Awara - Sakai - Fukui
Saiko-ji Temple
The mortuary temple of Katsuie Shibata and his wife Oichi.
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Tojinbo Cliffs
Sheer cliffs dropping to the Sea of Japan, known as a setting for television mysteries.
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Shibata Shrine
Where Katsuie Shibata and Oichi met their end. Nobunaga granted Katsuie 490,000 koku, and he built his castle here.
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Shibamasa World
A 560,000-square-metre leisure park above the Sea of Japan. A dinosaur zone was added in 2024.
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Fukui Castle Ruins
The castle built by Hideyasu Yuki, second son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Stone walls and moat remain.
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Ichijodani Asakura Family Site
The castle-town site of five generations of the Asakura, spanning about a century, some ten kilometres southeast of Fukui City.
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Maruoka Castle
Built in 1576 by Katsutoyo, nephew of Katsuie Shibata. One of the twelve surviving castle keeps.
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Echizen Matsushima Aquarium
A hands-on aquarium for looking, touching and learning.
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Mikuni Minato Retro
A port town that prospered on the kitamaebune trade, with latticed townhouses and traces of its merchant wealth.
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Miyanoshita Cosmos Hiroen
Some 100 million cosmos flowers over grounds more than four times the size of Tokyo Dome.
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Kunimi Kurage Community Center
A small aquarium made from a community hall on the Echizen coast.
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Koya Kokuryu Shrine
Founded as guardian deity of the Kuzuryu River, counted among Japan's four ancient great deities.
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Fukui Station West Exit Plaza
A plaza where dinosaur robots move, at the west exit of Fukui Station.
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Awara Onsen Town
Opened in 1883 and long called the inner parlour of the Kansai region.
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WOW RIDE Ikossa! Fukui XR Bus
A sightseeing bus on which you experience a virtual world while travelling.
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Hoko Island
A rock island on the Echizen coast, known as a place to watch the sunset.
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Yokokan Garden
The villa of the Matsudaira lords of the Fukui domain. A national scenic site built around a large pond.
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Ancient Life Museum
On the Echizen coast, showing jellyfish alongside fossils and taxidermy.
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Awara Onsen Ashizu
A footbath built entirely of cypress, using Shakudani stone quarried in Fukui.
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Asuwayama Park
A hill 116.4 metres high, with burial mounds and a statue of Emperor Keitai, who laid the foundations of Fukui.
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Ichijo Falls
A 17-metre waterfall, said to be where Kojiro Sasaki trained.
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Awara Onsen Grandia Housen
An inn at Awara Onsen, now sixty years in business.
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Reconstructed Townscape, Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins
A Warring States castle town rebuilt on the evidence of the excavations.