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Leisure & Outdoor entertainment facility

Leisure & Outdoor entertainment facility

Mikuni is full of leisure spots where both families and couples can enjoy such as amusement parks, an aquarium, interactive facilities, and marine sports facilities. After enjoying yourself in these facilities, how about having fun at Mikuni Hot Spring?
We guarantee your fruitful trip around Mikuni whether it is a day trip or a trip covering two days or more. Please have a good time with your friends and make a lot of pleasant memories.

Let us show you the following eight different ways to spend your pleasant time in Mikuni.

  • Shibamasa World

    Shibamasa World

    Shibamasa World, a theme park to enjoy huge open lawns and the Sea of Japan. Enjoy a wide variety of attractions, including a roller coaster, a pirate ship, miniature golf, and a campsite. Every summer, we open one of the largest pools in Japan. There are more attractions than you can manage in a day, including the Caribbean Beach, a wave pool overlooking the Sea of Japan; the huge 6-person Monster Slider; Triple Saurus, one of the world's largest tire slides; a lazy river and a heated indoor jacuzzi pool. During the summer vacation, the pool is open until an amazing 10 p.m.! Enjoy the magical atmosphere and excitement of an illuminated pool, quite unlike that during the day.

    Business hours 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
    ※ Night opening during the summer period
    ※ Please check website for details
    Regular holidayOpen every day March – November, Closed weekdays December – February
    Related linksWebsite of Shibamasa World
  • Echizen Matsushima Aquarium

    Echizen Matsushima Aquarium

    At this aquarium, besides pleasant attractions such as performance by dolphins, humorous walking of penguins in a line, and so on, you can touch the body of a shark, a huge octopus, and doctor fish and feed sea turtles and ocean fish. You can also walk on the reinforced glass fixed on the surface of a huge water tank with corals in it or enjoy watching popular heart-shaped water tanks in “Penguin kan (Penguin block)” and “Penguin Land”. You can also see cute marine life like otters, molas, clione, etc. You can’t miss fantastical performance of dolphins at night during the Golden Week Holidays and summertime. This is an interactive type of aquarium that is full of pleasant projects providing you with experiences to see and actually touch marine life and learn about them with enjoyment.

    Business hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
    Summertime: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
    Wintertime :9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
    Admission fee2,000 yen (adults) / 1,000 yen (elementary & middle school students)
    500 yen (children over 3 years old)
    (group & night discount available)
    Regular holidayOpen every day of the year
    Related linksWebsite of Echizen Matsushima Aquarium
  • Mikuni firework festival

    Mikuni firework festival

    This is the biggest firework festival in Hokuriku region held gorgeously on August 11 every year at Sunset Beach. 7,000 sky rockets, set piece fireworks, Star mine, Niagara Falls, etc. illuminate the mid-summer night sky beautifully. Especially, submerged fireworks in this festival have been the highlight among firework displays in Hokuriku region.

    Related linksWebsite of Mikuni firework festival
  • Shimizu Botanical Garden   Kamu-u no oka   Ground golf course

    Shimizu Botanical Garden Kamu-u no oka Ground golf course

    Within the compounds of Shimizu Botanical Garden lies a ground golf course rich in natural environment with 72 holes covered with natural turf. Since this golf course is inside the botanical garden, you can enjoy watching beautiful flowers and blossoms such as daffodils, alpine roses, cherry blossoms, etc. while playing golf. As you can also buy garden trees you like at a store inside the botanical garden, this is a nice place to visit for gardening lovers as well.

    Business hours8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
    Parking lotup to 50 cars (charge-free)
    Regular holidaysOpen every day of the year
    Phone number0776-82-4128
    Related linksWebsite of Shimizu Botanical Garden
  • Kyukamura Echizen Mikuni Auto Camp Site (Holiday Village Echizen Mikuni Auto Camp Site)

    Kyukamura Echizen Mikuni Auto Camp Site (Holiday Village Echizen Mikuni Auto Camp Site)

    This auto camp site is rich in nature surrounded by green pine trees with deep blue Japan Sea right in front of it. It has 50 camping sections altogether, all of which are designed for automobiles and 11 of them has fireplaces. This holiday village also has a swimming pool and a tennis court besides auto camp site.

    Related linksWebsite of Kyukamura Echizen Mikuni Auto Camp Site
  • Shibamasa Auto Camp Site

    Shibamasa Auto Camp Site

    This is a composite-type auto camp site with extensive natural environment and amusement facilities integrated together, which is a unique feature of this facility. Let’s get physical activity with all the strength you have in various amusement attractions and the swimming pools in the daytime, and then, enjoy watching the beautiful sun set into the Japan Sea sitting on the green turf. In the evening, why don’t you enjoy barbecue under the night sky full of beautiful stars? Please relieve your fatigue from your daily work and gain energy for tomorrow in a relaxed manner in this resort spot full of beautiful green turf.

    Related linksWebsite of Shibamasa World
  • Nan's Sea

    Nan's Sea

    Please ask Nan’s Sea anything about surfing. This shop provides you with various surfing lessons, body board class, and surfing lesson for children as well as rental service of surf gear and snorkels.They accept people of all ages all the year round who wish to take various lessons of marine sports. Please feel free to call or send your text-messages for inquiry. Just bathing at the beach is not fun. Don’t you think so?

    Related linksWebsite of Nan’s Sea
  • Mikuni Hot Spring Your Port

    Mikuni Hot Spring Your Port

    Mikuni Hot Spring Your Port is the publicly owned hot spring facility located at the southern end of Sunset Beach. Right behind this hot spring spreads the Japan Sea. You can command exquisitely beautiful panoramic view of sunset while soaking your body comfortably in the hot spring bathtub. This hot spring building is designed to take in natural light abundantly. From “Minato no yu (Port hot spring)”, you can command the Kuzuryu River running into the Japan Sea and from “Kamome no yu (Seagull hot spring)”, you can enjoy beautiful sunset in Mikuni Sunset Beach. This hot spring has a wide variety of efficacy such as beautification of your skin, enhancement of your good health, etc. You can enjoy bathing at this hot spring in a relaxed manner. Please relax at the observation balcony where you can command a panoramic wide view of the Japan Sea.

    Business hours10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
    Parking lotup to 50 cars (charge-free)
    Regular holidays3rd Wednesdays
    (The next day when the 3rd Wednesday falls on a national holiday)
    Related linksWebsite of Mikuni Hot Spring Your Port

Sightseeing guide of Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture

General Incorporate Association DMO Sakai Tourist Bureau

C/O Tojinbo Tourism and Interaction Center64-1-166 Anto, Mikuni-cho,
Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture 913-0063

  • TEL:0776-82-1555
  • FAX:0776-82-6988

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