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Top 7 sights in Sado

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   Watatsu Shrine

   A Shinto shrine at Hamochi-Ioka in Sado in Niigata prefecture. It was the ichinomiya, the first-ranked shrine, of the old province of Sado, and holds its great festival on 23 April each year.

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   Lake Kamo

   A brackish lake on Sado island in the Sea of Japan, the largest in Niigata prefecture. It was fresh until the Meiji era, when it was opened to the sea to control flooding and turned salt.

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   Mount Kongō

   A mountain of 962.2 metres on Sado island in Niigata prefecture, with the Sado mine and Mount Kinpoku nearby.

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   Rengebu-ji Temple

   A temple of the Chizan branch of Shingon in southern Sado island. Kūkai is said to have founded it in the ninth century, and several well-preserved old buildings in its grounds are designated important cultural properties.

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   Mount Kinpoku

   A mountain of 1,171.9 metres in Sado, Niigata prefecture, Japan — the highest point on Sado island. It rises in the middle of the Ōsado range.

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   Sado Kokubun-ji Temple

   A Shingon temple in Sado in Niigata prefecture. Its principal image is a Yakushi, and it continues the provincial temple founded there by Emperor Shōmu in the Nara period.

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   Art and Natural History Museum of Sado

   A museum at Yahata in Sado, Niigata prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1957 with funding from Niigata Kotsu and others, and has been run by the city since 2014.

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