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Asuwayama Burial Mounds
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.
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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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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
FukuiContemporary ArtWakasa
Lake Mikata and the Varves
Seventy thousand annual layers on the lake bed became the world standard for dating - stripes laid down by nature, displayed as such.
FukuiContemporary ArtEchizen
Daffodil Terraces of the Echizen Coast
Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea, banded white with daffodils each winter.
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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.
FukuiArchitectureAwara
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.
Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.
FukuiMuseumsObama
Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.
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Echizen Washi Village Paper and Culture Museum
A museum in Echizen Washi Village. It presents the tools of handmade papermaking and the history of the industry.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Udatsu Paper and Craft Museum
A craft hall in Echizen Washi Village. An Edo-period papermaker's house was moved here, and demonstrations are given.
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Takefu Knife Village
A shared workshop for Echizen forged blades. Fourteen makers work here, and the work can be watched.
Fukui
Echizen Old Kiln Museum
The old kiln museum in Echizen. It covers the results of excavations of medieval kiln sites.
Fukui
Wakasa Kobo
Wakasa Kobo in Obama. Visitors can try polishing Wakasa lacquer chopsticks.
Fukui
Wakasa Pearls
Pearls from Wakasa. They are cultured in Wakasa Bay and made into jewelry.
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Echizen Bamboo Dolls
Bamboo dolls from Echizen. Dolls are made by bundling finely split bamboo strips.
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Echizen Bamboo Doll Village
The bamboo doll village in Sakai. The facility has closed, and the workshop continues in a different form.
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Mikuni Chests
Chests from Mikuni. The woodworking of a place that made ship chests carried on Kitamae ships.