Travel Destinations in Fukui

Echizen Daibutsu

Echizen Great Buddha at Seidaiji Temple

Japan's tallest seated Buddha statue (17m) inside a massive five-story pagoda temple complex, riv...

Mikata Goko

Mikata Five Lakes & Rainbow Line Summit Park

Five interconnected lakes with varying salinity levels, offering panoramic views from the Rainbow...

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

A dinosaur museum next to one of Japan's most productive fossil beds, with over 50 mounted skelet...

Zenigahama

Zenigahama Beach, Daikoku's Footprints and the Tide-Spouting Rock

A rocky cove on the Echizen Coast with a free pebble swimming beach beside the Kochomon sea arch,...

Gotanjoji Temple

Gotanjoji Temple: Echizen's Cat Temple

A working Soto Zen training temple in the hills of Echizen City that became famous as the cat tem...

Heisenji Hakusan Shrine

Heisenji Hakusan Shrine - Japan's Most Beautiful Moss Garden

A serene moss-covered shrine on the ruins of one of medieval Japan's largest temple cities, famou...

Fukui Kodomo Kazokukan

Fukui Kodomo Kazokukan Children's Center

A large indoor play-and-learning center for children at the Umin-pia Ohi seaside complex on the W...

Tojinbo Cliffs

Dramatic volcanic columnar basalt cliffs stretching one kilometer along the Sea of Japan coast, a...

Echizen Coast

Dramatic Rocky Coastline and Crab Country

Dramatic rocky coastline stretching along the Sea of Japan, famous for winter Echizen crab season...

Awara Onsen

One of Hokuriku's most famous hot spring towns, known as the 'parlor of the Kansai region' for ov...

Maruoka Castle

One of Japan's 12 original castles, and a long-standing contender for the oldest surviving keep.

Eiheiji Temple

Eiheiji Zen Temple

One of two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism, Eiheiji is an active monastery where over 100 monks...

Eldoland

Wakasa Takahama Eldoland Science Park

A free family science park on the Wakasa coast run by Kansai Electric, with a tropical rainforest...