Ichijodani
A whole Sengoku castle town survived by being buried. Four of its gardens are Special Places of Scenic Beauty.
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A whole Sengoku castle town survived by being buried. Four of its gardens are Special Places of Scenic Beauty.
Much of Japan's dinosaur fossil material comes from this prefecture. Fifty full skeletons on display.
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.
The heart of the Kawada lacquer district, where each divided stage can be watched in the workshops next door.
Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.
The Ichijodani Asakura Family Site Museum in Fukui. It reconstructs a castle town of the Warring States period from the results of excavation.
The Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center in Tsuruga. It conducts research using an accelerator.
The Satoyama-Satoumi Research Institute in Wakasa Town. It studies satoyama and lakes as a single whole.
The prefecture's Green Center. It researches forests and greening.