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A seaside shrine at the tip of Tsunegami Peninsula, long revered by fishermen and sailors of Wakasa Bay for maritime safety

A Kannon pilgrimage site renowned for miraculously healing hand and foot ailments, with votive plaques shaped like limbs offered by worshippers from across Japan

A sacred spring cold enough to split a melon, selected among Japan's 100 Famous Waters and flowing within a grove of ancient cedars at Tentokuji Temple

Ramsar-listed five lakes where Lake Suigetsu's 70,000-year varve record has been adopted as the international radiocarbon dating calibration standard

The starting point of the Saba Kaido (Mackerel Road), a preserved Edo post town of white-walled storehouses designated an Important Preservation District

The world's only museum displaying a 45m core of 70,000-year varves — Wakasa's scientific treasure that reframed global radiocarbon dating

A Jomon-era site yielding a National Treasure branch with world's oldest lacquer evidence, where dugout canoes and bows were miraculously preserved

The post town and guardian shrine on the Saba Kaido that carried Wakasa seafood to the imperial capital, with well-preserved Edo streetscapes surviving from the late Sengoku period