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Fukui (福井, [1]) is the southernmost prefecture in the Hokuriku (北陸) part of the Chubu area of Honshu, Japan.

[edit] Cities

• Fukui - seat of government in the northern part of the prefecture in Fukui Ken, and an important crossroads historically and today
• Obama - renowned for having the same name as a certain US Senator
• Ono - historic castle town
• Tsuruga - a small harbor city on both the Hokuriku Toll Road and the Hokuriku Rail Line, and home to two of the JAPCO Nuclear Power Stations
• Sakai - re-oganized in 2006 to incorporate the towns of Harue, Maruoka, Mikuni and Awara; Awara is famous for its onsens
• Sabae
• Katsuyama

[edit] Other destinations

• Echizen Coast - Echizen is famous because of Lord Echizen who served under Shogun Yoshimune, and the rocky coastline is famous for delicious crab
• Eiheiji Temple - the head temple of the Soto Zen school of Buddhism, established in 1244
• Mihama - literally "Beautiful Beach", a small ancient fishing village near Tsuruga also where apparently Oda Nobunaga, who is famous for uniting almost all of Japan under one rule, spent a night after a rough battle and thanked the locals by having a garden placed in the backyard of the fief lord's house

[edit] Understand

Although the characters for Fukui means "lucky well" (福 = lucky or fortunate 井 = well - ie. water hole), the name of the prefecture is the result of a clerical error when the city was first incorporated several hundred years ago. The name was originally meant to be 福居, pronounced the same, but meaning "luck resides here."

Fukui is directly across the Sea of Japan from the Korean Peninsula. Its harbors are frequented by Russian and Korean cargo vessels.

[edit] Talk

The dialect most spoken in Fukui now is the Kansai dialect, however several smaller dialects still persist from long ago. The Mihama dialect is like many country dialects in Chubu. The northern Fukui dialect is a very distant cousin to modern standard Japanese spoken mainly by the elderly.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By train

Fukui is on the Hokuriku Rail Line from Osaka and Kyoto.

[edit] By car

If you are able to travel by car or by bus, Fukui is accessible via the Hokuriku Tollway by car from all parts of Chubu, and several different bus lines make stops at Tsuruga and Fukui City from places like the new Chubu International Airport and Nagoya home of the 2005 World Expo.

[edit] Get around

[edit][add listing] See

[edit][add listing] Do

• Beach Activities
• Historical Sites
• Skiing and Snow boarding - Ski Jam, Izumi, Ono

[edit][add listing] Eat

Fukui is well know for its beef grown in the Wakasa area of Western Fukui Prefecture, its crabs (越前蟹 echizen-gani) which are prized for their guts called kani-miso, and for soba buckwheat noodles.

[edit][add listing] Drink

Water in Fukui comes from mountain springs, and the rice claimed as the best in Japan (although Niigata next door might dispute that). Add these two together and you'll get some excellent sake.

[edit] Get out

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