Tsuruga Port Tourist Information

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Tsuruga Port Tourist Information http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/cruise/

Sauce Katsu-Don

Katsu-don in Fukui Prefecture refers to Sauce Katsu-don; that which is topped with a beaten egg is called Egg Katsu-don. Sauce Katsu-don consists of a thin slice of pork loin coated with special fine breadcrumbs and deep fried, then dipped in Fukui's secret sauce and topped on rice. The sweet and sour flavor is guaranteed to suit everyone's palate.

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Access 25 min. walk from port(2.0km)

Season Year-round

Sauce Katsu-Don Related links http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places/food.html

Contact Us[ Tsuruga Tourist Information Center ] TEL:+81-770-21-8686 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website: http://www.turuga.org/

Tsuruga Ramen

In 1950,Tsuruga Ramen was started from a food cart in front of Tsuruga station.Even now, Ramen food cart and shops are open from 8 pm to around 2 pm around Honmachi-street near the station.Tsuruga Ramen has soup taken with pig bones and chicken basses basically.Please enjoy delicious Tsuruga Ramen and eat it.

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Access 40 min. walk from port(3.0km)

Season Year-round

Tsuruga Ramen Related links http://www.turuga.org/places/ramen/ramen.html

Contact Us[Tsuruga Tourist Information Center ] TEL:+81-770--21-8686 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website: http://www.turuga.org/index.html

Grilled Mackerel Sushi

Fukui's specialty sushi is topped with fresh fatty mackerel grilled whole. Cooking the mackerel removes excess fat and the fishy smell, and doubles the flavor. With a light aftertaste, it is the perfect complement to vinegared rice. In Fukui, grilled mackerel sushi is a standard item in supermarkets, in sushi-go-round restaurants and izakaya bars.

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Season Year-round Grilled Mackerel Sushi Related links https://www.fuku-e.com/040_souvenir/detail.php?itemid=1 07&kwd Contact Us[ Fukui Prefectural Tourism Federation ]

TEL:+81-776-23-3677 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website:http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

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Echizen Oroshi Soba Noodle Echizen Oroshi Soba is a tray of dark colored, chewy buckwheat noodles served with unique dipping sauce containing a generous heap of grated daikon radish. The fragrant, sweet noodles and spicy grated daikon blend in delicious harmony in the mouth. The simple variation of the soba dish has a complex flavor and is the recent focus of attention as a meal that promotes longevity.

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Parking for Season Year-round tour buses

Echizen Oroshi Soba Noodle Related links http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places/food.html

Contact Us[ Fukui Prefectural Tourism Federation ] TEL:+81-776-23-3677 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website:http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

Tsuruga Museum Street

Tsuruga Museum Street, home to the Tsuruga City Museum, opened in October 2013 and features stores renovated from nostalgic townhouses that in their day formed the most bustling district of Tsuruga. From the regenerated Tsuruga Museum Street, extend your visit farther to the east and west to enjoy sights of buildings, historic shrines and temples that retain vestiges of the flourishing port town of Tsuruga.

Location/View Aioi-cho,Tsuruga-shi,Fukui ,914-0062

Access 28 min. walk from port(2.3km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 5 buses Tsuruga Museum Street(Tsuruga Guide) Related links http://www.turuga.org/places/museumstreet/museumstreet .html

Contact Us[ Tsuruga Tourist Information Center ] TEL:+81-770-21-8686 l E-MAIL:[email protected] Website: http://www.turuga.org/

Nihonkai Sakanamachi

Nihonkai Sakanamachi represents one of the largest fresh food markets facing the Sea of Japan. As many as 70 retailers, mainly local fishermen, offer fresh marine products directly from the Tsuruga Port at reasonable prices. The market has a dining zone that serves the freshest seafood dishes such as sashimi over rice. Other products include local sweets and sake wine.

Location/View 1-1531,Wakaba-cho,Tsuruga-shi,Fukui ,914-0125

Travel by tour:20 min. via car from berth(6km) Access Individual travel:Short walk from Tsuruga-Kanko Bus Tsuruga around Bus Nihonkai Sakana Machi bus stop(6km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 40 buses

Nihonkai Sakanamachi(Seafood Market) Related links http://www.sakanamachi.info/

Contact Us[ Tsuruga Tourist Information Center ] TEL:+81-770-21-8686 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Websitehttp: http://www.turuga.org/

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Kehi Shrine Kehi Shrine, believed to date back to 702, is a time-honored sanctuary also known as the "primary shrine of Echizen province" and a "tutelary of the Hokuriku Road." Legend says the 10.9-meter tall torii gate was made from a Temple Juniper that drifted from Sado Island in Niigata. Along with the wooden gates of Hiroshima's Itsukushima Shrine and Nara's Kasuga Grand Shrine, it is designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan.

Location/View 11-68,Akebono-cho,Tsuruga-shi,Fukui ,914-0075

Access 30 min. walk from port(2.5km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 10 buses

Kehi Shrine Related links http://www.turuga.org/en/kehijingu/kehijingu.html

Contact Us[ Tsuruga Tourist Information Center ] TEL:+81-770-21-8686 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website: http://www.turuga.org/

Yokokan Garden

Yokokan was the mansion of the Matsudaira clan of the Fukui domain. The elegant building, designed around a study and the vast expanse of garden, are noted as precious remaining examples of mid-Edo period architecture. For the beauty of the garden and its harmony with the building, Yokokan Garden is designated a place of scenic beauty in Japan. In 2016 it ranked fifth in a list of Japanese gardens compiled by an American magazine.

Location/View 3-12-1,Houei,Fukui-shi,Fukui ,910-0004

Travel by tour:60 min. via car from berth(61km) Access Individual travel:12 min. walk from JR Hokuriku Main Line Fukui Station(61km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 6 buses Yokokan Garden(Fukui Tourism Guide) Related links http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places_to_visit/historical_place.php

Contact Us[ Fukui City Tourism Development Office ] TEL:+81-776-20-5346 l E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://www.city.fukui.lg.jp/foreign/english/history.html

Tojimbo Cliffs The Tojimbo Cliffs are a series of precipices stretching for 1 kilometer along the Sea of Japan. The site is designated a place of scenic beauty and a natural monument of Japan. Standing more than 20 meters high, the rocks are magnificent, in part due to the frightening force with which raging waves crash against them. The geologically significant site is counted among the three greatest in the world.

Location/View Mikuni-cho Anto,Sakai-shi,Fukui ,913-0063 Travel by tour:90 min. via car from berth(96km) Access Individual travel:5 min. walk from Keifuku Bus Kanazu-Tojimbo Line Tojimbo Bus stop(96km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 40 buses

Tojimbo Cliffs Related links http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places/nature.html

Contact Us[Fukui Prefectual Tourism Federation ] TEL:+81-776-23-3677 l E-MAIL: [email protected] l Website: http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

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Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum One of the three greatest dinosaur museums in the world. Located in Katsuyama city of Fukui Prefecture, which is famous nationwide as treasure house for dinosaur fossil remains. The large astylar space is filled with dinosaur skeletons,fossil specimens, diorama and replicas. Visitors can see terrifying dinosaur robots up close whose powerful movement looks real.

Location/View 51-11,Terao, Muroko-cho, Katsuyama City

Travel by tour:80 min. via car from berth(84km) Access Individual travel:1 min. Katsuyama City Community Bus Hakubutukanmae Bus stop (84km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 10 buses

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Related links https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/en/

Contact Us[Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum ] TEL:+81-779-88-0001 l E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/en/

Five Lakes of Mikata The Five Lakes of Mitaka—Lake Mitaka, Lake Suigetsu, Lake Suga, Lake Kugushi, and Lake Hiruga—each represents a subtly different shade of blue that appears mystical from above. The contrast is clear from the 11.2-kilometer long toll road Rainbow Line, which offers a dynamic view of the lakes against the Sea of Japan. In November 2005 the site was covered by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).

Location/View Kiyama,Wakasa-cho,Fukui ,919-1301

Travel by tour:50 min. via car from berth(29km) Access Individual travel:15 min. from JR Obama Line Mihama Station(29km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 50 buses Mikatagoko http://www.wakasa-mikatagoko.jp/en/search/entry/tourism- Related links 001.html Five Lakes of Mikata http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places/nature.html Contact Us[Fukui Prefectual Tourism Federation ] TEL:+81-776-23-3677 l E-MAIL: [email protected] l Website: http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins The Warring States-era warlords, the Asakura clan, ruled this area from 1471 to 1574; the remains of their castle town can still be seen today. These remains have been designated a special historic site, a site of special scenic beauty, and an important cultural property.The restored town scenery of samurai residences and townhouses was reconstructed using the foundation stones and stone fences just as they were found underground on the site.

Location/View 28-37 Kidonouchi-cho, Fukui city, Fukui

Access Travel by tour:60 min. via car from berth(65km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 10 buses Fukui Tourism Guide https://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/places_to_visit/histori Related links cal_place.php

Contact Us[Fukui Prefectual Tourism Federation ] TEL:+81-776-23-3677 l E-MAIL: [email protected] l Website: http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

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（） Papyrus House Echizen Washi Village Papyrus House is a hands-on paper-making facility located within Echizen Washi Village. Here, visitors can make their own washi paper and then decorate it with pressed flowers, dyes, and more, making postcards, business cards, coasters, fans, lampshades, or other goods with their own hand-made paper. The Papyrus House shop also offers an incredible variety of items made with washi paper.

Location/View 8-44 Shinzaike-cho, Echizen city, Fukui

Access Travel by tour:50 min. via car from berth(45km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 10 buses Echizen Washi Village http://www.echizenwashi.jp/index.php

Eiheiji Temple

Eiheiji is a main temple of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism. It was founded by Dogen Zenji as a training monastery 0770 years ago, in 1244. Bordered on three sides by mountains and situated deep in a forest of 700-year-old Japanese cedar trees, the premises are lined with some 70 buildings large and small. The temple is listed in the 100 Historic Landscapes of Beauty in Japan.

Location/View 5-15,Shihi,Eiheiji-cho,Fukui ,910-1228

Travel by tour:60 min. via car from berth(71km) Access Individual travel:Short walk from Keifuku Bus Eiheiji-Liner Eiheiji-Monzen Bus stop bus stop(71km from port) Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 40 buses Eiheiji Temple Related links https://daihonzan-eiheiji.com/

Tsuruga red brick warehouse

The red brick warehouse is a symbol and a historic facility of port Tsuruga. This year is the 110th anniversary of the red brick warehouse from being built. The red brick warehouse renewed as a tourism and commercial facilities including a harbor and railway diorama and a restaurant in October 2015.

Location/View 4-1,Kanegasaki-cho,Tsuruga-shi,Fukui, 914-0072

Access 15 min. walk from port(1.2km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 10 buses

Tsuruga red brick warehouse Related links http://tsuruga-akarenga.jp

Contact Us[ Tsuruga red brick warehouse ] TEL: +81-770-47-6612 l E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://tsuruga-akarenga.jp

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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum

The Tsuruga Port was the only one in Japan open to Polish orphans from Siberia in 1920 and to Jewish refugees with "visas for life" issued by Chiune Sugihara, Vice Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania in 1940. Dubbed the "Harbor of the East" and later the "Port of Humanity," Tsuruga has flourished for a long time as a gateway to continental Asia.

Location/View 44-1,Kanagasaki-cho,Tsuruga-shi,Fukui ,914-0072

Access 15 min. walk from port(1.2km)

Parking for Season Year-round tour buses 5 buses Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum Related links http://www.tmo-tsuruga.com/kk-museum/index_e.html

Contact Us[ Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum ] TEL:+81-770-37-1035 l E-MAIL:[email protected] l Website:http://www.tmo-tsuruga.com/kk-museum/index_e.html

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