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Toki Messe
Niigata's Waterfront Tower with Panoramic Views
Niigata's tallest building with a free observation deck on the 31st floor offering 360-degree vie...
Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
The World's Largest Outdoor Art Festival
Spanning 760 square kilometers of rural Niigata, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field is the world's larg...
Sado Island Gold Mine
Once Japan's largest gold mine producing gold for the Tokugawa shogunate, the Sado Island Gold Mi...
Niigata City
The Sake Capital of Japan
A vibrant port city on the Sea of Japan coast, Niigata is renowned as the sake capital of Japan w...
Myoko Kogen
A Mountain Resort with Waterfalls and Hot Springs
A scenic highland area at the base of Mount Myoko, known for the dramatic Naena Falls, natural ho...
Sado Island
Japan's sixth largest island with gold mines, traditional performing arts, and rugged coastal sce...
Ponshukan
A Sake Tasting Museum Inside a Train Station
A unique sake tasting facility inside Echigo-Yuzawa Station offering samples from all of Niigata'...
Michi-no-Eki Arai
A big food stop shared by Route 18 and the expressway
On Route 18 in Myoko, next to the Arai parking area and smart interchange of the Joshin-etsu Expr...
Michi-no-Eki Marine Dream Nou
Red snow crab stalls beside a Sea of Japan fishing port
A Route 8 station next to Nou fishing port, known for Kaniya Yokocho, a row of stalls boiling and...
Yahiko Shrine
Bow Twice, Clap Four Times at Echigo's First Shrine Below Mount Yahiko
The first-ranked shrine of the old Echigo province, at the foot of 634 m Mount Yahiko, whose summ...
Michi-no-Eki Sasagawa Nagare
Sea-salt soft serve on the Sasagawa Nagare coast road
Niigata's northernmost roadside station sits on Route 345 beside JR Kuwagawa Station, right on th...
Nishimikawa Placer Gold Mine
Nishimikawa, the Gold Field Sado City Calls the Island's Oldest: Red Hillsides Washed Away for Gold and the Farming Hamlet of Sasagawa
The placer gold field around the hamlet of Sasagawa in south-west Sado, which Sado City calls the...