Hokuriku Arch Pass
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
One of the three biggest dinosaur museums in the world.
This extensive exhibit includes numerous dinosaur skeletons and full-impact reconstruction models as well as other fossils.
- FUKUI
- Sightseeing
| Address | In Katsuyama Kyoryu-no-mori, 51-11 , Murokocho Terao, Katsuyama City |
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| Access | Walk for 5 min. from JR Fukui Sta. to Echizen Railway Fukui Sta. Ride Echizen Railway for 53 min. and get off at Katsuyama Sta. Then ride a Community bus for approx. 15 min. and get off at Kyoryu Hakubutsukan bus stop. It's a short walk from the bus stop to Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. |
| Tel | 0779-88-0001 |
| URL | http://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/en/ |
Other Tourist Attractions in This Area
Eihei-ji Temple
Head temple of the Soto sect founded by Zen monk Dogen, assembling monks entering priesthood from all over the country. It assembles many features worthy of appreciation such as corridors scattered with delicate engravings and painted ceilings.
Place of Scenic Beauty, Yokokan Garden
This garden used to be the second home of the Matsudaira Clan, the ruling feudal lords of Fukui. The strolling garden with a central pond and the Sukiya-zukuri style buildings around it are worth seeing. It is one of the gardens representative of the mid-Edo Period and, being a superb garden with a present layout which has remained unchanged from the original drawings, it was designated as one of the country's places of scenic beauty.
Tojinbo Sightseeing Pleasure Boat
The Tojinbo wall of rocks consisting of pyroxene andesite columnar joints stretches across continously for more than 1 km. Visitors can get on a pleasure cruise and admire rocks with characteristic peculiar shapes such as the beehive rock, the lion rock or the candle rock.
