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A Brief Note: The Museum of Japan's Shortest Letters
The "One-Stroke Letter: Japan's Shortest Letter Museum" has opened, showcasing past winning entries from the One-Stroke Letter Contest for Japan's Shortest Letter. The centerpiece of the permanent exhibition room, "FUMI NO TAKI," is a video install…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
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 Fukui…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Ichijodani Asakura Family Site Museum
The Ichijodani Asakura Family Site Museum has opened, offering visitors the chance to learn about the full picture and historical value of the once-prosperous Asakura clan's Sengoku-period (the 'Warring States" period of Japanese histo…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Fujino Gankuro Memorial Museum
This memorial hall commemorates the sister city agreement signed in 1983 between Awara City (formerly Awara Town) and Shaoxing City in China's Zhejiang Province. The former residence of the Fujino family, located in Mikuni-cho, was donated by the f…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Jomon Roman Park
Jomon Roman Park offers an experience of ancient romance. The Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum, housed in a building designed to resemble the belly of a clay figurine, displays artifacts excavated from Jomon-period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE) sites, including d…
- Wakasa
Fukui Prefectural Museum of History
From ancient times to the present day, Fukui's history is displayed in an easy-to-understand manner. Highlights include the "History Zone," where you can trace Fukui's history through visually engaging exhibits like authentic materials and full-sca…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Echizen Ceramic Village Cultural Exchange Hall
A facility serving as a stage for more people to enjoy culture amidst nature and beautiful surroundings, also available for various cultural and artistic activities. Particularly at the coffee corner, where you can enjoy coffee from your favorite c…
- Tannan
House of Learning
In addition to works by animation artist Kuri Yōji and Western-style painter Shinichi Nishiyama, the museum features a permanent exhibition room where visitors can learn about Sabae's transformation and history from ancient times to the early moder…
- Tannan
Angel Land Fukui
This interactive facility is headed by astronaut Mamoru Mori as its honorary director. In the exhibition area, visitors can have fun learning about the principles of space and science through seven themes, including numbers, shapes, and force. The …
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Echizen Washi Village Uritate Craft Museum
This craft museum, with its rare udatsu-style gabled roof that creates an atmosphere befitting the village of washi paper, allows visitors to observe traditional craftsmen using old-fashioned tools to make washi paper. To create high-quality washi,…
- Tannan
Murasaki Shikibu Park
Echizen City is the place where Murasaki Shikibu, the author of *The Tale of Genji*, lived away from the capital for the only time in her life.It is said that she visited here with her father, Fujiwara no Tameoki, who had been appointed governor of…
- Tannan
Fukui City History Museum
The Fukui City History Museum offers visitors a look at the history of Fukui. Exhibits on display include items found buried in ancient tombs, and animations that show the World War II air raids of Fukui. Hands-on workshops are available.The perman…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Echizen Knife Kaikan
Echizen Forged Blades continues to uphold Japan's ancient fire-forging techniques and hand finishing to this day. Here, we introduce the 700-year history and manufacturing process of Echizen Forged Blades through panel displays and videos. Prod…
- 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
Fukui City Art Museum (Art Lab Fukui)
The Fukui City Art Museum houses and exhibits works by Hiroatsu Takada, a sculptor with ties to our city who spent the turbulent period around World War II in France. Centered on Takada, who cultivated friendships with a wide range of cultural figu…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Manyo Village Ajinomonoen Museum Manyo Hall
Echizen City's Ajimano is known as the setting for the tragic love songs of Nakatomino Yakamori, exiled here from the Heijō capital, and Sano no Otogami no Otome, who longed for him in the capital. Additionally, Echizen City serves as the backdrop …
- Tannan
Fukui City Atagozaka Tea Ceremony Art Museum
This exhibition clearly introduces the history of tea ceremony in Fukui City through four sections: an overview of tea ceremony history using a chronological table; the tea ceremony of the Warring States period revealed by research at the Asakura C…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
At Home Science Museum (Fukui Nuclear Energy Center)
A science museum where you can experience hands-on learning about nuclear power, energy, and electricity. In addition to nuclear power and electricity, you can experience exhibits packed with knowledge and information about energy, the environment,…
- Wakasa
Traditional Performing Arts Hall
Located within Awara Onsen Yumachi Plaza, it serves as a public practice venue for Awara geisha. Visitors can also experience geisha and maiko transformation sessions and participate in traditional geisha entertainment experiences. (Reservations re…
- Awara,Sakai,Fukui
Yumeole Katsuyama Textile Factory Museum
Yumeole Katsuyama is a museum dedicated to Katsuyama’s history of making silk fabric. Visitors can see the large old machines that were once used to weave silk, or try hands-on experiences such as weaving a coaster using a hand loom, or makin…
- Eiheiji, Okuetsu
