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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art
For a Nihonga painter who reduced everything to line; his house and studio by Isoya Yoshida stand restored beside it.
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Gangi Arcades of Takada
Householders gave up their own frontage to roof a continuous walkway - 16 kilometres of it, the longest in Japan.
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Sado Gold Mine
A mountain split in two by hand; the mine that backed Edo's gold currency, now a World Heritage industrial landscape.
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Noh Stages of Sado
Over thirty Noh stages survive on this island - a third of all those left in Japan, one to a village.
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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.
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Shibata Castle
Its turret roof is T-shaped and carries three shachi finials - the only such example in Japan.
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Teradomari
A port of call for the Kitamae trading ships, keeping its highway townhouses and its beachfront market.