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.

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.

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

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

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

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

A symbolic bridge crossing the Shinano River

Shop at the market where locals flock

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

A luxurious facility that mimics a Noh stage

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

Good-old traditional Shina soba

A Japanese restaurant popular for its seasonal seafood dishes

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

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

You can see Japanese crested ibis up close