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.

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

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

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

Good-old traditional Shina soba

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

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

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

Learn about the culture of Niigata

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

Shop at the market where locals flock

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

A symbolic bridge crossing the Shinano River