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Fukui · Japan
In the destination Fukui and Eiheiji.
In the photo: Cedars and stairway of the Eihei-ji monastery.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Small town east of Fukui named after the Eihei-ji monastery, one of the two main temples of Sōtō Zen, founded in 1244, with halls connected by corridors among centennial cedars. On the approach street to the temple there are soba and sesame-tofu restaurants.
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The local experience
Monastery founded in 1244 by the master Dōgen, one of the two principal temples of the Sōtō Zen school, with about 70 buildings linked by wooden corridors on a cedar-covered slope where monks in training live.
Beyond the guide
