The Katsuyama-Ono area offers tourist attractions such as Lake Kuzuryu, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, and Otaki Waterfall, tourist events such as Katsuyama Sagicho Festival, Kuzuryu Autumn Leaves Festival, and Kuzuryu New Green Festival, and local gourmet foods such as fried tofu, black dragon, and heshiko.
The Katsuyama-Ono area is a mecca for winter sports, especially skiing in winter, with a large number of visitors enjoying snowboarding and other activities, and is a gourmet spot for black buckwheat noodles, which are so typical that Ono is known for buckwheat noodles. The Kuzuryu River, including the Kuzuryu Gorge, offers spectacular scenery during the season of fresh green leaves and autumn foliage.
Katsuyama is famous for Ski Jam Katsuyama, one of the largest winter sports venues in western Japan. It is a huge amusement spot with many visitors from the Kansai and Kanto regions, and is especially famous for its snowboarding courses.
The food on the slopes is plentiful! That is one word for it. Even a dessert store is available, and the food is very popular among female visitors. In addition, there is a "hot spring pool," "open-air baths, etc.," and even a "day-care center," which is a surprise.
If you want to be particular about your skiing, be sure to visit the "Tune-up Snow Bit" to make sure your equipment is maintained. Anyway, it is an enjoyable leisure area where you can spend a whole day in a blink of an eye.
Ono is famous for its black buckwheat noodles, which are best paired with the wild vegetables available in the area. If you visit Ono, you should try the "Sansai Soba" at least once, you will be addicted to its deliciousness. Ono is also famous for its "famous water," and the area is rich in groundwater from which soba is made, including "oshozu," which has been selected as one of the 100 best waters by the Ministry of the Environment.
The Kuzuryu River is a great area in early spring and during the season of autumn leaves. The stunning scenery that can be seen from National Route 158 running along the gorge is so beautiful that you may lose track of time. The area is also famous for its ayu (sweetfish), one of the best local foods caught in the clear waters of the river.
The famous "Kuzuryu Onsen" is a milky white hot spring that is alkaline and good for beauty, and there is also an open-air bath where visitors can bathe while enjoying the spectacular natural scenery. If you go to nearby Fukui, you can also enjoy the waters of the Sea of Japan, so if possible, you should arrange a rental car and enjoy driving around this area.
Echizen Ono Castle was built by Nagachika Kanamori, one of Oda Nobunaga's elite vassals, "Akamogorishu," who was given two-thirds of the county of Ono by Nobunaga Oda, on a 249-meter-high mountain called Kameyama in the Ono Basin. The construction of the castle took four years from 1576 (Tensho 4)....»
Located in the Nagaoyama General Park (Katsuyama Dinosaur Forest), this natural history museum has exhibits centering on dinosaurs. The museum is nationally renowned as a treasure trove of dinosaur fossils and is one of the largest in the world. Worldwide, it is considered one of the three major d...»