Fukui Cinema: Fukui’s first theater

Fukui Cinema
↑↑ This is Fukui Cinema.

September/8/2018
Today I went to Fukui Cinema, a movie theater in Fukui City, Fukui prefecture, Japan. I’d heard that Fukui Cinema was going to close on September 10th, so I went there one last time.

The first Fukui Cinema was a theater built in 1919 as Fukui’s first movie theater. Fukui Cinema has a roughly 100-year history. There are big theaters in shopping malls, and you can watch movies online, so the number of people coming to Fukui Cinema has been decreasing. read more

JR Fukui Station: The new gateway to Fukui Prefecture in 2024

March/16/2024

JR Fukui Station is a gateway to Fukui Prefecture.

JR Fukui Station changed on March 16, 2024: The Shinkansen (bullet train) line between Kanazawa, a city in Ishikawa, and Tsuruga, a city in Fukui, has opened. Because of this, you can now go from Tokyo to Fukui on the bullet train in less than three hours. read more