About Fukui City and Fukui Prefecture:

City Population: 251,000
Prefecture Population: 828,000 (ranks 44th out of 47 prefectures in population size)
Map: Go here

Famous Symbol: Narcissus
Famous Tree: Pine
Famous Bird: Thrush
Famous food: Buckwheat Soba noodles
Famous Drink: Local SAKE!
Delicacy: Echizen Sea Urchin (made from the ovaries of the sea urchin)

Travel time to Nagoya: 2 hours
Travel time to Tokyo: 3.5 hours

Festival I'm looking forward to: Firefly Festival in June
Random thing Fukui is famous for: Bamboo
Education: Fukui-ken high school graduates have the 3rd highest rate in Japan of going on to higher education