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新潟県 · Regional selections

Hoshitoge Rice Terraces, Echigo-Matsudai

Terraced paddies at Matsudai in Tokamachi, some 200 plots overlapping the slope like scales.

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Bogachi Lake Lakeside Park

A pond at about 500 metres on a summit in Joetsu, with a dragon-god legend attached.

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Toki-no-Mori Park

A centre in Sado for the crested ibis, where you can watch the birds and see how they were saved.

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Minato-no-Marche Pier Bandai

A market by Niigata port. Among the largest on the Sea of Japan coast, gathering seafood and local produce.

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Tsukioka Onsen

A hot spring opened in 1915. Its sulphur content is among the highest in Japan, and the water looks green.

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Mount Yahiko

A 634-metre mountain. From the summit you see the Echigo plain, the Sea of Japan and as far as Sado Island.

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Kiyotsu gorge / Tunnel of Light

A gorge in Tokamachi. At the end of a pedestrian tunnel, a space of still water mirrors the view.

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北方文化博物館

The mansion of a wealthy landowner in Niigata, opening the Ito family house, garden and art collection.

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Teradomari Fish Market Street

A street at Teradomari in Nagaoka, lined with fish shops that grill the catch at the front.

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Ponshukan Echigo-Yuzawa Station Store

A shop in Echigo-Yuzawa Station where you can taste the prefecture's sake, with rice crackers and foods.

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Takaryu Shrine

A shrine in the hills of Nagaoka, revered as a god of fortune, drawing worshippers from across Japan.

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Tsubame-Sanjo Factory Outlet Stock Busters

A shop in Tsubame-Sanjo, a metalworking district, selling knives and kitchenware including seconds.

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Sasagawa Nagare

A shore in Murakami where the waves of the Sea of Japan have cut strange rocks and caves over 11 kilometres.

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Bijin-no-Izumi Public Bath (Fountain of Beauty)

The communal bathhouse at the centre of Tsukioka Onsen, with greenish sulphur water.

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Saifukuji Temple

A temple in Uonuma founded in 1534, its hall filled with the carvings of Untetsu Ishikawa.

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Roadside Station Hanamuko niitsu

A roadside station in Niigata, laying out some 40,000 potted plants and flowering shrubs at any time.

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春日山神社

A shrine on Mount Kasuga in Joetsu, built in 1901 and honouring Uesugi Kenshin.

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Mikuni Highway Shiozawa-juku Makino-dori

A street at Shiozawa in Minamiuonuma, recreating an Edo post town with the gangi arcades of snow country.

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Tsugawa Onsen Kiyokawa Kogen Recreation Center

A hot-spring facility in Aga, with generous flow and thick, smooth water.

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Shiori Pass

A pass on National Route 352 in Uonuma, known for the sea of clouds that forms at dawn.

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Roadside Station Niigata Furusato Village

A roadside station in Niigata, among the largest in the prefecture, gathering food, local goods and travel information.

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Echigo Ichinomiya Yahiko Shrine

The first shrine of Echigo, in Yahiko. Called Oyahiko-sama, it draws crowds at the New Year.

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Agano River Line Sightseeing Boat

A sightseeing boat from Aga, touring the Agano River gorge in about 40 minutes.

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Bijinbayashi

A beech wood at Matsunoyama in Tokamachi, where the trees grew up together after felling in the late Taisho years.