FukuiShrines & TemplesEchizen
Tsurugi Jinja
It holds a National Treasure temple bell. Oda Nobunaga's ancestors are said to have been priests here, and the place name Ota is the origin of the family name.
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Echizen Ware
One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.
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Fukui Ceramics Museum
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.
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Daffodil Terraces of the Echizen Coast
Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea, banded white with daffodils each winter.
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Fishing Hamlets of the Echizen Coast
Houses stacked in the narrow gap between cliff and sea, boat sheds lining the water's edge.