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The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum

4.0

32 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Bandaijima 5-1 Toki Messe within the Manijima building 5F

You’ll find this art museum on the fifth floor of the Toki Messe Bandaijima Building in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. It is a branch of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in Nagaoka City. Together, both buildings have a combine total of over 6,000 items, including works by artists with ties to Niigata as well as postwar modern art and art from other parts of Asia. There are no permanent exhibitions; about five or six exhibitions are held each year, rotating between planned exhibitions and collection showcases. There’s also a shop where you can purchase illustrated books of the collections and other museum goods.

ドラえもん展の見学も旅の目的の一つでしたが、様々なアーティストの方々がドラえもんをオマージュした内容でとても見応えがありました。
Niigata Gokoku-jinja Shrine

4.0

27 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Nishifunamichou 5932-300

This shrine surrounded by a pine tree forest is a 20-minute drive from Niigata Chuo Interchange. It was founded in 1868 in Tokiwaoka, Niigata City (currently the Niigata University Faculty of Medicine in Ichibancho, Asahimachi, Chuo Ward, Niigata City) as a shrine dedicated to the spirits of the war dead. A municipal promenade has been built next to the grounds of the shrine, making it a popular place for a walk. The shrine holds thrice-monthly festivals on the 1st, 8th, and 15th of each month. During the festivals, the shrine's priests make ritual prayers to calm the divine spirits and wish for renewed tranquility and health. The shrine hosts kyudo (Japanese archery), youth sumo, setsudando (a form of swordsmanship), jukendo (bayonet fighting), and kenmaido (sword dance) competitions. One of its most popular events is the kodomo mikoshi (a portable shrine carried by children), which is held on Children's Day every year.

新潟駅前からのバスと徒歩で約30分間、寄居浜と西浜の間、水族館等がある西海岸公園に隣接する郷土兵士を慰霊する神社。広く長い参道の両側には戦友会等が建立した慰霊碑が数多く立ち並ぶ。御神門の先の境内は広く社殿は立派なものであった。
Suntopia World

4.0

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Agano Ichikubo 1-1

2020年に開業45年を迎えるサントピアワールドは、旧名「安田アイランド」。昭和の時代から多くのファミリーに愛されてきた遊園地です。今も多くの子供たちに愛されています。幼稚園児-小学校低学年のお子さんを連れて行くにはうってつけのレジャー施設ではないでしょうか。
Fukuju Hot Spring Jonnobikan

3.5

11 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Nishikan-ku Fukui 4067

This hot spring in Fukui, Nishikan Ward Niigata City is well-known for their fireflies. Come enjoy the western style Heike baths or the Japanese style Genji baths. There is also a huge 117 tatami mat sized banquet hall as well as massage and relaxing rooms. Located near the entry to the hiking trail going up Mt Kakudayama this is the perfect place for those tired and sore after hiking. During the summer you can view the fireflies in the nearby Firefly Village Park, and with the bath house being near the sea just off National Route 460 it's easy to drop in after a day at the beach.

平日午後5:00から割引なのでそれを狙って行ってみました。同じようにこの時間を狙っている方々が駐車場で待機してます。サウナが高温でよかったですね。最近は低温が多いので気持ちよく入れました。
Niigata Agri Park

4.0

12 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Niigata Niigata-shi Minami-ku Higashikasamakishinden 3044

農業関連のいろいろな体験ができるのがこの施設の売りですが、何も目的がないと、直売所も小さくてあまり面白くはないです。同じ新潟市の中央区に「いくとぴあ」というこちらの施設とややコンセプトが被った施設がありますが、ほぼ同時期にオープンしたのに、どうして２つに分けたのか・・・１つにまとめればいいのに。相互の施設が小粒になった感じが否めません。新潟市民としては税金の無駄遣い的なイメージがあります。
Enkikan

4.0

21 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Ichibanboridoricho 1-2 Hakusan Park Uchi

This historic structure, moved to Hakusan Park, is a portion of the former residence of Saito Kijuro, a wealth merchant who was active from the Meiji through the Showa periods. Since it was opened to the public, it has been used as a space for promoting the tea ceremony, flower arranging, and a variety of other Japanese cultural arts. Every part of its Meiji period architecture, from the stylish inner parlor, to the arcing jibukuro floor cupboard and detailed transoms, speak of the splendor of a bygone age. Today, the structure is open to the general public for viewing and is also frequently used as a space for private enterprises such as concerts and children’s Zen meditation classes.

白山公園内にある、豪商斎藤喜十郎家の邸宅です。1908年頃に建てられた建物を移築したもので、なかでも奥座敷や土縁から、建物としての美しさを感じ取ることができるかと思います。
Northern Culture Museum Niigata Branch

3.5

22 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Minamihama Dori 2-562

This building was acquired at the end of the Edo period by the seventh head of the Ito family, the wealthiest landowners in Echigo, to serve as the family’s Niigata villa. Niigata-born poet and calligrapher Aizu Yaichi also famously spent his last years here. Today, the compound is used as a museum which displays works by Yaichi and other artists, and here visitors can view Yaichi’s poems and calligraphic pieces along with a view of a traditional Japanese garden. The Zabo and Seigyoan tearooms on the first floor can be used to host tea ceremony and other events. An elegant time can be spent in the sanjo-daime-style tearooms.

１８９５年の建造された建物で、大正時代に七代伊藤文吉が別邸として購入したそうです。新潟分館は主屋と洋館からなっており、戦後、夕刊ニイガタの社長となった會津八一が洋館で晩年を過ごしました。會津八一の書や資料などが展示されています。
The Niigata City Manga House

4.0

20 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Furumachidori 6 - Town 971 - 7

Niigata has produced several manga and anime artists, and this facility aims to hand down Niigata’s manga and anime culture to future generations. Located in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, this facility’s permanent exhibit introduces the works of Niigata gag manga artists Fujio Akatsuka, Maya Mineo, Motoei Shinzawa, and Endo Koichi. There are life-size figures of the characters as well as photo booths. The “manga room” contains about 10,000 precious out-of-print works that you can read at your leisure.

古町通六番町と東堀通の間にあります。入館は無料です。中には、新潟ゆかりの漫画家作品だけではなく、多くの漫画が書架にあり、まるで図書館のように自由に読むことが出来ます（借りて行くことは出来ないようですが）。きっと、一日中居ても飽きないと思います。嬉しかったのは、何十年かぶりに、3年奇面組とすすめパイレーツを読めた事でした。
Roadside Station - Niigata Furusato Village

Transportation

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Nishi-ku Yamada 2307

Niigata Furusato Village is a large-scale roadside service area located on National Route 8 in Yamada, Nishi Ward, Niigata City. The complex includes the Bazaar Hall, which has shops selling Niigata specialty products and handicrafts and restaurants where visitors can enjoy local cuisine, the Appeal Hall, where visitors can learn about Niigata’s history and culture and visit the tourist information office, and which also has shops and a café, flower fields where seasonal flowers can be viewed, a traditional Japanese-style garden, and the all-weather Greenhouse building which houses a large adventure playground for children. Niigata Furusato Village also hosts a wide range of special events, including Morning Markets.
Minato Inari Shrine

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Inarimachi 3482

Records state this ancient Shinto shrine was started when its first head priest enshrined an oracle from Yonezawa in Dew Province here. Frequented by the workers of the nearby red-light district at the end of the Edo period, even today the shrine is still nicknamed the “Debauched Inari.” The shrine is famous for its “wish-granting” komainu lion-dog statues, which are said to grant one’s wish when walked around. The current statues are the third pair to have been erected. The second pair, bearing an inscription stating they were created in 1630, were designated Niigata City’s very first Tangible Cultural Property. According to custom, men walk around the statue on the right side when facing the shrine and women the left; it is said that one’s wish will be granted if one thinks of one’s wish while walking around the appropriate statue.

新潟市歴史博物館から徒歩5分の場所、初代宮司が出羽国の米沢より新潟の地を開拓するようにとの御神託を授かりご鎮座した神社。境内は正面に拝殿と本殿、左側には能楽殿が、有名な願懸の高麗犬は左側を女性が、右側を男性が回し願掛けを行う。
Agano River Line Boat Ride

4.0

19 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Higashikambaragunagamachi Ishima 4301

This is a 40-minute round trip river cruise down the Agano River. The boats depart every hour, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., from the Roadside Station Aga no sato, along National Route 49. The cruise is accompanied by a talk from the ferryman and with cheerful boating songs. Also not to be missed is the beautiful valley of Okuaga, one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan. In the spring and summer, the valley is covered with flowers, burning autumn leaves in the fall, and a blanket of snow in the winter. The winter landscape is especially fantastic, the carpet of snow seeming as if it had come out of an ink painting.

紅葉の時期に合わせて行きました。舟下りということですが、最上川や猊鼻渓などの舟下りをイメージして行くとがっかりします。道の駅を起点にエンジンのついた船でぐるっと周回するだけなので、特に風情もなく、景色もごく普通です。他の方の口コミに船頭さんが面白く歌も上手と書いてありますが、私たちの船はびっくりするぐらい音痴な方でした。あまりに音程を外されるので船内はそれなりに笑いで盛り上がっていましたが、200...
Kitsune no Yomeiri Yashiki

3.5

19 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Higashikambaragunagamachi Tsugawa 3501-1

This is a tourist facility in Tsugawa, Aga, Higashi Kanbara, Niigata Prefecture, famous for kitsunebi (floating orbs of light). Every year on the third of May exhibitions and local souvenirs on the theme of “Tsugawa Fox’s Marriage Procession” are displayed and sold. “Tsunagawa Fox’s Marriage Procession” is an event where the bride imitates the movements of a fox while walking along a night road, reproducing marriage processions of the Edo period. Inside the hall visitors can see a reproduction diorama, enjoy making a fox mask and a fox makeup experience.

津川の、常浪川と阿賀野川の合流部にあります。駐車場はありますが、停められる台数は少ないです。昔、代官所があった所の跡地に建てられたそうです。休日はツアーの団体さん訪れ、一過性ですが混雑する時間帯があります。入場は無料です。一階は売店と軽食スタンドがあります。二階は大広間があり、狐の嫁入りに関する資料が幾つか展示されています。三階には展望室があります。軽食スタンドは、団体さんの弁当作...
Niigata Sta.

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Hanazono 1-chome 1-1
Next 21 Observation Lounge

3.5

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Nishiboridori 6-866

This observation deck is in the NEXT 21 high-rise, in Nishiboridori 6-bancho, Chuo Ward, Niigata City. The top floor is 101 meters high, offering a view from Niigata city all the way to the Sea of Japan. It's open until 23:30 pm for beautiful views of sunset and the night skyline.

かつて、新潟奉行所、新潟県庁舎、新潟市役所があった新潟の中心地に建つランドマークビルの展望台です。高さ１０１ｍの展望ラウンジからは、新潟市街地や信濃川河口、西海岸越しに日本海が見渡せ、新潟の広がり、発展を感じられる場所です。古町エリアの見どころとして、是非、訪ねてみてください。
Shiro Ne Odako To History no Yakata

4.5

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Niigata Niigata-shi Minami-ku Jogesuwanoki 1770-1

Coming from the west, kites dont always seem exciting.... but this museum was one of the coolest things Ive seen on my trip to Japan! I was so impressed that I plan on going back next year for the...
Takarayama Shuzo

4.5

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Nishikan-ku Ishize 2953

The Takarayama Shuzo brewery is a sake (rice wine) brewery located in Ishize, Nishikan Ward, Niigata City that was founded in 1885. Takarayama produces sakes that include the Seishu (a class of superior special-designation sake) “Takarayama” sake made using Niigata-grown Koshitanrei rice (a rice strain specially developed for sake-brewing) and the “Precious Treasure Takara no Yama” sake that is offered to the gods at the Yahiko-jinja Shrine. Free guided tours of the brewery are available twice a day (once in the morning and once in the afternoon), although advance booking is required. Participants can see how sake is made, and can also taste freshly-brewed, authentic Japanese sake.

昔ながらの酒蔵見学ができます。歴史を感じる素敵な酒蔵です。女将さんが丁寧に説明してくださり、最後は試飲タイム。何でも飲ませてもらえますので、思わず大量に買ってしまいますが、宅配もしてもらえるので心配いりません。フレッシュないちごを使った甘酒が珍しく、お土産にも喜ばれました。私は午後15時からの見学でしたが、酒蔵ならではの米を蒸す午前中の方が見ごたえがあるそうですので、行かれるなら朝早い時間がお薦め...
Pier Bandai

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Bandaijima 2

Pier Bandai is the largest fresh food market along the Sea of Japan with a seafood center and farmer’s market. Thanks to its cafeterias, kaiten-zushi (conveyor belt sushi), and ramen shops, this is becoming a place to fully appreciate Niigata’s foods. There is also a BBQ area where all the necessary materials are supplied, so guests can borrow a BBQ set (for a fee) and enjoy cooking the food they have just purchased on site. The facility has an excellent location set in the heart of Niigata City.
Fruit Land Shirone Grape Garden

5.0

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Minami-ku Washinokishinden 573

This all-weather farm is 15-minutes from the Kurosaki Interchange. This is the oldest organic farm in Niigata growing fruits from all seasons with minimal use of pesticides. Along with being able to pick fruit year-round you can enjoy their original fruit pizza baked in their own lava-stone oven. You can also feed and play with their goats and rabbits as well as enjoy a BBQ under the grape vines in the vineyard.

可以來這裏體驗適合親子的任摘水果活動。從1月到6月都是士多啤梨時期，另外還有葡萄、奇異果、蜜柑、藍莓、櫻桃、桃、無花果、梨等可採。其中於11-12月限定，可以採摘到名為「幻の洋梨」的梨種類。
Sushi-Benkei (Niigata Pier Bandai Store)

4.0

278 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Bandaijima In 2-4 peers bandai

This popular kaiten-zushi restaurant sources all of its fish and rice from Sado. It is located in Pier Bandai, in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. The restaurant expertly selects fish freshly caught in the morning off the coast of Sado, and uses them that very same day. The many different types of sushi prepared by the chefs in front of their customers are a harmony of fresh fish and plump, glossy rice. For customers interested in the individual dishes, the salt-grilled blackthroat perch and assorted sashimi set are popular. There are both table seating and counter seats available, and the restaurant is very convenient for families and group.

This is my favourite sushi restaurant in Niigata. Though you ave to wait in line for a while( sometimes an hour), it’s worth waiting. You have 3 options of seating. Sushi counter when you are alone...
Nuttari Terrace Shopping street

3.5

4 Reviews

Shopping

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Nuttari-higashi

最初裏の通りを歩いていたのですが、随分と古い建物が有るなという感じでした。ただ表に回ると外壁は古いですが、内部を現代的に改造したお店が複数ありました。活気が戻ってほしいですね。

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Niigata Areas

Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.