Sakai

Sakai City (坂井市 Sakai-shi) is in Fukui Prefecture.

Maruoka Castle

Understand

Sakai City was re-organized in 2006 to incorporate the towns of Harue, Maruoka, and Mikuni.

Tourist information site

The local tourist association has a bilingual guide site.

See

• 1 Maruoka Castle (丸岡城), Kasumicho 1-59, Maruokacho. The oldest castle keep (or donjon) in Japan. Built in 1576. It's a great place for the hanami festival (or cherry blossom viewing). It is called the Mist Castle because of to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle, a thick mist appears and hides it. See also Japanese castles. (updated Oct 2017)
• 2 Tojimbo Cliffs (東尋坊). (updated Oct 2017)
• 3 Tojimbo Tower (東尋坊タワー), ☏ +81 776-81-3700. Daily 09:00-17:00. (updated Oct 2017)

Go next

• Fukui
• Eiheiji
• Katsuyama
• Ono
• Echizen
• Kaga
• Komatsu
• Kanazawa
• Awara

Routes through Sakai

Komatsu ← Kaga ←	N  S	→ Fukui → Sabae → Takefu
Komatsu ← Kaga ←	N  S	→ Fukui → Sabae → Takefu