- Fukui Prefecture accounts for about 80% of dinosaur fossils excavated in Japan and is called the Dinosaur Kingdom Fukui.
- Over 90% of Japan's domestic eyeglass frame market share comes from Sabae City, which also produces OEM for world luxury brands.
- Maruoka Castle keep is one of the 12 remaining castle keeps and is considered one of Japan's oldest.
- The prefecture's total fertility rate ranks among the nation's highest, known as a child-rearing-friendly prefecture.
- Kehi Matsubara is one of Japan's three great pine groves, boasting about 1.5km length and approximately 17,000 pine trees.
- Echizen crab, released in winter, is a premium brand snow crab also presented to the imperial family.
- A restaurant in Fukui City claims to be the birthplace of sauce katsudon, featuring thin batter and Worcestershire-style sauce.
- The prefecture's dialect, Fukui-ben, has a soft sound adding endings like ~yaza and ~no.
- Fukui City's downtown was over 90% destroyed in the 1948 Fukui earthquake but achieved recovery in just a few years.
- Obama City was featured in world media as a town that unofficially supported former US President Obama.
- Prefectural residents' newspaper subscription rate ranks first nationally (Ministry of Education survey), indicating high information sensitivity.
- The prefecture has 15 nuclear reactors, the most in Japan, earning the nickname Nuclear Ginza.
- The old post town Kumagawa-juku is the largest station on the Saba Kaido (mackerel road), preserving continuous Edo-period townscapes.
- As snow country measures, igloo-shaped bus stops dot along national roads in the Wakasa region.
- Ichihomare is a new variety developed by Fukui, birthplace of Koshihikari, with strong sweetness and stickiness.