We journey through the snowy landscapes of northern Fukui Prefecture in central Japan on the Echizen Railway. The local trains, which are a lifeline for residents, operate over a total distance of ...

Japan is not a country where beauty is overlooked. Many know to visit Tokyo and Osaka for high-rise city ventures. But, much like fossils and treasure, there is more beauty to be uncovered when you ...

Fukui Prefecture now enjoying a tourism ... That same year, the new Meiji government issued Japan’s first national banknotes, made from Echizen washi. The paper-making division of the Treasury ...

Japan is famed for its skilled artisans ... stations on the extended Shinkansen line – Awara Onsen Station, Fukui Station, Echizen-Takefu Station and Tsuruga Station. (Travelers can hop on ...

Daffodils sway in the sea breeze on a cliff on the Echizen coast of Fukui Prefecture ... The cold wind and rain blowing in from the Sea of Japan are said to make the flowers stiff and fragrant.

Ryoichi Matsubara, director of the Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture ... Experts were puzzled by the gender disparity in the Japan attacks because an overwhelming majority ...

Night - Mostly cloudy with a 47% chance of precipitation. Winds from ENE to E. The overnight low will be 31 °F (-0.6 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C) and a 52% chance of ...

FUKUI--The Hokuriku Shinkansen Line’s extension between Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture and Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture will open on March 16, West Japan Railway Co. (JR West ...

Fukui is home to one of Japan’s legendary blade villages ... he started his smithy in what is now Echizen, with hopes that his swords would be used as symbols of samurai culture.