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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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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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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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Sanchomachi, Obama
The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
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Old Buddhas of Obama
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.
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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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Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
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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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Shakudani Stone
Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.