Best around Niigata Spot List

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.

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 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

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

Shop at the market where locals flock

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

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

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

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

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

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

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

Good-old traditional Shina soba

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