Commerce &Trade
Commerce
From downtown stores to large scale shopping malls, Fukui’s commercial industry offers a large variety to fulfill all of your consumer needs!
Shopping Center
A quick trip out to the suburbs will bring you to shopping center paradise!
Minami Aoyama 291
Right at home in Tokyo’s posh Aoyama area, Minami Aoyama 291 displays Fukui local specialty products, arts and crafts.
Gallery Motomachi
Gallery Motomachi, where shops take history and culture, surrounds the shopper with its original atmosphere and designs.
Trade
Fukui’s trade activity focuses on textile, machinery, and eye-wear export, and Aluminum ore and machinery import, with China and other Asian countries constituting Fukui’s principal trade partners.
| Weaving Textiles | 71,344,337 |
|---|---|
| Machinery, Electronic Goods | 31,297,483 |
| Optical, Precision Machinery and Goods, Musical Instruments | 29,776,271 |
| Base Metals | 11,846,761 |
| Chemical Industry products | 10,769,464 |
| Others | 4,696,714 |
| Total | 159,731,030 |
| Weaving Textiles | 4,869,133 |
|---|---|
| Machinery, Electronic Goods | 20,174,413 |
| Optical, Precision Machinery and Goods, Musical Instruments | 8,792,724 |
| Base Metals | 29,046,581 |
| Chemical Industry products | 7,614,592 |
| Others | 12,620,886 |
| Total | 83,118,329 |
| Asia | 94,074,520 | 41,712,595 |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 21,624,412 | 15,771,468 |
| North America | 33,666,535 | 6,574,084 |
| Central and South America | 589,780 | 98,280 |
| Africa | 400,735 | 7,688,764 |
| Oceania | 1,180,052 | 11,268,138 |
| Middle East | 8,190,674 | 5,000 |
| Anonymous | 4,322 | 0 |
| Total | 159,731,030 | 83,118,329 |
| China | 40,134,017 |
|---|---|
| USA | 32,119,557 |
| South Korea | 13,386,211 |
| Hong Kong | 12,740,962 |
| Thailand | 9,344,156 |
| Germany | 7,374,573 |
| Taiwan | 4,969,434 |
| Singapore | 4,662,789 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3,638,496 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3,303,493 |
| Total | 131,673,688 |
| China | 30,912,615 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 11,268,138 |
| Russia | 10,456,780 |
| South Africa | 7,586,446 |
| Thailand | 4,639,219 |
| Canada | 3,796,663 |
| Germany | 3,007,032 |
| USA | 2,777,421 |
| South Korea | 2,421,761 |
| Taiwan | 1,627,593 |
| Total | 78,493,668 |
Tsuruga Harbor
Being the closest port to Japan's two main coastal economic centers (the Kinki region of Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara and the Chuukyou region consisting of Nagoya and environs), availed with a traffic network featuring ample highway and rail connections,Tsuruga Harbor is an invaluable asset to domestic freight transport.
Overseas freight and cargo are also well handled with established sea routes linking Tsuruga Harbor to South Korea's Ulsan and Pusan, as well as to China's Dandong, Dalian, Qingtao, and Tianjin.