The best route If you want to see the Japan heritage sites in Fukui and Katsuyama.

3-hour course (by car)

Two major Japan heritage sites this website recommends are Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins in Fukui and Hakusan Heisenji temple in Katsuyama. If you visit Fukui and see Japan heritage sites here, you can never miss these two sites. Please have an experience to directly feel the beauty and faith that Japanese stones tell you as well as the stories of stones made use of for city construction.

Heart-shaped stone route Lovers may succeed in love.

5-hour course (on foot)

Let’s find stories of stones in Katsuyama while rambling up and down along Shichirikabe. While rambling up and down Shichirikabe that used to separate the residential area of samurai class from that of merchants, you will be able to find attractive spots and delicious food. You may find a heart-shaped stone somewhere that helps the success of love.

Excursion route of Heisenji temple You can see Heisenji temple with eternal history.

4-hour course (on foot)

A huge religious city was created by constructing stones in a planned manner in Hakusan Heisenji temple in Katsuyama City. At the height of prosperity in Medieval period, it became a huge city consisting of 48 shrines, 36 halls, 6,000 temples and 8,000 monk soldiers. Why don’t you enjoy Heisenji temple with traces of the glorious history to your heart’s content?

The route recommended by TV programs You trace the course personalities of TV programs walked along

4-hour course (by car or on foot)

This is the route to trace the roots of Shakudani stone from Ichijodani Asakura Clan
Ruins in the suburbs of Fukui City. From the ruins of Ichijodani Asakura Clan that once prospered in the Warring States period and resulted in the ruin, you can trace in a leisurely manner the roots of Shakudani stone that spread all over Japan.

Shakudani stone route Female history buffs can relish their romantic imagination for history.

3-hour course (on foot)

This is the route starting from JR Fukui Station that traces Japan heritage sites in the city area related to stories of stones. Please relish romantic imagination for history by visiting the stone wall of the site of Fukui Castle constructed with about 40,000 pieces of Shakudani stones, the site of Kitanosho Castle constructed by Katsuie Shibata, a military commander of the Warring States period and tracing the cherry-tree-lined path along the Asuwa river that leads to Atago slope.