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.

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

Shop at the market where locals flock

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

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

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

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

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

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

Take some time to relax in the old entertainment quarter

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

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

You can see Japanese crested ibis up close

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