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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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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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Tojinbo Cliffs
Kilometre-long cliffs of five- and six-sided basalt columns - a formation this size exists in only three places on earth.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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