You can visit many sightseeing spots and enjoy popular foods in Fukui without having to leave the JR Fukui Station area!

Update date and time: 2022/03/06(Sun)

There are many restaurants within walking distance from the JR Fukui Station including the adjacent commercial facility “Happiring,” where you can enjoy popular foods in Fukui such as Echizen oroshi soba noodles, sauce cutlet rice bowl, and grilled mackerel sushi. Europe-Ken, famous for its sauce cutlet rice bowl, Yakitori no Meimon Akiyoshi (famous Yakitori restaurant), a soul food restaurant for the people of Fukui Prefecture, are also within a 10-minute walk from the station.

Echizen oroshi soba and sauce cutlet rice bowls are must-try menus at restaurants in Fukui. You can find them in almost any restaurant. The combination of these two dishes is a standard menu that is loved by the locals. Some restaurants also offer grilled mackerel sushi instead of the sauce cutlet rice bowl.

There is a wholesale market in Fukui City which is about an hour away from the Echizen Coast. Having the ocean nearby, you can always enjoy seasonal seafood in the city center. You can enjoy dishes such as sashimi, seafood rice bowls, and in winter, Echizen crab.

Happiring

Address: 1-2-1, Chuo, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-20-2080

Regular holidays: Open all year round

Access: 1 minute walk from JR Fukui Station

Official website: http://www.happiring.com/

Fukui Fresh Market “Senichiba” (Fukui City Central Wholesale Market)

Fukui Fresh Market “Senichiba” (Fukui City Central Wholesale Market) is located in the suburbs

Address: 101, Owada 1-chome, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-53-0001

Business hours: 8:30 – 14:30 (varies depending on the store)

Regular holidays: Varies depending on the store

Access: 15 minutes by car from JR Fukui Station

Official website: http://www.fukui-market.jp/

| Habutae Mochi, Abekawa Mochi, Mizuyokan (Soft Azuki Bean Jelly)

“Muranaka Kansendo,” “Matsuoka-Ken,” and “Kinbaido,” are all long-established manufacturers of Fukui’s famous “Habutae mochi.” “Tentatsu,” famous for its sea urchin, and other delicious souvenirs are also concentrated around Fukui Station.

It is also a good idea to buy Habutae mochi and mizu-yokan from several different stores and compare them. This is a unique way of eating around Fukui Station. You will be surprised at how different the flavors are depending on the store, even though the ingredients are almost the same.

You can also find famous souvenirs and crafts of Fukui at the station and commercial facility Happiring. You should also check out crafts of Fukui Prefecture in the department store (Fukui WAZABI on the 5th floor of Seibu Fukui Store), which is about a 5-minute walk from Fukui Station.

The stores have many branches located in different areas, but the station, Happiring, and Wazabi would be a convenient place to get your shopping done in one location.

Muranaka Kansendo

Address: 1-21-24, Chuo, Fukui-shi, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-22-4152

Business hours: 9:00 – 19:00

Regular holidays: Tuesdays

Access: 7-minute walk from JR Fukui Station

Official website: http://www.kansendo.com/

Matsuoka-Ken

Address: 3-5-19, Chuo, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-22-4400

Regular holidays: year-end and new year holidays

Business hours: 9:00 – 18:00

Access: 15-minute walk from JR Fukui Station

Official website: http://habutae.com/

Kinbaido

Address: 1-7-7 Junka, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-24-0383

Business hours: 8:00 – 19:00 (business hours may vary)

Access: 15 minute walk from JR Fukui Station

Official website: https://www.hokurikumeihin.com/kinbaidou/

Tentatsu

Address: 2-7-17 Junka, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture

Tel: 0776-22-1679

Business hours: 9:00 – 18:00

Access: 15 minute walk from JR Fukui Station

Official website: https://www.tentatu.com/

｜A great place to experience soba (buckwheat noodle) making, visit sake breweries, and take a walk around Mt. Asuwa and Yokokan Garden

You can visit sightseeing spots, enjoy nature and even experience making soba noodles.

When making soba at the Echizen Soba Club, you will be carefully instructed by a trained soba-maker, so even beginners can have a try. You can even eat the soba you have made on the spot.

You can also visit breweries making local sake. The delicious rice and water, as well as the skill, experience, and passion of each brewer, create a variety of sake that will captivate sake lovers, as well as introduce new tastes to those who are unfamiliar with sake.

You can take a leisurely stroll around the ruins of Fukui Castle, the Yokokan Garden and Mt. Asuwa. It will only take two to three hours to cover the ground, and the stillness will make you forget that you are in the city.

If you have a little bit of free time, why not take a walk around Fukui Station, and visit some of the locations mentioned above!

Echizen Soba Club