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- Awara Onsen — Ashiyu Born in 1883 from an irrigation well: today 74 springs, from 33 to 77 degrees.
- Echizen Matsushima Aquarium You walk on the glass of the ‘coral sea’ with fish swimming beneath your feet.
- Echizen Ōno Castle (‘castle in the sky’) On misty dawns from October to April, the castle seems to hang above a sea of clouds.
- Eihei-ji Seventy buildings in the complex, nineteen of them Important Cultural Properties: Zen since 1244.
- Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Fifty mounted skeletons: one of the three great dinosaur museums in the world.
- Fukui Yataimura Ten eateries under the station's north underpass, open only after 17:00.
- Heisenji Hakusan Shrine About 120 species of moss cover the path: snow and humidity make it possible.
- Kehi no Matsubara Seventeen thousand pines, 85% of them red pine: rare on Japanese coasts.
- Kehi Shrine Of Japan's three great wooden torii, the red one here dates from 1645 and has held out since '45.
- Maruoka Castle Collapsed in the 1948 earthquake, rebuilt in 1955: now it is closing again until 2027.
- Mikata Lakes (Rainbow Line) Five lakes, five colours: fresh, brackish and salt water side by side.
- Obama Hōjō-e Since 1638, twelve of Obama's twenty-four neighbourhoods have taken turns to parade each year.
- Oshima Island (Sakai) A 224 m bridge leads to the island where the magnetism of the rocks sends the compass haywire.
- Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum Six thousand Jewish refugees landed here in 1940–41 with Sugihara's visas.
- Seibu Fukui (だるまや) Founded in 1928 by a man who, his fellow townspeople said, looked like a daruma.
- Shibamasa World Its loop slide holds a 2005 Guinness record for the longest drop in the world.
- Tojinbo Rock columns 25 metres high: a formation found on only three coasts in the world.
- Yōkōkan Garden The pavilion from 1699 stands almost entirely in the pond: in 2016 it ranked fifth in Japan.