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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 Family Site
A Sengoku castle town buried whole and excavated street by street; its four gardens are Places of Special Scenic Beauty.
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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 Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
A silver egg half-buried in the hills; among the world's three great dinosaur museums, architecture and display conceived together.
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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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Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
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Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
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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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Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
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Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
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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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Echizen Lacquerware
Said to be 1,500 years old, and now making 80 percent of Japan's commercial lacquerware - lacquer as working tableware.
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Urushi no Sato Hall
The heart of the Kawada lacquer district, where each divided stage can be watched in the workshops next door.
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Glasses Museum
Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.
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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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The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
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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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Kehi Jingu
Its eleven-metre wooden torii is counted among Japan's three greatest, with Kasuga and Itsukushima.