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Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Unusual among prefectural museums for its Western modern holdings, shared with its sister museum in Niigata city.
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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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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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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.
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Matsudai Nohbutai
A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.
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Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel
An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.
NiigataArt & CraftsMinamiuonuma
Echigo Jofu Ramie Cloth
Ramie split by fingernail, spun by hand, woven, then bleached on the snow; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Shiozawa Tsumugi
The ramie technique applied to silk, its kasuri dots so small the pattern is named after mosquitoes.
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Ojiya Chijimi
Hard-twisted weft crinkled by hot water into a summer cloth that never clings; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Nishikigoi Carp
Two centuries of selecting colour and pattern in terrace-fed ponds - a design carried out through living animals.
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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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Gyokusendo
Two centuries of raising copper vessels - spout and body from a single sheet, without a join.
NiigataArt & CraftsSanjo
Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo
A blade town that began by forging nails for Edo; its forge is open, the fire worked in front of visitors.
Kamo
Kamo Paulownia Chests
A major share of Japan's paulownia chests; the wood swells with humidity, sealing the drawers by itself.
Murakami
Murakami Carved Lacquer
Carved wood layered with a dozen coats of lacquer and matted down; use wears the surface until the red shows through.
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Townhouses of Murakami
A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.