Niigata Prefecture travel guide

Top 9 sights in Niigata Prefecture

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   Christ the King Cathedral, Niigata

   The cathedral of the Catholic diocese of Niigata, dedicated to Christ the King. It serves a diocese covering the Sea of Japan coast, where Christianity arrived late and remains small.

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   Hakusan Park

   One of the first twenty-five public parks laid out in Japan under the decree of 1873, made by the prefect Kusumoto Masataka beside the Hakusan shrine. Its seven hectares of ponds and lotus beds were named a national place of scenic beauty in 2018.

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   Annur Mosque, Niigata

   A mosque in the Nishi ward of Niigata, serving one of the small Muslim communities that have grown up around Japan's provincial universities and factories. A second mosque opened in the Kita ward in 2002.

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   Niigata Prefectural Botanical Garden

   A botanical garden and arboretum of 19.8 hectares in Akiha ward in the city of Niigata in Japan. It holds cherries, more than three hundred varieties of European and North American conifer, and 150 aromatic herbs.

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   Northern Culture Museum

   The house of the Itō family, landowners rich enough to employ hundreds of tenants, opened as a museum in 1946 after the land reform. A hundred-mat hall, a pond garden and the farm buildings are kept as they stood.

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   Furumachi

   The main commercial district of Chūō ward in the city of Niigata. Its name means the old town; it lies south of the Shinano and, with Bandai City on the north bank, forms one of the two retail centres of the city.

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   Bandai City

   A commercial district in Chūō ward in the city of Niigata, on the bank of the Shinano northwest of Niigata station, where the shopping complexes and department stores are concentrated.

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   Furutsu Hachimanyama Site

   A late Yayoi moated settlement at Furutsu in Akiha ward in the city of Niigata, with three burial mounds on the same site. It was designated a national historic site in 2005 and is the northernmost moated settlement on the Sea of Japan coast.

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   Niigata City History Museum

   A museum in Chūō ward in the city of Niigata, also known by the nickname Minatopia.

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