Best around Niigata Spot List

Japan's largest gold mine, which began operating in the Edo Period. You can see mining tunnels and remains of mining from back then.

An annual large-scale fireworks festival held on August 2 and 3. The large firework rings brighten up the night sky.

Take up the challenge of the ski tour in the triple zone ski area with it's excellent quality of snow, long trails and long season.

A vast park crafted on the site of Takada Castle. Known as a great viewing spot for cherry blossoms, the park is embellished with about 4,000 cherry trees in April.

A symbolic bridge crossing the Shinano River

Good-old traditional Shina soba

A Dutch-style garden surrounding a pond, located next to the Niigata Hakusan-jinja Shrine

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

Take some time to relax in the old entertainment quarter

A food market where you can find all kinds of ”tastiness” in Niigata

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

Shop at the market where locals flock

It is 5km or 10 minutes by taxi from Myoko-kogen station of Echigo train! Dynamic slopes lay over Mt. Myoko.

Soak in the therapeutic spring waters of the private spring at the sister ryokan, Yumeya

An historic shrine favored as a place of rest and relaxation by locals

A Japanese restaurant popular for its seasonal seafood dishes

The only inn in the area where you can feel an atmosphere of tradition and relax by soaking in a bath surrounded by the grand nature