Megane Museum

**Book the workshop.** Making your own acetate frames takes several hours under a craftsman and is the single best thing here. It needs advance booking and is charged separately from the free entry. **Buy from the shop rather than the museum.** The retail floor carries makers from across Sabae, including small workshops with no other outlet, and staff will fit and adjust. This is a better place to buy Japanese frames than Tokyo. **Closed Wednesdays.** Except when the Wednesday is a holiday, and it stays open through Obon. **Understand the winter-work origin.** Frames are made here because Sabae is buried in snow for months and someone in 1905 needed indoor work for farmers. It is a very Hokuriku kind of industrial history. **Fifteen minutes from Fukui.** On the Hokuriku Line, walkable from Sabae Station. It works as a half-day out of Fukui city.