Important cultural property

A 4.5-meter nine-tier Shakudani-stone pagoda at Ōtaniji in Echizen, dated by inscription to 1323. It marks the grave of Taichō, the monk who opened Mt. Haku.

Rebuilt in 1613 and sheltered since 1754, Kasuga Shrine's Main Hall in Sabae, Fukui, is a vermilion three-bay nagare-zukuri Important Cultural Property of Echizen.

A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Katsuyama, Fukui, built by Eiheiji carpenters for a headman. Its winged front-hall plan marks the peak of the Echizen tradition.

Completed in 1927, the Former Owada Bank in Tsuruga, Fukui, combined banking floors with a public dining hall and assembly room. It now houses the city museum.

Kehi Jingū's vermilion Great Torii in Tsuruga, Fukui, dates to 1645. Nearly 11 m tall, it survived the raid that burned the shrine and is now its oldest building.

At the north end of Jinguji in Obama, Fukui stands a late Kamakura gate of cypress shingles, its guardian figures inscribed with a date far younger than the timber.

Rebuilt in 1553 by the Echizen warlord Asakura Yoshikage, this Important Cultural Property in Obama, Fukui hangs a Shinto rope at its door and holds kami scrolls.

Rebuilt in 1491 and designated in 1941, the cypress-bark main hall of Suwa Azuki Shrine in Ikeda Town, Fukui, is often called the prefecture's oldest shrine hall.

Founded in 1658 as the Matsudaira mortuary temple, Daianji in Fukui City has five halls designated in 2008 and is midway through a repair campaign you can watch.

A late-Edo farmhouse of about 1809, moved to a park in Echizen, Fukui. Its sideways-T plan with two projecting wings is the most developed of this regional farmhouse form.

Fukui's oldest farmhouse, known as Senko no Ie, raised on hand-hewn chestnut posts, three of them forked matabashira, with an irimoya front and a hipped rear roof.

Rebuilt in 1447 by a northern warlord, Hagaji's Main Hall in Obama is a mid-Muromachi esoteric hall, an Important Cultural Property with a tenth-century Kannon.

The Former Hashimoto Residence in Ono, Fukui, is an early-18th-century farmhouse with snow-country framing, a large earthen-floored niwa, and rare earth-seated rooms.

On a forested Wakasa mountainside near Obama, the 1489 main hall of Hanjo-ji is an Important Cultural Property keeping an older, sturdy style of timber carpentry.

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.

Discover the Arima Family Mausoleum at Bairinji Temple in Kurume, Fukuoka—five mausoleum buildings designated as Important Cultural Properties, built between 1630 and 1655 by the lords of Kurume Domain. Explore samurai heritage, Zen spirituality, and plum blossoms in one remarkable site.

Located in eastern Fukuoka City, the Main Hall of Kashii-gu is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, rebuilt in 1801 by the 10th lord of the Fukuoka domain. It is the sole surviving example of the unique "Kashii-zukuri" architectural style, enshrining Emperor Chūai and Empress Jingū. As one of only 16 imperially commissioned shrines in Japan, it preserves 1,800 years of sacred history.

Sakurai Shrine in Itoshima keeps its 1632 main hall, worship hall, and gate before a sacred cave from 1610, listed as an Important Cultural Property in 2023.