Mikata District, Mihama
#3 among attractions in Mihama
Facts and practical information
Mikata is a district located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. ()
Mihama Japan
Mikata District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum, Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum, Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum, Mikata Five Lakes.
Museum, History museumPort of Humanity Tsuruga Museum, Tsuruga
180 min walk • Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum is a museum that displays the history of Tsuruga Port, located in Kanegasaki Park, Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan.
Museum, Archaeological museumWakasa Mikata Jomon Museum, Wakasa
134 min walk • Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum is an archeological museum located in the town of Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the exhibition of Torihama shell mound as well as varve, oldest of which dating back to 70,000 years ago, discovered in the bottom of Lake Suigetsu, one of the Five Lakes of Mikata.
Museum, Archaeological museumFukui Prefectural Varve Museum, Wakasa
133 min walk • Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum is a geological and archeological museum located in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It features varve ranging from 70,000 years ago to the present, as found at the bottom of Lake Suigetsu. The special chairman is Kazuma Yamane.
LakeMikata Five Lakes, Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park
144 min walk • Mikata Five Lakes, also called the Five Lakes of Mikata, are a series of brackish and freshwater lakes located in Mihama and Wakasa, Fukui, Japan, which are close to the coast of Wakasa Bay. They consist of Lakes Mikata, Suigetsu, Suga, Kugushi and Hiruga. These five lakes are all located in Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park.
Sacred and religious sites, TempleKehi Shrine, Tsuruga
174 min walk • Kehi Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in the Akebono-chō neighborhood of the city of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is the ichinomiya of former Echizen Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on September 4. The shrine is considered the chief guardian shrine of the Hokuriku region.
TempleKanegasaki-gū, Tsuruga
183 min walk • Kanegasaki Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan. In the former Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines, it was an imperial shrine of the second rank. Its main festival is held annually on May 6.
Forts and castlesKanagasaki Castle, Tsuruga
185 min walk • Kanegasaki Castle was a Kamakura to Nanboku-cho period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. It was also known as Tsuruga Castle. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1934.
Nature, Natural attraction, LakeLake Suigetsu, Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park
140 min walk • Lake Suigetsu is a lake in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan, which is one of the Mikata Five Lakes located in Mihama and Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, close to the coast of the Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan.
Archaeological siteTorihama shell mound, Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park
134 min walk • The Torihama shell mound is a shell midden and remains of an Early Jōmon period settlement located in the Torihama neighbourhood of the town of Wakasa, Fukui, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is a waterlogged midden site that was occupied mainly from the Incipient Jomon period to the Early Jomon period from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago.
HarborTsuruga Port, Tsuruga
141 min walk • The Tsuruga Port is now one of the three main ports on the Sea of Japan.
Forts and castlesKuniyoshi Castle, Mihama
36 min walk • Kuniyoshi Castle is a castle structure in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
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