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.

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.

Japan's largest gold mine, which began operating in the Edo Period. You can see mining tunnels and remains of mining from back then.

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.

You can see Japanese crested ibis up close

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

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

Learn about the culture of Niigata

A luxurious facility that mimics a Noh stage

Shop at the market where locals flock

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

An historic garden surrounding austere Japanese residential architecture

Good-old traditional Shina soba

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