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Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse
An oil store built to a foreign engineer's design, at the port where trains once connected Japan to Europe.
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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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Kumagawa Post Town
On the road that carried mackerel to Kyoto; a channel runs before every house, binding street and daily life by water.
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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.
Echizen
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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Shakudani Stone
Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.
Katsuyama
Textile Mills of Katsuyama
A habutae silk town whose brick and saw-tooth mills survive, some converted into exhibition space.
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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
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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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Wakasa Kokubunji
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
Ono
Shichiken Morning Market, Ono
A market held on the same street since the 1580s, the goods still laid straight on the ground.
Echizen
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.
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Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.
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Kiyoharu Art Colony
On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.
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Itchiku Kubota Art Museum
The home of a dyer who independently revived tsujigahana dyeing, which appeared from the Muromachi to Momoyama periods; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.
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Mt Fuji World Heritage Center
Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.
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Fujimura Memorial Hall
An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with balcony and drum tower - local carpenters' reading of Western form.