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Fukui’s Town of Obama

Visiting So-called “Nara by the Sea”

Donny Kimball
12 min readJan 10, 2023

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Mantoku-ji is one of many temples to see in Fukui Prefecture’s seaside town of Obama
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

To understand the allure of Obama, we’re first going to have to take a look at the town’s legacy across the ages. Since the early mists of time, this seaside hamlet has played an important role as a port of trade with mainland Asia. In ancient tombs all throughout the surrounding regions…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/