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Wakasa Chopsticks Hometown Museum

Wakasa Chopsticks Hometown Museum

Wakasa Chopsticks Hometown Museum is a very fun facility where you can see, buy, and experience the history and diverse designs of Wakasa-nuri chopsticks, boasting the top production volume in Japan. In addition to displaying beautiful chopsticks made by artisans, visitors can also enjoy creating their own original chopsticks. Deeply touching the skill and beauty of Japanese traditional handwork, find your own special piece as a wonderful travel memento.

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Minato Tsuruga Yamahoko Museum

Minato Tsuruga Yamahoko Museum

Minato Tsuruga Yamahoko Museum is a very gorgeous facility displaying and introducing gorgeous floats (Yama) actually used in the Tsuruga Festival, designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Exquisite decorations and historic floats overwhelm visiting travelers, letting you feel Tsuruga people's passion and pride in traditional culture.

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Tsuruga City Museum

Tsuruga City Museum

Tsuruga City Museum is a wonderful facility where you can deeply learn Tsuruga's history and culture through precious materials and beautiful buildings, having once flourished as an important international trading port on the Japan Sea side. The heavy historic building itself is a major highlight, enriching the visiting traveler's intellectual curiosity. Spend an intellectual, heart-fulfilling time tracing Tsuruga's dramatic history.

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Miyake Hikoemon Shuzo

Miyake Hikoemon Shuzo

Miyake Hikoemon Shuzo is a venerable brewery continuing since the Edo period, brewing delicious local sake using Wakasa's pure water and rice through traditional methods. Stepping into the historic brewing space and tasting supreme sake crafted by careful handwork richly stimulates the traveler's sensitivity. Spend a luxurious holiday touching the depths of traditional brewing culture.

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Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum

Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum

Miketsukuni Wakasa Obama Food Culture Museum is a wonderful facility where you can learn Wakasa's history as "Miketsukuni" (land supplying food to the imperial court) and unique food culture centered on rich seafood. Exhibits, cooking classes, and chopstick sharpening offer deep learning. Savoring food culture with all five senses is an intellectual, fulfilling tourism base.

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Obama Nishi-gumi

Obama Nishi-gumi

Obama Nishi-gumi is a very emotional district where Obama, once flourishing as Wakasa's political and economic center, preserves old townscapes, historic restaurants, and temples from the Edo period. Walking slowly through beautiful streets making you feel history's weight brings deep taste and emotion as if time-tripping to the Edo era. Spend an intellectual, luxurious holiday touching traditional Japanese architectural beauty.

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Obama City Shitsumi

Obama City Shitsumi

Obama City Shitsumi is a very emotional region facing Wakasa Bay's beautiful inlet, where old fishing village ambiance and warm people's lives still remain strongly. Walking through quiet seaside settlements lets you touch nostalgic original Japanese scenery and real lives living with the sea. Leave urban busyness and immerse in unpretentious Japanese daily beauty on a heartwarming, intellectual special travel moment.

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Seihama Coast

Seihama Coast is a very calm and scenic coast where Wakasa Bay's beautiful blue sea and white sandy beaches continue endlessly. Slowly walking on the sandy beach viewing crystal clear sea makes you forget daily busyness, gently loosening body and mind from the depths. Completely away from urban busyness, listen to wave sounds in beautiful nature for a supreme relaxation time.

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Shiroyama Park

Shiroyama Park is a wonderful park surrounded by rich nature where you can overlook Obama City's beautiful ocean and Wakasa Bay's superb views. Being a former Obama Castle site, you can enjoy strolling receiving refreshing sea breeze while feeling historical traces. Harmony of untouched nature and historic romance makes this park a supreme hidden spot to refresh body and mind.

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Aobayama Chuzanji Temple

Aobayama Chuzanji Temple

Aobayama Chuzanji Temple is a venerable old temple located on the mid-slope of sacred Mt. Aoba, breathing long history and numerous legends. Silence-wrapped precincts and historic architectures separate the visiting traveler's heart from daily life, bringing deep silence and healing. Walking along the approach path through rich green nature, deeply touch old Japanese Buddhist culture.

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Hibiki Rice Terraces

Hibiki Rice Terraces

Hibiki Rice Terraces is a very artistic and dynamic rice terrace where beautiful stone-piled fields spread in multiple layers on steep slopes facing the Japan Sea. The contrast woven by blue sea and golden paddy fields is a breathtaking superb view, conveying the beauty of Japan's original scenery itself. Changing expressions by season and time, this place is a miraculous landscape harmonizing nature and human lives.

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Lake Mikata

Lake Mikata is one of the Mikata Five Lakes, a calm and beautiful lake surrounded by rich nature. Beautiful scenery changing expressions through the seasons on the water surface gently heals the visiting traveler's heart from the depths. Strolling around the lake leisurely or savoring specialty eel dishes creates a luxurious holiday away from urban busyness. Touch the essence of Japan's proud rich natural beauty in Lake Mikata.

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Uwasu Shrine

Uwasu Shrine is a historic and very prestigious old shrine listed even in the Heian period's Engishiki Jinmeicho. Rich nature spreads in the solemn air-drifted precincts, quietly calming visiting people's hearts. In this sacred place gathering regional deep faith for long, deeply touch Japan's traditional spiritual culture and history weight, spending a special worship moment for adults.

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Thatched-roof Boat House

Thatched-roof Boat House

Thatched-roof Boat House is a very rare traditional architecture in Japan standing facing Wakasa Bay's calm inlet. The unique structure with the sea on the 1st floor and living space/fishing gear storage on the 2nd conveys people's wisdom and history living with the sea. Strolling viewing nostalgic and beautiful scenery deeply charms visiting travelers, bringing special emotion touching Japan's original landscape.

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Sekumi Fishing Port

Sekumi Fishing Port

Sekumi Fishing Port is a very emotional port where rich blessings of Wakasa Bay and lively fishing village lives breathe. Savoring fresh seafood and touching the warm atmosphere of the port brings deep satisfaction to the traveler's heart. Leaving urban busyness, touching local delicious food culture and people's livelihoods is a heart-enriching special travel moment.

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Enshoji Temple

Enshoji Temple is a very sacred and beautiful temple wrapped in deep history and silence. Walking through the solemn precincts separates the visiting traveler's heart from daily life, bringing deep meditation and healing. Completely away from urban busyness, spending quiet time in this sacred place brings new vitality and peace to the soul. Spend a special holiday for adults.

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Sekumi Observatory

Sekumi Observatory

Sekumi Observatory is a very open and beautiful observation spot where you can overlook Wakasa Bay's superb views. Blue sea and beautiful coastline strongly attract the visiting traveler's heart, teaching the greatness of nature. Leaving urban busyness, spending time feeling wind in this quiet observatory resets mind and body from the depths, bringing new vitality to the soul.

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Jomon Roman Park

Jomon Roman Park

Jomon Roman Park is a very attractive historic park where you can delightfully learn about ancient lives and history. Reconstructed ancient pit dwellings let you feel past people's lives on your skin. Completely away from urban busyness, spending time in this historic space stimulates intellectual curiosity, being a special, intellectual place for adults.

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Lake Hinuga

Lake Hinuga is one of the Mikata Five Lakes, a very mystical lake connecting to the sea. Strolling through the quiet lakeside and feeling nature's silence completely makes you forget urban busyness, bringing deep peace to the soul. Touch the essence of Japan's original landscape and natural beauty, spending a special travel moment.

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Palea Wakasa

Palea Wakasa is a very fulfilling cultural facility widely conveying Wakasa's history and culture. Beautiful architecture and rich exhibits stimulate the visiting traveler's intellectual curiosity. Touching regional people and history, for those wanting to spend a heart-enriching special holiday, it is a very attractive place.

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Mikata Ishi Kannon Bosatsu

Mikata Ishi Kannon Bosatsu

Mikata Ishi Kannon Bosatsu is a beautiful Buddha statue standing in a historic sacred place. Worshipping in a solemn atmosphere calms mind and body, bringing deep peace. Completely away from urban busyness, spending quiet time in this historic place gives new vitality to the soul. Touch Japanese traditional culture and history deeply, spending an intellectual and special travel moment here.

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Mikata Onsen Kirara-no-Yu

Mikata Onsen Kirara-no-Yu

Mikata Onsen Kirara-no-Yu is a very wonderful hot spring facility embraced by rich nature, deeply healing visiting travelers' body and mind with high-quality spring quality. Spending time viewing beautiful scenery from the bath makes you forget daily busyness, giving new vitality. For those wanting a heart-soothing special holiday, it is a very healing best place.

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Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum

Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum

Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum is a very intellectual and special museum displaying "Varve" (annual lake sediment layers) extremely precious globally. Varves engraved with earth history of tens of thousands of years strongly stimulate visiting travelers' intellectual curiosity from the depths. Completely forgetting urban busyness, pondering earth's eternal history makes your travel deeper and more memorable.

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Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum

Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum

Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum is a museum displaying materials of Torihama Shell Mound, an extremely important Jomon period ruin in Japan, allowing visitors to learn about ancient lives. This facility learning detailed ancient tools and living conditions deeply stimulates visiting travelers' intellectual curiosity. Touch the depths of Japanese history and spend an intellectual, special travel moment.

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