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Fukui Castle Mountain Village Entrance Gate

The Yamazato-guchi Gate, also known as the "Rokabashi Gate" or "Tenshudai-shitamon," is a masugata gate guarding the western side of Fukui Castle's Honmaru. From the early Edo period, the western area connecting to the Honmaru, known as the Nishi …

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Fukui Castle Mountain Village Entrance Gate

Griffith Memorial

The Fukui City Griffith Memorial Museum, which revived the Western-style residence of William Elliott Griffith (1843-1928), an American who worked as a teacher for the Fukui Domain in the early Meiji period, opened in October 2015. The city of Fuku…

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Griffith Memorial

Fukui City Museum of Natural History

A museum gathering materials on Fukui's nature under one roof. Its permanent exhibition combines actual specimens, dioramas, and videos to clearly display Fukui Prefecture's natural environment and its formation. The rooftop observation deck and te…

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Fukui City Museum of Natural History

Statue of Umeda Unbin

Umebana Unbin was born in 1815 to a family of samurai in the Obama domain and studied at the Junzōkan academy. After repeatedly criticizing the shogunate before the domain lord Sakai Tadayoshi, Unbin was expelled from the domain and became a ronin.…

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Statue of Umeda Unbin

Crafts and Historical Culture Experiences

Example: Vine Craft Experience We gather materials from the mountains and challenge ourselves to create vine crafts. ※Other Woodworking Experience, Beach Crafts, etc.

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Crafts and Historical Culture Experiences

Honkatsuji Temple

A temple of the Nichiren Shu sect. Originally founded in 810 as a Shingon sect temple, it was converted to Nichiren Shu by Saint Nichiryu in 1426. Members of the Mito Tengu Party who had surrendered to the Kaga Domain forces participating in the s…

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Honkatsuji Temple

Site of Takeda Kōunsai's Honjin (Shinbo Jinya)

On December 11, 1864 (Genji 1), the Mito Tengu Party crossed Kinome Pass and arrived at Shinbo Village (present-day Shinbo, Tsuruga City), coming face-to-face with the Kaga Domain forces encamped in Habara Village (present-day Habara, Tsuruga City)…

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Site of Takeda Kōunsai's Honjin (Shinbo Jinya)

Mito Martyrs Memorial Hall (Former Herring Warehouse)

Currently closed for relocation work. For details, please see below.Notice Regarding Relocation Work for the Mito Martyrs Memorial Hall (Former Herring Warehouse) - Tsuruga City This is one of the sixteen warehouses that housed the 823 members of t…

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Mito Martyrs Memorial Hall (Former Herring Warehouse)

Former Hokuriku Line Tunnel Complex

In 1896, the section between Tsuruga and Fukui on the former Hokuriku Line opened. Particularly challenging was the stretch between Tsuruga and Imajo, characterized by rugged mountains and steep gradients. Twelve tunnels were excavated here, eleven…

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Former Hokuriku Line Tunnel Complex

Kohama Townscape Preservation Museum

In June 2008, the Kobanishi District, an area preserving its traditional townscape, was designated as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. This museum is a traditional Kyoto-style machiya townhouse built d…

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Kohama Townscape Preservation Museum

Wakashū Ichideki Bunko

The literary museum established by author Tsutomu Mizukami, a native of Hongo Village, Oi District (present-day Oi Town), in his hometown. It features a main two-story wooden building housing a library containing Mizukami's personal collection of 2…

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Wakashū Ichideki Bunko

Sakuma Memorial Exchange Hall

Commander Tsutomu Sakuma of Submarine No. 6, whose example remains a standard for naval officers to this day. His diaries and personal effects, which convey his thoughts, are on display.

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Sakuma Memorial Exchange Hall

Shion-in Temple

The Wakasa Kannon Pilgrimage consists of 33 sites. Shion-in Temple is the 28th temple on this pilgrimage route, an ancient temple housing a sacred Kannon statue of the Rinzai sect. The 33 Kannon statues enshrined within the temple buildings were pl…

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Shion-in Temple

Karihime Shrine

Following the old road through Ooi Town's Namashōshita district leads to Kanda Himegami Shrine. To the right of the main hall stand a Japanese mulberry tree and Japanese cedars, while to the left are Japanese cedars and cherry trees. The Japanese m…

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Karihime Shrine

Ishaku-ji Temple

Soto Zen sect. The principal image is a standing statue of the Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Kannon Bodhisattva. This temple originally stood on the site of Chōei-ji Temple (in Tara-shō, Obama City), but it is said to have been relocated to its prese…

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Ishaku-ji Temple

Special Mission Ship Kantō Disaster Memorial Park

The sea off Kono usually presents a calm and tranquil face. Yet long ago, a fierce storm struck these peaceful waters. Amid blinding snow and raging waves where visibility was zero, there were those who fought desperately to save lives. On December…

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Special Mission Ship Kantō Disaster Memorial Park

Fukui Prefectural Music Hall (Harmony Hall Fukui)

Harmony Hall Fukui, the prefectural concert hall located in Imaichimachi, Fukui City, serves as a hub for promoting the prefecture's musical culture, where visitors can enjoy the sounds performed by artists from around the world. It features two ha…

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Fukui Prefectural Music Hall (Harmony Hall Fukui)

The Senko House (Tsubokawa Family Residence)

Built in the early Edo period, this is the oldest thatched-roof dwelling in Fukui Prefecture. Its front features an irimoya-style roof, while the rear has a hip-and-gable thatched roof. The exterior walls, clad in cedar bark, and the white shoji sc…

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The Senko House (Tsubokawa Family Residence)

Uga Shrine (Minami-Echizen Town)

Located at the western foot of Mt. Sannō, this shrine is listed in the Engishiki Jinmyōchō. By the late Kamakura period, it received generous patronage from the Uryū clan, lords of Somayama Castle, under whose support the shrine flourished greatly.…

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Uga Shrine (Minami-Echizen Town)

An'yoji Temple

In 1473, Asakura Takakage (Eirin), the first lord of Ichijōdani, established this temple in Ichijōdani. In 1567, it became the residence of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the 15th shogun of the Muromachi shogunate. After the fall of the Asakura clan, it was re…

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