[Niigata] Sado Gold Mine Historic Site - Sado Gold Mine Course Admission Ticket (Sado City, Niigata Prefecture)

• Located on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, the Sado Gold Mine is one of Japan's largest gold mines, having been in operation from the Edo period through the Showa period.
• The Aikawa Gold and Silver Mine, the main mine of the Sado Island Gold Mine, a World Heritage Site, is open to the public.
• You can see hand-dug tunnels from the Edo period and machine-dug tunnels from the Meiji period onwards.
• The remains of the hand-mined mines from the Edo period give a good idea of what gold and silver mining was like at the time.
• You can visit Doyu-no-Warito, a former gold and silver mining site where the top of the mountain appears to have been split off.
• You can see miniature exhibits that recreate the process from mining gold and silver to refining the ore and making oval coins.
• Touch a 12.5kg gold bar.
  
• You can see an exhibition of "Sado koban" coins that were actually made in Sado during the Edo period.
  

Purchase your Sado Gold Mine admission ticket online in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture! With KKday, you can easily experience the former gold mining site, Sado Gold Mine.