Ikeda

Ikeda combines a close-knit rural centre with deep mountain seclusion in a way that reflects its position in the upper Asuwa River valley of central Fukui Prefecture. Forested ridges enclose a town whose scattered hamlets and fields follow the river through inland Honshu, far from the Sea of Japan coast. Ikeda lies within the territory of historic Echizen Province, a name still associated with Fukui’s regional food traditions; buckwheat noodles are a familiar part of local cooking. This is a place defined less by urban monuments than by the working relationship between settlement, forest and river. Browse other webcams across Fukui Prefecture to place this setting in a wider geographic context.

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