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Besides rice production, Niigata Prefecture’s abundant snowmelt also makes the reg…

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Aga-machi is known for its fox bride procession.Kitsune no Yomeiri Yashiki is a themed f…

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Onogame is a giant, turtle-shaped monolith standing 167 metres above ground level plungi…

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Tour a factory that makes folding screens, a traditional industry of Kamo City.You can s…

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“Senkaku Bay” is the collective name for five small interlinked bays that st…

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This park offers a taste of Japan with its waterfalls, mountain streams, and tunnels.Loc…

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Tsubame City is famous as a city of manufacturing that is home to highly advanced and di…

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The tarai bune is one of Sado’s most famous sights. Originally used as washtubs, t…

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Tokamachi Snow Festival was born from the ideas of local people to “befriend the s…

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Akiyamago is a small hamlet in the Nakatsu river valley. Enclosed by the steep mountains…

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The Kikusui Brewery has opened the Kikusui Sake Culture Institute to the public, which h…

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Interact with seagulls! You can enjoy feeding them from the boat.・Super-fun entertainme…

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Kuriyama Beika is the company behind the famous Bakauke brand rice crackers. Here, you c…

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A beautiful beech forest with many slender trunked trees. It has become known as Bijinba…

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The Ichishima Sake Brewery was founded by the Ichishima family, which were one of the la…

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This grand house was built in 1918 as a family villa by Kijuro Saito IV, a scion of the …

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Awashima is an island with a total circumference of just 23.0km. In Japanese “awa&…

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Shibata Castle Ruins Park is located on the site of the historic Shibata Castle. It has …

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Naena Waterfall has been selected one of Japan’s 100 greatest waterfalls. The forc…

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Sado Island is Japan’s second largest island after the island of Okinawa. This lar…

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Oyu Onsen forms a part of the Yunotani Hot Spring area in Uonuma City. It is a hot sprin…

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Iwamuro Onsen is quiet retreat from Niigata City and a hot spring area with more than 30…

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Sado gold mine was Japan’s largest silver and gold mine in early modern times. The…

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Itoigawa Geopark was the first of its kind in Japan to be designated as a UNESCO Global …

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Sekijyosan Saifukuji Temple was opened in 1534. It attracts so many people thanks to scu…

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In 2020 our winery celebrated its 130th anniversary.One of our stone wine cellars is the…

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Enjoy this river cruise, taking in the varied and ever-changing valley scenery, while li…

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This hot spring area is blessed with two spring sources. One features brownish water tha…

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The Northern Culture Museum is the former residence of a local wealthy farming family. T…

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Tsuiki (hammered) copperware, one of Tsubame City’s traditional metalworking produ…

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The Watanabe Residence is the former house of one of Niigata’s wealthy merchants a…

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Lying at the very southern tip of Sado City, Shukunegi was once a prosperous hub for car…

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The Arakawa Gorge Maple Line, a 20-km-long scenic spot for autumn foliage, stretches fro…

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Murakami City has a long history with salmon, so much so that it is said that the city h…

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This old samurai house is situated close to the remains of Murakami Castle. It is a clas…

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Kasugayama Castle is well-known as the home of Kenshin Uesugi, the famous Sengoku period…

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Matsunoyama Onsen is a small hot spring tucked away in the snowy mountains, where in Jan…

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For farming the terraced rice paddies hewn out of the sloping mountainsides it was once …