Attractions

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 …

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Awara City Local History Museum

Awara Yumeguruma Park · Yumeguruma Cafe Fuwari

At the Community Plaza, visitors can enjoy agricultural experiences, with a grassy area and restrooms available. Families with children can relax and enjoy themselves while taking in panoramic views of Lake Kitagata and Mount Hakusan from the adjac…

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Awara Yumeguruma Park · Yumeguruma Cafe Fuwari

Forest and River Walking Path

A natural walking trail stretching approximately 4 km along the Asuwa River Valley. On the riverside course, you can hear the babbling of the mountain stream and see fish swimming. On the forest course, you can enjoy seasonal flowers while listenin…

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Forest and River Walking Path

Nukase Beach (Minami-Echizen Town)

Located in the Nagashima district lined with inns and guesthouses, this beach is also convenient for lodging.

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Nukase Beach (Minami-Echizen Town)

The Great Ginkgo Tree of Myokoji Temple

The great ginkgo tree at Myōkōji Temple is a large female ginkgo located on the western side of the temple grounds and is designated as a Prefectural Natural Monument. Its trunk circumference at breast height is 5.5 meters, its branch spread is app…

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The Great Ginkgo Tree of Myokoji Temple

Minami-Echizen Cultural Center

Minami-Echizen Cultural Center

Fureai Seaside Park

A seaside park located along National Route 305. Visitors can stroll through the lawn park and fountain plaza while gazing out at the sea. Nearby, the Ukon family residence—one of the five major shipowners of the Kitamaebune merchant ships that flo…

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Fureai Seaside Park

Akatan Sand Control Dam Group

The Akatan Erosion Control Weir Complex, located on the Akagawa River flowing through Furuki, Minami-Echizen Town, consists of seven stone-built weirs and two earthen weirs constructed in the 1890s. Even after more than 100 years, it continues to f…

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Akatan Sand Control Dam Group

Hidari Castle Ruins

This mountain castle, standing at an elevation of 267 meters, was built on the hill commonly known as Atagoyama behind Imajō-juku around the late Heian period. It is located near Imajō Station and is also part of a hiking course. During the Genpei …

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Hidari Castle Ruins

Closing Bell (Nishiyama Park)

Nestled halfway up Nishiyama Park, "Kizuna Plaza" features the "Bonding Chimes," which play the melody of love. Wind chimes hang from a pyramid-shaped monument. When you place the medal enclosed with the Love Piece into the chimes, a mystical melod…

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Closing Bell (Nishiyama Park)

Fuchu Horse-Hire Road

From Takefu, where the provincial capital was located, one had to cross rugged mountains to reach the capital. However, crossing the lower mountains west of Takefu led to Minami-Echizen Town, from where it was relatively easy to reach Tsuruga by bo…

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Fuchu Horse-Hire Road

Furusato Gallery Shura

The first floor features an exhibition room, a lobby, and a Japanese-style room suitable for use as a tea ceremony room. The second floor has two exhibition rooms, which serve as display spaces for citizens' paintings, calligraphy, crafts, and othe…

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Furusato Gallery Shura

Goryo Shrine

The enshrined deity is Prince Sawara, the son of Emperor Kanmu. It is said that an imperial edict was issued to provincial governors nationwide to establish Goryo Shrines to appease the vengeful spirit of Prince Sawara, who was caught up in politic…

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Goryo Shrine

Enkyūji Temple

An ancient temple with a thousand-year history. In 1472, under the teachings of Rennyo Shonin, it converted from the Tendai sect to Jodo Shinshu. In 1575, during Oda Nobunaga's campaign against the Echizen Ikkō uprising, Enkyūji's chief priest Ryok…

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Enkyūji Temple

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

Kamiko Beach

Summer in Wakasa Bay bustles with beachgoers. After enjoying the sea to your heart's content, why not savor delicious Wakasa Bay fish at a minshuku or ryokan and fully experience the summer sea?

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Kamiko Beach

Site of the Former Residence of a Junior Feudal Retainer

Built in 1866 to house remnants of the Mito Tengu Party who had been placed under the custody of the Obama Domain. Only the surrounding stone walls remain today. On November 1, 1864, the Mito Tengu Party raised their banner at Mount Tsukuba in Hit…

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Site of the Former Residence of a Junior Feudal Retainer

Townscape and Food Pavilion Shikisai-kan Sui-getsu

The Townscape and Food Museum, developed by Obama City as part of its townscape preservation efforts, is housed in the former "Suigetsu" restaurant. Built in the early Meiji period, it served as a central restaurant in Chayamachi throughout the Mei…

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Townscape and Food Pavilion Shikisai-kan Sui-getsu

Play Park Oi

This comprehensive sports park accommodates various sports, including a gymnasium, martial arts hall, multipurpose field, baseball field, and ball game field. It also features the Yūkyūkan Hall, which can be used for stage rehearsals and performanc…

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Play Park Oi

Shōraku-ji Temple

Shōraku-ji Temple, the 32nd temple on the Wakasa Thirty-Three Kannon Pilgrimage, was founded in 764 by the monk Gyōki. It is said that Gyōki himself carved the principal image, the Sacred Kannon Bodhisattva, from sacred wood found in the mountains …

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Shōraku-ji Temple
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