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- Bandai Bridge (萬代橋) Six reinforced-concrete arches from 1929: they withstood the Niigata earthquake of 1964.
- Befco Bakauke Observation Deck (Toki Messe) On the 31st floor of Toki Messe, 125 metres up: a free view, and a name taken from a rice cracker.
- Former Saitō Family Villa The garden's stone waterfall, 3.8 metres high, uses Ebigaori stone and red Sado stone.
- Imayotsukasa Brewery Founded in 1897, it is the brewery closest to the station: a free 30-minute tour.
- Kagura Ski Resort The Dragondola links it to Naeba: 5,481 metres, the longest in the world in 2002.
- Kikkawa — Murakami's thousand-year salmon (千年鮭きっかわ) In the 130-year-old house, about a thousand salted salmon hang from the beams for weeks.
- Kiyotsu Canyon Tunnel (清津峡渓谷トンネル) In 2018 Ma Yansong remade the tunnel: shallow water mirrors the canyon, 750 m.
- Myōkō Suginohara Ski Resort With a 1,124 m vertical drop and runs of up to 8.5 km, it holds the Japanese record for length.
- Naeba Ski Resort The Fuji Rock stage has been here since 1999, on the slope that has a 900 m vertical drop in winter.
- Nagaoka Grand Fireworks Festival (長岡まつり大花火大会) At 22:30 on 1 August, the hour of the 1945 bombing, three white shakudama go up.
- Niigata Aquarium — Marinpia Nihonkai Opened in 1990, it houses 600 species; about seventy penguins live on the penguin beach.
- Niigata Manga and Anime Museum (新潟市マンガ・アニメ情報館) On the ground floor of Bandai City BP2, at Chūō-ku, Yachiyo 2-5-7, about 11 minutes on foot from Niigata Station. In 2018 it joined the ‘88…
- Ninjō Yokochō (にいがた人情横丁) Born in 1951 from street vendors evicted from the centre: today 38 shops in 160 metres.
- Northern Culture Museum (北方文化博物館) Rather than give up the villa to the 1946 land reform, the Itō family made it a museum.
- Pia Bandai The fish market here closed in 2007; in 2010 it reopened on the same quay.
- Ponshukan — Echigo-Yuzawa Station In the station's bath you soak in sake: 950 yen, with no need to book.
- Ryotsu, Sado Island (両津・佐渡島) Special screenings of the film have been held at Sado's local cinema, with the staff present.
- Sado Gold Mine (史跡佐渡金山) Active from 1601 to 1989: in its peak year, 1940, it produced 1,500 kg of gold.
- Sasagawa-nagare (笹川流れ) Eleven kilometres of cliffs and caves, a Natural Monument since 1927: you tour them by boat.
- Sumiyoshi Beach (住吉海岸) — Sado The Jugetsukan ryokan (寿月館, 住吉229) is the reference point used by pilgrims, 390 m to the east.
- Takahan — the inn of ‘Yukiguni’ (雪国の宿高半) In the ‘Kasuminoma’ room, now a literary museum, Kawabata wrote ‘Snow Country’.
- Tanaka Fumio Library (Tsumari) Opened in 2007 in a former community centre in Shimojo, the library holds the research on the rural houses of Akiyama gathered over fifty…
- Teradomari Fish Market Street (寺泊魚の市場通り) Open 8:30–17:00 every day of the year: here they call it ‘the Ameyoko of fish’.
- Tsukioka Onsen — Bijin no Izumi (月岡温泉 美人の泉) Emerald green from the sulphur: water at 51°C, among the most sulphurous in Japan.
- Yahiko Shrine (彌彦神社) The great torii, 30 metres tall, was the tallest in Japan when it went up in 1982.