Niigata
Hakusan Jinja
The tutelary shrine of Niigata, at the heart of a port town that opened out at the mouth of the Shinano river.
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Hakusan Jinja (Niigata)
The tutelary shrine of Niigata, long the guardian of the mouth of the Shinano river.
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Bandaijima Art Museum
On the fifth floor of a tower by the river mouth, sharing one collection with the museum in Nagaoka.
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Niigata City Art Museum
A late work by Kunio Maekawa, its tiled walls kept low along the edge of the park.
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Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum
For the poet and art historian whose blunt, unadorned calligraphy stands apart in modern Japanese writing.
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Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
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Former Saito Family Villa
A merchant's villa built into a dune; the garden came first, and the rooms were placed to look at it.
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Niigata City History Museum
Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.
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Shirone Giant Kite Battle
Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.
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Niigata Lacquerware
Specialising in trick finishes - lacquer made to look exactly like bamboo, or stone, over a wooden body.
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Nuttari Terrace
A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.
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Water and Land Niigata Art Festival
A festival themed on land reclaimed from marsh, asking through art how water and soil made this place.
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Zen Temples and Ink Painting
Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.
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Kakudahama and Old Farmhouses
A village on the dunes, where the direction of every house and windbreak still follows the old rule.