Category: Fukui

• Bike Packing: Kasugai – Gujo – Kadohara – Meiho Onsen

  

  Fukui prefecture (福井県) seems to be a fairly unexplored region of Japan for cyclists and as a region along the Sea of Japan coast it used to be considered an isolated region before modernization. It’s northeast of Gifu prefecture and getting there from Aichi (愛知県) by riding through Gujo Hachiman (郡上八幡)  in central Gifu (岐阜県) […]

  Sean

  September 25, 2018

  Aichi, Bike Packing, Fukui

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• Photography: Tsuruga

  

  Tsuruga, in Fukui prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast and less than 100km from Kyoto (115km from Nagoya), is a pleasant part of central Japan. Unfortunately it’s also home to three nuclear power stations, one of which geologists say lies under the Urasoko faultline (浦底断層) which is capable of causing a major 7.4M earthquake […]

  Sean

  March 16, 2014

  Fukui, Japan, Photography

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