Best Tourist Spots In Fukui
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Mikata Five Lakes is designated in the Ramsar Convention. Rainbow Line Park in the mountain top is known as a love sanctuary, and you can lock your love and have a fine view.
Name
Rainbow Line
Address
Kiyama Wakasa-cho, Mikatakaminaka-gun, FukuiGoogle Map
Tel
0770-45-2678
How to get there
Tojinbo is one of the popular spots in Fukui. 20 meters columnar joint facing to the Sea of Japan is the wonderful modeling of nature. You must feel weak at the knees when you stand on the edge.
Name
Tojinbo
Address
Mikuni-cho, Sakai-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
Katsuyama, Fukui is proud of the biggest number of fossils in Japan. Katsuyama Dino Park, you can meet the dinosaurs in the real sizes. Entering the woods, dinosaur's voices hear from somewhere, and you feel like being the age of them.
Name
Katsuyama Dinosaur Park
Address
51-11 Terao Muroko-cho, Katsuyama-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
Tel
0779-88-8777
Hours
7:00-20:00
In Ichijodani surrounded with rich nature, Asakura Site is a castle town where five generations of Asakura Family had ruled the Echizen Region for 103 years during the age of wars. In the restored town, you can enjoy walking around and seeing the old-time architectures like samurai houses.◎Near the Asakura Yoshikage Museum, the restored town, though it require the entrance fee, is nice to see the old time townscape. Within the limited terms, the direct bus was available from Eihei-ji Temple to Ichijodani Asakura Site.
Name
Ichijodani Asakura Site
Address
Kidonouchi-cho, Fukui-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 10 min from Fukui IC. 15 min on foot from Ichijodani Station. By bus, 25 min from JR Fukui Station to Fukugen Machinami (Restored Town).
Eihei-ji Temple itself is beautiful, and its ceiling picture of a large hall called Sanshokaku is specially worth seeing! You can experience hand-copying of sutra (shakyo) and Buddhism meditation (zazen).
Name
Eiheiji Temple
Address
5-15 Shihi Eiheiji-cho, Yoshida-gun, FukuiGoogle Map
Tel
0776-63-3102
Hours
8:00-17:30
How to get there
By car, 10 min from Eiheiji Sando IC. By bus, 30 min from Fukui Station to Eiheiji
Parking
Free parking area is available
We can aim for the beautiful reflection on Karikomi Pond in the early morning. The lively autumn colors around the pond, and winter mountain presence above it. Though it needs a little walk, you can enjoy both beautiful water-mirror and change of seasons at this photogenic pond!◎50 min trekking is required from the parking area. The roadway is narrow and there're some cars parking on the roadsides, so driving beginners should use taxi.
Name
Karikomi-ike Pond
Address
Kamiuchinami, Ono-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
How to get there
90 min by car from Fukui Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Name
Nihonkai Sakanamachi
Address
1-1531 Wakaba-cho, Tsuruga-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
Tel
0770-24-3800
Hours
10:00-18:00
At the same time as Fukui Sakura Festival, the row of cherry blossom trees beside Asuwa River is very much talked about as the largest scale of cherry blossom tunnel, which is 2,2 km long and has 600 sakura trees. You can walk along the illuminated cherry blossoms and under the fantastic pink tunnel at night.◎It's one of the 100 best places of cherry blossom in Japan. Fukui Sakura Festival in 2018: 3/31-4/15. Light up: 18:00-21:30.
Name
Asuwa River
Address
Asuwakami-cho, Fukui-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min walk from JR Fukui Station. 15 min by car from Fukui IC.
Maruoka Castle Naked Projection Mapping Night Hikari Knot ~ ~ Future Imagination ~ ~ 15 minutes from 20:00 to the extent that you forget to blink. Strong thoughts have been gathered and transmitted. When the chorus of a local junior high school student started, tears suddenly overflowed. Don't miss the beautiful castle night. It is filled with the thoughts of Sakai City and local students.
Name
Maruoka Castle
Address
1−59 Maruoka-cho, Sakai-shi, Fukui, HokurikuGoogle Map
Tel
0776-66-0303
Fee
Adult 450 yen、Child 150 yen
How to get there
10 min by car, from Maruoka Station
A spring event in Fukui Prefecture, there're 140 lumps of Japanese candle on Atado-zaka and slopes beside. The stone steps are lit up and become visionary. At Asuwa Shrine on the top of the steps, 370 years cherry blossom tree are beautifully lit up!◎Event date in 2018: 3/31-4/15. Illumination time: 18:30-21:30
Name
Atado-zaka Slope
Address
1-8-5 Asuwa, Fukui-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min by bus from JR Fukui Station to Kubo-cho
Pretty Cats, Beautiful Lotus Flowers. A Comfortable 'CatTemple' With Human KindnessGotanjo-ji Temple
About 2 hours from Nagoya or Kyoto. Near Takefu Interchange of Hokuriku Freeway, there's a temple of Soto sect. Cats living here are protected carefully by members of the temple and cat-lovers. Please don't make noises and go after, but you can see them and feel relieved.
The exhibition of Mika Ninagawa & Hiroko Ninagawa at Kanaz Forest Of Creation. We can take pictures of these beautiful flowers. It's very wonderful world.
Name
Kanaz Forest Of Creation
Address
57-2-19 Miyadani, Awara-shi, FukuiGoogle Map
Tel
0776-73-7800
Hours
9:00-17:00
Closed
Mon
How to get there
3 min by car or taxi from Hosorogi Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Minami Echizen Cho is proud of the biggest number of lotus flower production in Japan. In the large garden of 3300㎡, they grown 130 kinds of lotus flowers. The best season of blooming flowers is the beginning of July. In this season, a good fragrances of lotus flowers envelop the garden in the early morning.
