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福井県 · Art & museums

Ichijodani Asakura Museum

福井市嶺北

Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.

福井県 · Art & museums

Yokokan Garden

福井市嶺北

The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

勝山市嶺北

A silver egg half-buried in the hills; among the world's three great dinosaur museums, architecture and display conceived together.

福井県 · Art & museums

Heisenji Hakusan Shrine

勝山市嶺北

A religious city of 6,000 lodgings, now under moss - only the stone paths still run through the forest.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Washi

越前市嶺北

Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Washi Village

越前市嶺北

An Edo papermaking house moved here, with craftsmen working inside it - tools, building and hands in one place.

福井県 · Art & museums

Okamoto and Otaki Shrines

越前市嶺北

Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Blades

越前市嶺北

Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Chests

越前市嶺北

Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.

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.