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Wakasahiko Jinja
Divided into an upper and a lower shrine. A thousand-year-old cedar stands here.
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Happyaku Bikuni
A cave here is said to be where a nun who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years entered her final meditation.
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Omizu Okuri
On 2 March, water is sent from Unose. Ten days later it is drawn at the Omizu-tori of Todaiji in Nara.
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Wakasa Lacquer
Eggshell, shell and pine needles are buried in the lacquer, then ground back to reveal the pattern.
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Wakasa Agate Carving
Agate heated until its colour changes, then carved and polished - a technique surviving only here.
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Sanchomachi, Obama
The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
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Old Buddhas of Obama
Wakasa lay on the road between the capital and the northern sea; small temples here keep an unusual density of Heian Buddhas.
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Jinguji and Unose
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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Wakasa Kokubunji
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
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Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.