# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Echizen Daibutsu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/echizen-daibutsu): Fukui, Temple. Japan's tallest seated Buddha statue (17m) inside a massive five-story pagoda temple complex, rivaling Nara's Daibutsu in scale.
- [Mikata Goko](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mikata-goko): Fukui, Landmark. Five interconnected lakes with varying salinity levels, offering panoramic views from the Rainbow Line mountain park cable car.
- [Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fukui-prefectural-dinosaur-museum): Fukui, Museum. A dinosaur museum next to one of Japan's most productive fossil beds, with over 50 mounted skeletons under a silver dome.
- [Zenigahama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/zenigahama): Fukui, Beach. A rocky cove on the Echizen Coast with a free pebble swimming beach beside the Kochomon sea arch, plus a signposted set of "Daikoku's footprints" and a tide-spouting rock at the clifftop lookout just north.
- [Gotanjoji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gotanjoji-temple): Fukui, Temple. A working Soto Zen training temple in the hills of Echizen City that became famous as the cat temple, home to around thirty rescued cats that roam the grounds freely, alongside a cat Buddha statue, cat fortune slips and a cat-themed temple seal.
- [Heisenji Hakusan Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/heisenji-hakusan-shrine): Fukui, Shrine. A serene moss-covered shrine on the ruins of one of medieval Japan's largest temple cities, famous for its emerald moss carpet and ancient cedar-lined stone approach.
- [Fukui Kodomo Kazokukan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fukui-kodomo-kazokukan): Fukui, Attraction. A large indoor play-and-learning center for children at the Umin-pia Ohi seaside complex on the Wakasa coast in Fukui, with one of Japan's biggest indoor climbing walls and ball pools, a dinosaur zone, and craft and cooking workshops.
- [Tojinbo Cliffs](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tojinbo-cliffs): Fukui, Attraction. Dramatic volcanic columnar basalt cliffs stretching one kilometer along the Sea of Japan coast, a rare geological formation.
- [Awara Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awara-onsen): Fukui, Onsen. One of Hokuriku's most famous hot spring towns, known as the 'parlor of the Kansai region' for over 140 years.
- [Echizen Coast](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/echizen-coast): Fukui, Attraction. Dramatic rocky coastline stretching along the Sea of Japan, famous for winter Echizen crab season and spectacular natural rock formations.
- [Eiheiji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/eiheiji-temple): Fukui, Temple. One of two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism, Eiheiji is an active monastery where over 100 monks train daily.
- [Maruoka Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/maruoka-castle): Fukui, Castle. One of Japan's 12 original castles, and a long-standing contender for the oldest surviving keep.
- [Eldoland](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/eldoland): Fukui, Attraction. A free family science park on the Wakasa coast run by Kansai Electric, with a tropical rainforest greenhouse, an indoor aerial adventure course, and hands-on energy and science exhibits.
- [Ichijodani Asakura Family Historic Ruins](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ichijodani-asakura-family-historic-ruins): Fukui, Historic site. The site of the Asakura clan's castle town, which Oda Nobunaga's army burned in 1573, now a 278-hectare Special Historic Site with excavated gardens, a 200-metre stretch of rebuilt street, and a prefectural museum that opened in 2022. The museum costs 700 yen; the rebuilt street is ticketed separately.
- [Michi-no-Eki Echizen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-echizen): Fukui, Michi no eki. A seaside station on Route 305 built around Echizen crab, the male snow crab Fukui is known for. A crab museum, an open-air bath facing the Sea of Japan and a local products shop share the site.

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Last updated: 2026-11-02