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.

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 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.

The tare katsu cooked wholeheartedly enjoys high popularity

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

A luxurious facility that mimics a Noh stage

A symbolic bridge crossing the Shinano River

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

A shop known throughout the country for its jarred salmon flakes

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

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

Reproducing the traditional Hatago (inn) with a quaint atmosphere

One of Tsukioka's most luxurious inns

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

Shop at the market where locals flock

Good-old traditional Shina soba

Enjoy the tasting of sake from breweries in Echigo

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