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福井県 · Regional selections

Nihonkai Sakana-machi

若狭路

Souvenir shops for seafood stand alongside restaurants serving it.

福井県 · Regional selections

Shiroyama Park

若狭路

The site of Takahama Castle, with one of the eight sea caves of Takahama cut by the waves.

福井県 · Regional selections

氣比神宮

若狭路

The first shrine of Echizen, honouring Emperor Chuai and five other deities, with one of Japan's three great wooden torii.

福井県 · Regional selections

Fukui Children's Family Center

若狭路

Has a climbing wall 16 metres high, among the largest indoors in Japan.

福井県 · Regional selections

Angel Line

若狭路

A drive up Mount Kusuyagatake.

福井県 · Regional selections

Sea Park Nyu

若狭路

Fish taken in set nets are released into pens for you to catch.

福井県 · Regional selections

Elgaia Oi

若狭路

An energy learning centre with one of the largest virtual-image theatres in the world.

福井県 · Regional selections

Sotomo

若狭路

Sea caves on the north side of the Uchitomi peninsula, with about six kilometres of cliffs.

福井県 · Regional selections

Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum

若狭路

Displays the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, 70,000 years of banded layers.

福井県 · Regional selections

Yaobikuni Nyujo Cave

若狭路

A cave holding the legend of Yaobikuni, who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years.

福井県 · Regional selections

敦賀赤レンガ倉庫

若狭路

Old warehouses on the quay of Tsuruga port.

福井県 · Regional selections

Hiruga Sea Fishing Pond

若狭路

A fishing pond run by the fishermen's cooperative, stocked with sea bream and flounder from their set nets.

福井県 · Regional selections

Roadside Station Mikata Five Lakes

若狭路

A roadside station on the Mikata Five Lakes, in the largest plum-growing district on the Sea of Japan coast.

福井県 · Regional selections

Wakasa Obama Fish Center

若狭路

A wholesale market where the general public may buy.

福井県 · Regional selections

Jomon Roman Park

若狭路

Holds the Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum, a building shaped after the belly of a clay figure, showing dugout canoes and other finds from Jomon sites.

長野県 · Regional selections

Sugadaira Kogen Snow Resort

松本市

The oldest surviving keep of five roofs and six floors in Japan. It began as Fukashi Castle in the Warring States period, and its black and white stan…

長野県 · Regional selections

Hokushin Taxi

長野市

About 1,400 years old. Its principal image, a triple Amida under one halo, is held to be the oldest Buddhist statue in Japan. The main hall, rebuilt i…

長野県 · Regional selections

Hoshina Onsen

松本市

Within Chubu-Sangaku National Park, a special national scenic site and natural monument. From the Kappa bridge you see the Azusa River and the Hotaka …

長野県 · Regional selections

Kita-Alps Tembo Ikeda Shokudo Shinkukan

大町市

A hundred kilometres from Omachi to Toyama, crossing the Northern Alps by a chain of vehicles.

長野県 · Regional selections

Ourai

松本市

Uplands at 2,000 metres. Cattle graze in summer, and the view runs to the Northern Alps, Mount Asama, the Southern Alps and Mount Fuji.

長野県 · Regional selections

Farmhouse Inn Refugio Lapas

上田市

An old spring called the Kamakura of Shinshu, with national treasures and important cultural properties gathered around it.

長野県 · Regional selections

Hokusai Museum Higashimachi Parking Lot

小諸市

Komoro Castle, abolished in 1871, was bought back by former retainers and made a park, designed by Seiroku Honda.

長野県 · Regional selections

Hokusai Museum Parking Lot

長野市

Built by Takeda Shingen as his base for the battles of Kawanakajima, later the seat of the Sanada. Gate and stone walls have been rebuilt.

長野県 · Regional selections

Municipal Matsumura Parking Lot

松本市

Opened in 1873 and newly built in 1876 in quasi-Western style. An octagonal tower rises at its centre; it is a national treasure as school architectur…