California keeps teasing us with a new bullet train that seems like it will never come to fruition, but if there's one place ...

In a bid to attract visitors frustrated by Japan’s crowds, one coastal corner of Fukui prefecture offers genuine connection with locals over Japan's usual tourist tropes.

Japan's first university department dedicated to dinosaur research opened last month in a prefecture known for major dinosaur fossil discoveries. The Faculty of Dinosaur Paleontology at Fukui ...

Image adapted from: Echizen Tetudo. Fukui Prefecture is famous for the fantastic Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, and there’s no better train to hop on than the themed Fukui Dinosaur Train when ...

Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, where stationmaster Kanichi Tominaga hit upon the idea of a ...

Ten years after the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opened its Nagano-Kanazawa extension, sightseeing spots along the line are bustling with tourists from home and abroad.

Fukui – Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto on Monday effectively gave the green light for the continued operations of three aging nuclear reactors in the prefecture from next fiscal year.

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A Shrine Draped with a Mossy Name. Fukui Prefecture is home to around 80% of Japan’s dinosaur fossils. In March 2024 the Hokuriku Shinkansen extended service to Fukui Station, where visitors are ...

FUKUI, Japan -- Japan will open its first university division dedicated to the study of dinosaurs in April. In partnership with the nation's premier dinosaur museum, students at Fukui Prefectural ...