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新潟県 · Art & museums

River Terraces of Tsunan

津南町 中越

Nine river terraces stacked above one another - among Japan's largest, a staircase cut by water.

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Terraces of Matsunoyama

十日町市 中越

Contoured rice terraces covering a heavy-snow hillside - the ground on which the art festival places its works.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Mokujiki Buddhas

柏崎市 中越

Rough-hewn smiling Buddhas by the wandering monk Mokujiki, rediscovered by Soetsu Yanagi.

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Teradomari

長岡市 中越

A port of call for the Kitamae trading ships, keeping its highway townhouses and its beachfront market.

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Hyoko Lake Waterfowl Park

A pond in Agano, a Ramsar wetland, where large numbers of swans arrive in winter.

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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.