Fukui City and Eiheiji area offers tourist attractions such as Kokubunji Temple, Tojinbo, Yasaka Shrine, tourist events such as the Mitama Festival, Mikuni Hanabi Festival, Setsubun Kai, and local delicacies such as Sawayaka, Kaisendon, and Abura-age.
Fukui City and Eiheiji area is an area where you can enjoy visiting places of interest that are best enjoyed by car or by touring on a sightseeing bus. Fukui is a gourmet town, especially famous for its crab in winter, and other fresh seafood is abundant.
Among the famous sites scattered across the plains, the ruins of the Asakura clan's Ichijodani mansion are located in the east, and Eiheiji Temple is in the mountainous area northeast of Fukui City. In the eastern area of Fukui, there are many historic sites and scenic spots that make use of the mountainous terrain, and the course can be completed in a single day.
Although Fukui is known for its precision machinery industry, such as eyeglass frames, there is not much of note in the way of industry. As a tourist destination, however, there are many luxurious inns along the coast, including Tojinbo, and while you can enjoy fresh seafood from the Sea of Japan, the area is rich in food, with an abundance of wild vegetables and other mountain delicacies from the mountains.
The Fukui Children's Family Museum and Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum are popular with families, and in winter, the area turns into a mecca for winter sports such as Ski Jam Katsuyama. Speaking of winter, the "crab" that can be caught in this vicinity is exquisite, and you can enjoy "crab shabu-shabu", a crab shabu with a flower in the crab miso.
Going east to the mountains, you will find the ruins of the Ichijodani Asakura clan, one of the most famous castle towns still in existence in Japan, and famous for its integrated samurai residences. Surrounded by mountains to the east, west, and south, this perfect natural fortress has long served to protect the Asakura family.
The military chronicle "Asakura's History" describes the history of the Asakura family from generation to generation, and these artifacts can be seen at the museum. The museum also has a very interesting doll exhibit that recreates the life of a private house and the town in those days.
On the way from Fukui City, visitors can enjoy "onsen senbei" (hot spring rice crackers) and "shu-manju" (steamed buns with famous characters).
Moving northeast from the city, visitors will find Eiheiji Temple, famous for Dogen, who originally trained in the Tendai sect of Buddhism, went to Sakae, and founded the Soto sect upon his return to Japan. Eiheiji is a very simple temple, but you can feel the sacred atmosphere. It is famous for its "vegetarian cuisine," and there is even a course where ordinary people can learn how to cook it.
Matsuokaken, a long-established shop that has been in business since 1897, is known as the originator of Habutae mochi. Habutae mochi is made with simple ingredients: rice flour produced in Fukui and other areas in Japan, beet granulated sugar from Hokkaido, and starch syrup. No preservatives are used, and the mochi is made using traditional methods, resulting in a soft, refreshing sweetness. T...»
This is the store of Maeda Seika, a long-established Japanese confectionary shop established in 1954, which manufactures and sells Habutae mochi, a famous confectionary of Fukui Prefecture. The entrance to the store is decorated with dinosaurs and other objets d'art, allowing visitors to enjoy the atmosphere of a dinosaur kingdom unique to Fukui Prefecture. Upon entering the store, visitors pass...»