Niimi

Top Things to do

• Niimi Museum of Art

  3.5

  9 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Nishigata 361

  This art museum is located in Nishigata, Niimi City. Centered on about 80 pieces by the literary painter Tomioka Tessai, It holds approximately 1,100 works of art such as modern Japanese paintings, Western paintings and crafts by artists in connection with their hometown. You can interact with the natural of Niimi throughout the four seasons through the garden in the museum and the view from the cafe.

• Cave Ikura

  3.5

  3 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Ikura 409

  A limestone cave 1,200 meters long and with a total elevation difference of 90 meters located in scenic Ikura Gorge in Ikura, Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture. The entrance to the cave is on a 240 meter tall limestone precipice. The cave was formed by rainwater erosion and features such as a 50 meter tall waterfall and icicle-like stalactites give the cavernous spaces within it a mystical quality. Visitors can view some 30 rare and unusually shaped stones and rock formations that are both strange and beautiful, such as the “Silver Screen,” “Water Clothing,” and “Jellyfish Stone.” Arisa no Miya, a shrine dedicated to a woman who suffered unrequited love and who is now revered as a goddess granting worshipers luck in love and marriage, stands at the cave’s exit.

• Ibuki no Sato Ski Resort

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Chiyahanami 1336-1

  This ski resort is located along National Route 180 in the Chiya Hanami area of Niimi City. Besides having five courses, a snowboard park and kids park, there are facilities such as restaurants, rental houses and nursery rooms. It is also adjacent to the Niimi Chiya Onsen Ibuki no Sato hot spring accommodation facility that can be used for day-trips.

• Osayama Autocamp Ground

  4.5

  3 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Osakominami 1

  This automobile campsite is located in Osakominami, Niimi City. Besides the free-range area and compartment sites, the campsite has large lodges, trailer houses, permanent tents and pet sites, in addition to a visitor house outside the site. You can enjoy activities such as cave hunting, paragliding, canoeing and shower trekking, as well as snow picnics and Japanese igloos experiences in the winter.

• Hakubi

  4.0

  11 Reviews

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Nishigata 469-1

  "This local restaurant is located approximately a one-minute walk from JR Niimi Station. It is a long-established restaurant founded in 1929 that is often featured in the media and popular with not only local residents but also tourists. Their ""Bicchu Matsuri Sushi"" with whole mackerel sushi is a popular menu item that has kept the same taste since the store's founding. Their sturgeon dishes using fresh caviar, famous as one of the world's top three delicacies, and shabu-shabu hot pot with Japan's oldest cattle breed ""Chiya-gyu"" are also recommended."

• Maki-do Cave

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Toyonagakouma 2276-2

  A limestone cave on a karst plateau in Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture designated a Natural Monument by Okayama Prefecture. Said to have been found by a hunter in the Edo period, the cave’s name, meaning “full of mysteries,” is derived from a poem written by married poets Tekkan and Akiko Yosano in 1929. The cave is around 450 meters long in total and 25 meters wide at its widest point, and its graceful spaces are filled with sights to see, including one of Japan’s best examples of a rimstone terrace formation; an underground lake named the “Palace of Dreams;” and countless soda straws, stalactites, and stalagmites.

• Koigakubo Marsh

  Okayama Pref. Nimishi Tesseichouyada

  This marsh is located in the Yada area of Tessei-cho, Niimi City. Spread over approximately 3.6 hectares, around 380 varieties of plants grow there naturally including rare species such as ogura-senno (a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae) and bicchu-furo (geranium yoshinoi), and it has been designated a national natural monument as the Koigakubo Marsh Plant Community. There is a promenade in the whole area where you can walk through nature.

• Roadside Station Koigakubo

  3.5

  8 Reviews

  Okayama Niimi-shi Tesseicho Yada 3585-1

• Niimi Municipal Chuo Library

  4.5

  4 Reviews

  Okayama Niimi Niimi 123-2