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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Shakudani Stone

福井市 嶺北

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

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Asuwayama Burial Mounds

福井市 嶺北

Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.

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Textile Mills of Katsuyama

勝山市 嶺北

A habutae silk town whose brick and saw-tooth mills survive, some converted into exhibition space.

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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum

敦賀市 嶺南

The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.

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Lake Mikata and the Varves

若狭町 嶺南

Seventy thousand annual layers on the lake bed became the world standard for dating - stripes laid down by nature, displayed as such.

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Daffodil Terraces of the Echizen Coast

越前町 嶺北

Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea, banded white with daffodils each winter.

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Kanegasaki

敦賀市 嶺南

A cliff-top fortress over the bay, fought for again and again as the link between the northern sea and Kyoto.

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Wakasa Kokubunji

小浜市 嶺南

One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.

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Shichiken Morning Market, Ono

大野市 嶺北

A market held on the same street since the 1580s, the goods still laid straight on the ground.

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Fishing Hamlets of the Echizen Coast

越前町 嶺北

Houses stacked in the narrow gap between cliff and sea, boat sheds lining the water's edge.

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Awara Onsen

あわら市 嶺北

A Meiji spa town whose large wooden inns still use Echizen lacquer and paper inside.

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Murasaki Shikibu Park

越前市 嶺北

Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.

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Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama

勝山市 嶺北

Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.

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Obama Food Culture Museum

小浜市 嶺南

On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.

福井県 · Industry & crafts

Inside 越前漆器: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 福井県

越前漆器 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 福井県's 漆器・国指定工芸. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, skills, …

福井県 · Industry & crafts

Inside うるしの里会館: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 福井県

うるしの里会館 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 福井県's 漆器・産地展示. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, skills…