Eiheiji · Place · candidate to visit
Shichido Garan
Seven buildings joined by covered walkways. Cleaning, eating and washing are all counted as practice.
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Fukui travel guide
Eiheiji is still a working monastery, where Dogen taught that cleaning and eating are practice too. Sabae makes over 90% of Japan's spectacle frames; Echizen crab, Tojinbo, and seven designated crafts including Echizen lacquerware. Fukui, explained.
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Fukui · Place · candidate to visit
Ichijodani
A whole Sengoku castle town survived by being buried. Four of its gardens are Special Places of Scenic Beauty.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityWakasa · Place · candidate to visit
Mikata Goko
Five lakes that change colour. The varves of Lake Suigetsu became a world standard measure.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityShrines & temples
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Eiheiji · Place · candidate to visit
Eiheiji
It is still a working training monastery. Dogen taught that not only zazen but cleaning, eating and washing the face are all practice. His Tenzo Kyokun sets out how to think about kitchen work, and its root is the same as the craftsman's work we have been following in this series.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityTsuruga · Place · candidate to visit
Kehi Jingu
Its great torii, eleven metres high, is counted with Itsukushima in Aki and Kasuga Taisha in Nara as one of the three great wooden torii of Japan.
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Fukui · Crafts & industry entry
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.
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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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Papyrus House
Papyrus House in Echizen Washi Village. Visitors can try papermaking.
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Fukui · Place · candidate to visit
Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityFukui · Place · candidate to visit
Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityFukui · Place · candidate to visit
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
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Fukui · Place · candidate to visit
Takefu Knife Village
A shared workshop for Echizen forged blades. Fourteen makers work here, and the work can be watched.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityFukui · Place · candidate to visit
Outdoor Dinosaur Museum
Opened in July 2014 at Japan's largest dinosaur fossil dig.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityFukui · Place · candidate to visit
Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum
Displays the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, 70,000 years of banded layers.
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