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Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
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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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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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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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Heisenji Hakusan Shrine
A religious city of 6,000 lodgings, now under moss - only the stone paths still run through the forest. A National Historic Site.
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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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Okamoto and Otaki Shrines
Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.
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The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
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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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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.