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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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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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Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
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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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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 Mikata Jomon Museum
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
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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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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
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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.
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Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.