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    Wakasa (若狭町, Wakasa-chō) is a town located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2018[update], the city had an estimated population of 14,577 and...
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    Wakasa Province (若狭国, Wakasa-no-kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today the southwestern portion of Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region...
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  • Wakasa may refer to: Wakasa Province, an old province of Japan Wakasa, Fukui, a town in Fukui Prefecture Wakasa, Tottori, a town in Tottori Prefecture...
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    Tambatitanis as well as an unnamed dromaeosaurid. Fukui originally consisted of the old provinces of Wakasa and Echizen, before the prefecture was formed...
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    Parts of the city are within the borders of the Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park. Fukui Prefecture Wakasa Ōi Shiga Prefecture Takashima Obama has a Humid...
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    Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum (若狭三方縄文博物館) is an archeological museum located in the town of Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the exhibition...
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  • Mikata District), was merged to create the town of Wakasa (in the newly created Mikatakaminaka District). Wakasa official website (in Japanese) v t e...
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    Wakasa Bay Wakasa Bay (若狭湾, Wakasa-wan) is a bay located in the Chūbu region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Kyoto Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture....
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    Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum is a geological and archeological museum located in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It features...
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    Fukui Prefecture, bordered by Shiga Prefecture to the south and Wakasa Bay of the Sea of Japan to the north. Tsuruga lies some 50 km south of Fukui,...
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    Mikata Five Lakes (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    brackish and freshwater lakes located in Mihama and Wakasa, Fukui, Japan, which are close to the coast of Wakasa Bay. They consist of Lakes Mikata (三方湖), Suigetsu...
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    Wakasa-Arita Station (若狭有田駅, Wakasa-Arita-eki) is a railway station in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated...
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  • Mikata (三方町, Mikata-chō) was a town located in Mikata District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 9,026 and...
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    Station (気山駅, Kiyama-eki) is a railway station in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company...
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    Lake Suigetsu (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    Mikata Five Lakes located in Mihama and Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture (west-central Honshu), close to the coast of the Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan. Since 1993...
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    Torihama shell mound (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    period settlement located in the Torihama neighbourhood of the town of Wakasa, Fukui, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is a waterlogged midden site that...
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    Wakasa-Wada Station (若狭和田駅, Wakasa-Wada-eki) is a railway station in the town of Takahama, Ōi District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan...
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    Jōnozuka Kofun (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    burial mound located in the Wakibukuro neighborhood of the town of Wakasa, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National...
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    Wakasa Kokubun-ji (若狭国分寺) is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in the city of Obama, Fukui, Japan. It is one of the few surviving provincial temples...
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    Nishizuka Kofun (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    is a kofun burial mound located in what is now part of the town of Wakasa, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National...
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    Shimofunazuka Kofun (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    kofun burial mound located in the Hikasa neighborhood of the town of Wakasa, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic...
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    Kamifunazuka Kofun (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    is a kofun burial mound located in what is now part of the town of Wakasa, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National...
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    Hokuriku dialects (redirect from Fukui-ben)
    The dialects of Fukui Prefecture are Fukui dialect (福井弁, Fukui-ben) spoken in the northern part, and the Wakasa dialect (若狭弁, Wakasa-ben) spoken in the...
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    Chiba, Japan Nose, Osaka, Japan Ōra District, Gunma, Japan Reinan [ja](Wakasa), Fukui, Japan Wadi Araba Department, Aqaba Governorate, Jordan Russeifa Department...
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    southwestern corner of Fukui Prefecture, bordered by Kyoto Prefecture to the west and the heavily indented ria coast of Wakasa Bay of Sea of Japan to...
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    Nakatsuka Kofun (category Wakasa, Fukui)
    is a kofun burial mound located in what is now part of the town of Wakasa, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National...
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    Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park (若狭湾国定公園, Wakasa Wan Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in Fukui and Kyōto Prefectures, Japan. Established in 1955...
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    Bay (within Wakasa Bay) of Sea of Japan to the north. Parts of the town are within the borders of the Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park. Fukui Prefecture...
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  • Thumbnail for Ōtoba Station (Fukui)
    Station (大鳥羽駅, Ōtoba-eki) is a railway station in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company...
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    of the town are within the borders of the Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park. Fukui Prefecture Tsuruga Wakasa Shiga Prefecture Takashima Mihama has a Humid...
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