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.

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.

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.

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

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

Good-old traditional Shina soba

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

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

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

Learn about the culture of Niigata

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

Take some time to relax in the old entertainment quarter

Shop at the market where locals flock

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

You can see Japanese crested ibis up close

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