Echizen-gani. Each carries a yellow tag.

福井県 · Tourism

Echizen Washi

越前市嶺北

A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.

福井県 · Tourism

Kumagawa-juku

若狭町嶺南

A post town on the Saba Kaido, the road that carried Wakasa fish to Kyoto.

福井県 · Tourism

Sabae Glasses

鯖江市嶺北

More than 90 percent of frames made in Japan. It began as off-season work for farmers.

福井県 · Tourism

Tsuruga Red Brick

敦賀市嶺南

Oil warehouses. This was the port town of the Europe-Asia through trains.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Fine Arts Museum

福井市嶺北

Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui City Art Museum

福井市嶺北

Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

福井市嶺北

A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.

福井県 · Art & museums

Ichijodani Asakura Family Site

福井市嶺北

A Sengoku castle town buried whole and excavated street by street; its four gardens are Places of Special Scenic Beauty.