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.

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.

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

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.

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 Japanese restaurant popular for its seasonal seafood dishes

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

Shop at the market where locals flock

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

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

A symbolic bridge crossing the Shinano River

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

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

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

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