Tsuruga Bay

This is the easternmost inlet of Wakasa Bay, located in central Fukui Prefecture. It is a depression whose mouth runs from Cape Tateishi on the Tsuruga Peninsula to the west, to Okazaki in Suizu to the east, and the 20-meter isobath runs along the coast, reaching 11 meters within Tsuruga Port. Apart from the Tsuruga Plain, a depression-like lowland that continues to the south, the bay coast is lacking in flat land, but the landscape of small capes, bays, and sandy beaches makes up Wakasa Bay Quasi-National Park west of Matsubara Coast, and Echizen Kaga Coast Quasi-National Park in Suizu on the east coast. Fishing within the bay is sluggish, and the east coast is entirely made up of farming villages with their backs to the sea.

[Masahiko Shimada]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

福井県中央部、若狭湾(わかさわん)内のもっとも東の湾入。西は敦賀半島の立石(たていし)岬、東は杉津(すいづ)の岡崎を結ぶ線を湾口とする陥没性の湾入で、20メートルの等深線が海岸沿いに走り、敦賀港内でも11メートルに達する。南に続く陥没性低地の敦賀平野を除くと湾岸は平地に乏しいが、小さな岬と湾に砂浜の入り交じる風景が松原海岸以西を若狭湾国定公園、東岸の杉津を越前(えちぜん)加賀海岸国定公園とする。湾内の漁業は不振で、東岸はすべて海を背にする農村である。

［島田正彦］

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