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Echizen Washi
A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.
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Kumagawa-juku
A post town on the Saba Kaido, the road that carried Wakasa fish to Kyoto.
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Tsuruga Red Brick
Oil warehouses. This was the port town of the Europe-Asia through trains.
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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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Heisenji Hakusan Shrine
A religious city of 6,000 lodgings, now under moss - only the stone paths still run through the forest. A National Historic Site.
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Okamoto and Otaki Shrines
Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.
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The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
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Kehi Jingu
Its eleven-metre wooden torii is counted among Japan's three greatest, with Kasuga and Itsukushima.
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Maruoka Castle
One of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, and the only one roofed in split stone tiles.
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Mikuni Port District
A Kitamae port whose townhouses show a gable to the street and run deep behind it.
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Ono Castle Town
On a 249-metre peak; when autumn fog fills the basin, only the keep shows above it.
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Imajo Post Town
A post town on the northern highway, its continuous townhouse frontage preserving the scale of the old road.
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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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Shrine Carpenters of Echizen
The complex framing and carving seen at Otaki Shrine runs through temples and shrines across the province.
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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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Textile Mills of Katsuyama
A habutae silk town whose brick and saw-tooth mills survive, some converted into exhibition space.
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Kanegasaki
A cliff-top fortress over the bay, fought for again and again as the link between the northern sea and Kyoto.
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Shichiken Morning Market, Ono
A market held on the same street since the 1580s, the goods still laid straight on the ground.
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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.
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Awara Onsen
A Meiji spa town whose large wooden inns still use Echizen lacquer and paper inside.
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Murasaki Shikibu Park
Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.