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Echizen Ono

A Castle in the Sky
Ono City, located in Fukui prefecture, is a castle town, which is rich with history, culture, and tradition. Ono City is blessed with nature, water, and food. Ono City is surrounded by a magnificent natural environment and is also full of greenery due to the surrounding mountains of Hakusan: the sacred mountains.

In Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, which is a basin surrounded by mountains on all sides, Echizen Ono Castle, located in the center of it, is famous for its fantastic scenery as a castle in the sky. One of the highlights of Echizen Ono Castle is “Unkai” (a sea of clouds). As introduced earlier, Echizen Ono Castle is built on the top of Mount Kameyama, so if the conditions such as the season match, the sea of clouds will spread around. At that time, you can enjoy the fantastic scenery as if the castle was floating. Due to the phenomenon of the sea of clouds spreading around the castle, Echizen Ono Castle is also called “Castle in the Sky” and is a popular spot for tourists. In Japan, Takeda Castle Ruins and Bicchuu Matsuyama Castle are also famous for being a castle in the sky.

Ono City’s impressive old scenery is known as “Country of Yui” The word “yui” represents a custom of people helping each other with farm work, forestry, events,and rituals in traditional rural villages. It also stands for Ono having played an important role in connecting and economically helping activate local areas. In this way, Echizen Ono is a homeland gradually bonding lives and areas filled with yui.
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