Important Cultural Property of Fukui
福 井 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Fukui’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
The Horiguchi Residence in Ikeda, Fukui, is an early-18th-century farmhouse using five mata-bashira, naturally forked pillars, the most in the prefecture.
Maruoka Castle's keep is Japan's only surviving keep roofed in stone, with Shakudani tuff slabs weighing up to 120 tonnes. Recent dating places it around 1628.
Mikuni's 511-metre stone breakwater, designed by Dutch engineer G. A. Escher and founded on woven brushwood, was the first such work in Japan. Completed 1882.
Myorakuji Temple Main Hall in Obama, Fukui, is a 5-by-5-bay hall with a hipped bark roof, designated in 1901. See its open roof interior, 1296 zushi, hours, access.
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