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Sado Gold Mine
It underpinned the finances of the Edo shogunate. Hand-cut tunnels and the split peak of Doyu remain.
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Toki Forest Park
Japan's wild crested ibis died out, and reintroduction began from here.
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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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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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Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.
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Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
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Tsubame Industrial Museum
A metalworking town's archive, following a single copper sheet as hammering turns it into a vessel.
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Fukiya Koji Memorial Museum
For an illustrator whose lyrical girls filled Taisho magazines, in a white building by Shozo Uchii.
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Ryokan Memorial Museum
The calligraphy of a begging monk whose deliberately artless line reshaped modern Japanese writing.
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Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.
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Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
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Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
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Niigata Prefectural Forest Research Institute
The prefecture's forest research institute. It researches the resistance of Japanese cedar to snow damage and afforestation in heavy-snow areas.