14 Beautiful Garden of Fukui's Library Takako Sakamoto Fukui's Prefectural Library has a beautiful, spacious, garden park. It's free to enter. A great place to bask in the sun,..
9 Hakusan Shrine at Taicho-ji Temple Takako Sakamoto On the grounds of Taicho-ji Temple in Fukui, there is a small shrine standing alone in the deep woods.
11 Fox Shrine Inside Taicho-ji Temple Takako Sakamoto The Fox Shrine inside Taicho-ji Temple in Fukui doesn't have fox statues. There is a 'cemetery' of broken jizo statues..
9 Gunkanjima: Undersea Entrance No. 3 Takako Sakamoto The history and metamorphoses of the 'Undersea Coal Mine Island', Gunkanjima in Nagasaki.
16 Taicho-ji Temple: A Jizo Paradise Takako Sakamoto When I visited Taicho-ji Temple in Fukui, I expected to see something related to the famous monk Taicho but, instead, many jizo..
16 33 Kannon Statues at Taicho-ji Takako Sakamoto There are 33 Kannon Bosatsu Statues at Taicho-ji Temple in Fukui. If you make a pilgrimage to all of them, it is said that you will..
14 Shougenji Temple, Fukui Takako Sakamoto Shougenji, Fukui, is the head temple of 'Gugan Shinshu', one of many sects of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. It has a beautiful..
16 Shirayama Shrine in a Rice Field Takako Sakamoto There are millions of Shirayama (Hakusan) Shrines in Japan. I visited one of them I found in my neighborhood, among vast rice fields...
