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Daianzenji
The funerary temple of the Matsudaira, lords of the Fukui domain. On the Senjojiki behind it stand the great stone mausolea of the lord's family.
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Shibata Jinja
It enshrines Shibata Katsuie and Lady Oichi, on the site of Kitanosho Castle.
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Ichijodani
A whole Sengoku castle town survived by being buried. Four of its gardens are Special Places of Scenic Beauty.
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Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
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Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
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Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
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Ichijodani Asakura Museum
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
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Yokokan Garden
The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.
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Fukui Castle Site
Walls of bluish Shakudani stone, quarried here and shipped as far as Hokkaido by the Kitamae ships.
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Shakudani Stone
Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.
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Asuwayama Burial Mounds
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.