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Ono City History Museum
The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits historical materials from the Jomon period to modern times in Ono City. Particularly regarding the worship of Mount Hakusan, it features valuable materials and exhibits illustrating connections to the wo…
- Eiheiji, Okuetsu
Ono City Folk Museum
This museum displays folk materials that are gradually disappearing due to changing times. The building was constructed in 1889 as the Ōno Magistrate's Court and remained in use until 1967. That same year, Ōno City acquired the main building and gu…
- Eiheiji, Okuetsu
Wakasa History Museum
This center provides easy-to-understand introductions to the rich history and folk culture of the Wakasa region. As a guidance hub for the area, it offers foundational information for visiting various sites.
- Wakasa
Awara City Local History Museum
The Awara City Local History Museum is located on the second floor of "Kanazu Honjin IKOSSA," a lifelong learning complex.For details about Kanazu Honjin IKOSSA, please click here. The museum houses and displays artifacts excavated from sites that …
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Yoshizaki Temple Memorial Hall of Rennyo Shonin
Japan's only museum dedicated to cultural artifacts themed around Rennyo, cleansing both mind and body. Featuring a popular special exhibition, a museum shop selling Kyoto souvenirs, and the opportunity to float "Rennyo's Happiness Charms" down the…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Izumioka Ichigoto Shrine
As per the words of the deity Ichimon, who said "Do not build a shrine," Wakasa Town's Ichimon Shrine is a rare "shrine without a shrine building" in Japan. It is said that if you make a single wish with a pure heart and tell no one, it will come t…
- Wakasa
Echizen-cho Oda Museum of Culture and History
This complex facility houses a historical museum, library, and cultural exchange hall. The museum exhibits archaeological and documentary materials, models, and reconstructed dwellings, focusing on themes such as Echizen Ninomiya Tsurugi Shrine and…
- Tannan
Sunaba Aji-no-Kami Shrine
The main hall, built approximately 500 years ago, is a graceful shrine designated as a National Important Cultural Property. Its architecture masterfully blends Japanese, Tang, and Indian styles. The vermilion-lacquered mountain gate within the pre…
- Tannan
Tansu-cho Street
Craftsmen skilled in woodworking have lived here since the late Edo period, and around the mid-Meiji era, skilled chest-making artisans formed the core of the community, establishing Chest-Making Town. Today, over a dozen shops line the streets, in…
- Tannan
Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
A museum centered on artifacts excavated from the Tori-hama Shell Mound in Wakasa Town, focusing on Jomon culture. Inside the building, designed to resemble the belly of a clay figurine, exhibits include dugout canoes, Jomon pottery, stone tools, w…
- Wakasa
Uchibori Park
A small park beside the moat of Fukui Castle ruins. It features a restored diagram of the main keep, explanatory panels detailing the history of Fukui Castle town, and a statue depicting Yokoi Shōnan departing for Kyushu in the winter of 1858 for a…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
The Residence of the Kitamaebune Shipowner: The Ukon Family
Along National Route 305 stands the "Kitamaebune Shipowner's Residence: The Ukon Family," displaying a magnificent presence that evokes its former glory. The prosperity of the Ukon family, which owned over 30 ships at its peak, is evident in its la…
- Tannan
Showa Hall
In 1930, Mr. Tanaka Kazukichi invested his personal fortune to build the Showa Kaikan at the site of the former Waki-honjin post station as a center for social education. This three-story reinforced concrete building, groundbreaking for its time, s…
- Tannan
Eaves Workshop
Eaves Workshop is a group of Echizen lacquerware artisans inviting you to casually observe their crafting process. Through conversations with the artisans and tours of the manufacturing stages, we aim to transform each artisan's workshop into a pla…
- Tannan
Funatsu Shrine
The large torii gate standing approximately 6.5 meters tall along the approach path and the red torii gate, constructed partly of wood and partly of stone, are valuable wooden torii gates built during the mid-Edo period. The main hall, with its cyp…
- Tannan
Jizō Bridge
Once located along the old Hokuriku Highway by a river, it served as a bridge to aid travelers passing by. Legend has it that a Jizo statue, destroyed during Oda Nobunaga's invasion of Echizen, appeared in a monk's dream, instructing him to build a…
- Tannan
Echizen Ono Ladder Sweets ~ A Whimsical Stroll Through Tow…
The Sky Castle, "Echizen-Ōno Castle." At its base lies a grid-patterned castle town where samurai residences and traditional Japanese houses stand, allowing you to fully enjoy its bygone charm. With a sweets coupon, you can hop from shop to shop sa…
- Eiheiji, Okuetsu
Teramachi Street (Echizen City)
Just north of Sōja, on the road extending west from the old Hokuriku Highway, proceed west along the road in front of Kokubunji Temple to find Hikitsugi Temple at its western end. The "Shōtoku 1st Year Fuchū Map" (1711) depicts Kokubunji Temple to …
- Tannan
Site of the Tobacco Inn
In November 1867, before Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated, he met with Yuri Kōsei at this inn to discuss plans for the new government. It is said they talked late into the night about Japan's future. A stone monument was erected on the site of the i…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Fukui Prefecture Hometown Literature Museum
The Fukui Prefectural Library opened on February 1, 2015. It introduces literary works by authors connected to Fukui or depicting Fukui, alongside their original manuscripts and personal belongings, utilizing video and audio materials. It also supp…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
