Echizen Guide
Short, practical guides to Echizen for visitors from overseas. One new guide a day at most, each one built from public sources (village and city offices, the prefecture, national agencies, transport operators) that we list at the end with the date we read them. If we could not check something, we say so and leave it out.
Latest guides
What Can You Do in Echizen? Craft Workshops, Soba and Winter Crab
Washi making, knife sharpening and forging, lacquer decorating, pottery classes, a soba factory tour, craft events and the coast's winter crab.
What Is Echizen? Washi, Knives, Lacquerware, Pottery and Tansu in Fukui
The five traditional crafts of Echizen: 1,500 years of washi, 700 years of forged blades, lacquerware, pottery and nail-free tansu chests.
How Do You Get to Echizen in Fukui and Reach Its Craft Villages?
Trains from Kyoto, Kanazawa and Tokyo, Echizen-Takefu Station, where the washi, knife, lacquerware, pottery and soba villages lie, and booking ahead.