7 Sights in Fukui, Japan (with Map and Images)

Fukui Prefectural Library is a public library located in Shimobamachi, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. The facility also houses the Fukui Prefectural Archives and the Fukui Prefectural Hometown Literature Museum.

Wikipedia: 福井県立図書館 (JA)

Fukui Castle is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of Kitanoshō Castle , after an earlier castle built by Shibata Katsuie, over whose ruins it is partly built.

Wikipedia: Fukui Castle (EN)

Sansha Shrine is a shrine located in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Originally, it was called "Sake Shrine" (Saketoke-), but after the Meiji Restoration, the name was changed to "Sansha Shrine".

Wikipedia: 三社神社 (福井市) (JA)

Jizo-in is a Soto Zen temple located to the northwest of Yasuhara-cho in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. The main deity is the eleven-faced Kannon, which is the original Buddha of the sake deity, Saketake no Kami, among the four deities of Umenomiya Shrine. The mountain name is Kongōzan, and it is a famous temple known as Jizo-in, which was also a place of prayer for the Matsudaira clan of Echizen. The Kannon is worshipped as the Koyasu Kannon, and on the temple's festival days in February and July, people come to pray for childbirth and to give thanks.

Wikipedia: 地蔵院 (福井市) (JA)

Shinmei Shrine is a Shinmei Shrine located in Hoei, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The former shrine was a prefectural shrine, and now it is a separate shrine of the shrine main office. It is commonly known as Oshinmei-san. Enshrine Amaterasu.

Wikipedia: 神明神社 (福井市) (JA)

The Fukui City Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located in Asuwagami, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In addition, a branch library (Seiren Planet) is located on the 5th floor of Hapirin in front of Fukui Station.

Wikipedia: 福井市自然史博物館 (JA), Website

Izumo Taisha Fukui Branch (Izumo Taisha Fukui Bunin) is a shrine located in Ichibuchi, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines the spirits of Izumo Taisha's deity and the Great Nation Lord Ōkami, known as the "God of Marriage" and "God of Fortune". As an Izumo Taisha religion, he was solicited in the Hokuriku area in Showa 29.

Wikipedia: 出雲大社福井分院 (JA)