Best around Niigata Spot List

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.

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

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

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

Special local products such as sake, rice, and koji (aspergillus oryzae) are lined up

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

Good-old traditional Shina soba

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

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

An aquarium where you'll learn from seeing, touching and playing

Learn about the culture of Niigata

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

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

You can see Japanese crested ibis up close

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

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

Take some time to relax in the old entertainment quarter

Shop at the market where locals flock