Niigata Prefectural Museum of Natural Science
The prefectural museum of natural science. It covers science education and natural history.
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The prefectural museum of natural science. It covers science education and natural history.
A railway museum in Niitsu. It conveys the rolling stock technology of Niitsu, which grew up as a railway town.
A science museum in Nagaoka. It covers natural history and local science.
The Fossa Magna Museum in Itoigawa. It covers the great rift zone that divides the Japanese archipelago into east and west, and jade.
Nishimikawa on Sado. Visitors can try panning for gold dust.
The site of the Sado Magistrate's Office. A facility where gold ore was dressed and refined has been reconstructed.
The Okozu Diversion Channel in Tsubame. It releases the water of the Shinano River into the Sea of Japan and put a stop to flooding on the Echigo Plain.
The Sekiya Diversion Channel in Niigata. It releases floodwater of the Shinano River, which flows through the city, into the sea.
Okutadami Dam in Uonuma. A gravity dam with one of the largest storage capacities in Japan.
Sagurigawa Dam in Minamiuonuma. A rock-fill dam built by piling up rock.
Futai Dam and Okukiyotsu Power Station in Yuzawa. Pumped-storage generation with an underground power station inside the mountain.
The service hall of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station. It presents exhibits on energy.
A textile from Hachioji. It grew as a production area that weaves many different kinds of silk fabric.
Yuzen in which the design is sketched with a brush, outlined with paste and filled in with color. Rather than dividing the labor, one person often carries it through alone.
Grooves are carved into a body of kneaded paulownia sawdust, and the edges of cloth are tucked in to dress it. It was brought from Kyoto to Edo in the mid-Edo period.
A silk textile from Hachijojima. It is dyed yellow, russet and black with plants such as kobunagusa and woven in stripes or checks.
Tokyo kumihimo. Silk threads are braided on a braiding stand and made into kimono accessories.
Lacquerware of Edo. It is not thickly coated, and is finished as tools for practical use.
Hair ornaments made by pinching and folding small squares of cloth and assembling them into flowers and other shapes.
Buddhist altars from Tokyo. Woodworking and lacquer work are combined.
Hake brushes. Horse or deer hair is aligned and set into a board. They are used for mounting and dyeing.
Shell of the hawksbill turtle is bonded with heat and pressure and shaped. The raw material is now restricted by treaty.