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Echigo Hillside National Government Park

4.5

83 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nagaokashi Miyamotohigashikatamachi 1950-1

Occupying an extensive site, Echigo Hillside National Government Park has plenty of fun things to do and experience. This is a nature park where visitors can enjoy the beautiful flowers and scenery (which changes with the seasons), experience life in a Satoyama (traditional community-managed forest) habitat, and learn about the different plants and animals that have evolved in concert with human agricultural activity. Visitors can eat in the Rest House, or enjoy an outdoor barbecue. Echigo Hillside National Government Park is located around 10-minute drive from the Nagaoka Interchange of the Hokuriku Expressway.

Tulips in spring, roses in early summer, cosmos flowers in autumn- this park is beautiful all year round and worth visiting multiple times. Before you come, make sure to check the website and find...
Yahiko Park

4.0

76 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nishikambaragunyahikomura Yahiko 667-1

This park is located just outside the JR Yahiko Station, and covers an area of 160,000 square meters. There is an abundance of nature in the park for visitors to enjoy, with a waterfall and mountain streams, and seasonal flowers such as azaleas and irises. The highlight of the park is the Kangetsukyo bridge in the Maple Valley, which was modeled on the old wooden bridge. In the fall, the entire area is famous for how it turns red with a sea of autumn leaves, which harmonize perfectly with the red of the bridge. And in the evening, the park is lit up, making it a popular place for tourists to visit. There are also tennis courts and playground equipment in the park, which can be enjoyed by parents and children.

we spent half a day at the park on 12-Nov. The fall colors were amazing! its right next to the Yahiko shrine, so, you can hit both sites at one stop. There were a few tour groups at 3pm. I suggest...
Takada Castle Site Park

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Niigata Joetsu-shi Motoshirocho 44-1

Takada Park was built on the site of what was formerly Takada Castle, a castle built as a residence for Tokugawa Tadateru, the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu; the entire Park has been designated as an official Historic Site by Niigata Prefectural Government. A variety of cultural and sporting facilities are located within Takada Park, including the reconstructed Sanju-yagura (three-tiered tower) of the old Takada Castle, the Castle Museum, the Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art, Takada Library, and the Mimei Ogawa Literature Museum (located inside the Library), making the Park a favorite place for local residents to spend their leisure time. With around 4,000 cherry trees, Takada Park is also a popular spot for viewing the cherry blossom in spring. Takada Park is located around eight- minute drive from Takada Station on the Myoko Haneuma Line.
Okozu Bunsui Sakura Park

4.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Tsubameshi Gosengoku 4026-3

This park is on the banks of the Nishikawa River in Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture. A huge stone weir that controls the flow of the river is visible from the park. Some of that water is diverted into the park, and there are water facilities that children can play in. There is also playground equipment like swings and slides, and there are nice spots for a rest like an arbor and benches. There are over 600 flowering cherry and other trees that are lit up at night during peak season. The Bunsui Kimono Parade is held during the Tsubame Cherry Blossom Festival on the third Sunday in April.

公園設施略為簡單，而重點是旁的櫻花道。雖然道路較寬，沒有櫻花隧道的效果，但茂密的櫻花配合樹下的油菜花，足以在慢駛的汽車內享受長達三分鐘的美景。
Salmon Park

3.5

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Murakami-shi Shiomachi 13-34

A park adjoining the Tanegawa River, a tributary of the Miomote River. Trees and flowers, an arbor, and a playground are arrayed around the park’s central grass lawn. Inside the park, visitors can see rainbow trout swimming in an artificial river. Visitors can also enjoy seasonal scenery, including cherry blossoms in spring and fireflies in summer. A statue in the park depicts Aoto Buheiji, a retainer of Murakami Domain in the Edo period who invented the Tanegawa system, the first system in the world to successfully naturally breed salmon. The adjoining Iyoboya Kaikan museum provides information on Murakami salmon, which records state were even officially gifted to the nobility in distant Kyoto long ago during the Heian period.

村上駅からバスを利用して中心地に行き、そこから歩いてイヨボヤ会館の隣にある公園です。近くには三面川が流れています。公園内には鮭のイラストされた場所などもあり、公園に流れる水は綺麗でした○
Kashiwazaki Yume no Mori Park

3.5

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Kashiwazakishi Karuigawa 4544-1

This 30-hectare forest park is a 15-minute drive from Kashiwazaki Interchange. The park's trees, waterfront, and leaves have been carefully groomed, making it a place to relax and commune with the diverse forest flora and fauna, which include Japanese rice fish, loach, Japanese Luehdorfia, and dogtooth violets. Other attractions include an Eco House with exhibits, books, a kid's corner, and more, as well as a forest workshop area and a cafe. The park's cafe I'm Home offers a menu full of seasonal cuisine made with fresh ingredients sourced from local producers. The park also offers a number of hands-on activity programs for individuals, families, and groups.

広くて自然がいっぱいの公園です。一年を通して花も楽しめますし、家族づれの方には特におすすめです。キャンプもできます。
Hakusan Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Ichibamboridorichou Chisaki

This is a city park located in the Niigata City urban center near the Niigata City Office, Furumachi old town, and a variety of cultural facilities. Hakusan Park was built in 1873 as one of Japan’s first public parks based on the Dajokan Fukoku (Proclamation by the Grand Council of State). Located directly next to the Niigata Hakusan-jinja Shrine, it is used as a place of rest and relaxation by worshippers. Visitors can walk down the “Yasuragitei” embankment along the Shinanogawa River and pass “Ryutopia,” the Niigata City Performing Arts Center that features a rooftop park.
Yukyuzan Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nagaokashi Oyamachou 80-5

This urban park is located on National Route 353, east of the JR Nagaoka Station. It is also known as Oyama, and inside the park is a mini zoo and a play area for children. It is also a famous flower-viewing spot with approximately 2,500 cherry trees, with different types of tree, such as Yoshino cherry trees, weeping cherry trees and double-flowered cherry trees. Every spring, the Yukyuzan cherry blossom festival is held here, and in the evening, the trees are lit up and the park fills with crowds of tourists. In addition to the cherry blossoms, there are also flowers and trees such as irises and Japanese maple trees planted here, making the park a popular place for locals to relax throughout all four seasons.
Ogishiroyama Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Sadoshi Ogimachi

This park is on a former castle hill. The grounds within its old ramparts and foundation have a variety of trees and flowers and locals often come here to relax. About 3,000 camellia bloom from winter to spring, when 500 cherry trees, satsuki azaleas, and other trees and shrubs flower. In summer the park hosts the Earth Celebration, Sado's biggest event, with three days of concerts, markets, workshops, experience programs, and more.
Niigata Prefectural Toyanogata Park (Meike and Shumoku)

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Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Meikeminami 3-1-3 / Kangi 451

To reach Niigata Prefectural Toyonaga Park, visitors should board the bus bound for Meike-Atago from Niigata Station, get off at the Yakyuujo-Kagakukan Mae bus stop about 15 minutes later, and walk about eight minutes. The park is a prefectural park that extends along the shores of Toyanogata Lagoon and consists of two areas. The Meike area contains a lookout where visitors can view the entire lagoon at once and a promenade lined with cherry trees where visitors can stroll and look at the trees and other plants. The Shumokuchiku area contains a main open plaza, a Japanese garden that changes with the four seasons, and a rest house and other facilities. The park also sponsors a number of observation events, such as guided walks and bird watching sessions, and seasonal experiential events in which visitors can try their hands at various crafts.
Akiha Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Akiha-ku Akiha 3-7-9

Akiha Park is a comprehensive park located a short drive from Niitsu Station in the city of Niigata, Niigata Prefecture. It is a famous site for viewing cherry blossoms that is illuminated during the spring blossom season, and visitors can also view a Japanese garden, a peony garden, and other sights. The children's section contains a jungle gym, a suspension bridge and other athletic equipment, along with an animals' area where children can play with and encounter animals such as deer, rabbits, and peafowl. The entire park is grass-covered, and visitors can spend an entire day enjoying the Gohokaku Observatory, the campground, and the outdoor music auditorium (admission charge).
Shinano River Yasuragi Riverside Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Kawabatachou 6-Kawagishi-cho 3, Sekiya Okawamae 1 et al.

This green space is located along Shinano River in Chuo Ward, Niigata City. It has maintained flower beds, a cycling road and pavilions on the Shinano River embankment. It is famous as a cherry blossom viewing spot in the spring, and visitors can enjoy views of the cherry blossoms with the nationally designated Important Cultural Property, Bandai Bridge, in the background.
Koide Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Uonuma-shi Aoshima 1609

A hill park which turns into a bustling ski slope on winter. The park is also known for its abundance of colorful flours, including springtime cherry blossoms as well as mountain azaleas, scarlet sage, marigolds, and cosmos. A renowned photo destination for taking pictures of the Three Mountains of Echigo, many amateur photography lovers come here year-round. Particularly in spring during the cherry blossom season, large numbers of people gather at the hilltop rest house to take pictures backed by the majestic natural beauty of Uonuma. Park facilities include an all-season ski jump and walking paths, and many people come here to go for a stroll, enjoy a picnic, go birdwatching, and take in a little forest therapy.
Tsugamijima Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Sado-shi Ryotsu Ogawa

This park encompasses an island which belongs to the district of Ogawa, a community which thrived as a port for small cargo vessels from the Edo period onward. Tsugamijima Shrine, a Shinto shrine which enshrines guardian gods of the sea, stands on the island beyond the red-lacquered Tsugami Bridge. The main shrine building, situated past the torii gate, was widely worshipped and thought to provide protection to the local cargo ships sailing the sea, and to grant business prosperity. It is said that the shrine was once located behind the settlement but was moved to the island in the Genroku period, where it still enshrines the three ocean gods known as the Sumiyoshi Sanjin to this day. The Zenpoji Temple stands behind the shrine. During the area’s age of light cargo sailing vessels, the temple served as a private lighthouse, and today it continues to watch over the community and the people who come here to shore fish.
Bashoen Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Santo-gun Izumozaki Machi Sumiyoshicho 556- Ko

In this garden stands a stone monument inscribed with a copy of the entirety of the text of famed poet Matsuo Basho’s “Ginga no Jo” (“Preface to the Milky Way”) written in his own hand. A line from this poem, composed in 1689 while making the journey he would ultimately describe in his “Narrow Road to the Interior,” is particularly famous: “turbulent ocean / extending out to Sado / the Milky Way.” The monument as well as a statue of Basho stands on the grounds of a residence which once belonged to the Torii, a family whose members served as town elders in Izumozaki. Various sights connected to Basho, including the birth home of Ryokan, a priest and poet Basho greatly respected, are located in the area, and even today many amateur haiku lovers make their way here. There is a mailbox in the garden which visitors can use to submit haiku poems; once a year, the best are selected for compilation into a collection.
Otate Park (Otate Site)

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Joetsu-shi Gochi 1-23-11

The Otate was a compound the mighty lord Uesugi Kenshin built for Kanto shogun deputy Uesugi Norimasa when the latter fled to Echigo after he was defeated by Hojo Ujiyasu, then-lord of Odawara Castle. It is believed that it was also used as a government office after Kenshin later inherited the post of Kanto shogun deputy. The compound is thought to have been vast, equivalent in area to 1. 6 Tokyo Domes, but today only its heart remains as a park. The compound was also the site of the Siege of Otate, a great uprising which tore Echigo Province in two as two men fought to succeed as the head of the Uesugi clan after Kenshin’s sudden demise.
Niigata Prefectural Shiunji Memorial Park

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Niigata Shibata-shi Fujitsukahama 299

A health and exercise park which boasts spacious, 80 hectare grounds. Divided into five zones, the park was built to establish a comfortable space for prefectural residents, promote their health maintenance, and stimulate the community. The Nature Observation and Research Zone has a lovely, undulating bird watching trail, perfect for taking in a little forest therapy. Niigata Aicho Center Shiunji Saezuri no Sato is located inside the park; the facility holds bird watching sessions and engages in a variety of research regarding wild birds. The Health and Exercise Zone has a multipurpose field which can be used for soccer, rugby, and other recreational activities, and is also the location of Shiun no Sato, an activity and spa center. Many people come here to relax and soak in a hot spring bath after an activity-filled day.
Todo no Mori Water Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Niigata Nagaoka-shi Nishinakanomata 3996

A park encompassing a famous spring located 50 minutes from the Nagaoka Interchange on the Kan-Etsu Expressway. The park’s spacious, 12-hectare grounds are outfitted with a restaurant, hall, teahouse, and campground. The Todo no Mori spring, which wells up on the park’s grounds, once supported village life, being used for drinking water and irrigation. The spring was selected for inclusion in the Ministry of the Environment’s Top 100 Famous Water list in 1985, and since that time its clear, quality waters have won it much popularity, with an unending stream of visitors making their way here from across the prefecture and beyond. The soft water spring continues to flow regardless of the season, and visitors can take home a bottle filled from the spring year round.
Mt. Akasaki Forest Park

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Niigata Higashikanbara-gun Aga Machi Kanose

"This park is the overall name for the region centered on the Kanose Dam. Chosen as one of the 2000 valuable Japanese civil engineering structures remaining from early modern times, the Kanose Dam is also called the Tsunogami Dam, after the former name of the section of the village where it is located. It is a spot where visitors can enjoy magnificent scenic panoramas. From an observation deck, Tennyo no Hanaikada (""The Heavenly Nymph's Flower Raft"") that juts out into the sky, they can see Aganogawa River, which looks a giant, wriggling dragon and the imposing hydroelectric dam at one glance. Fifteen minutes from Tennyo no Hanaikada is a mountaintop observation point, Tenku no Kaze (""Sky Wind""). If atmospheric conditions are right, one can see the peaks of the Iide Mountain Range, Nihondaira, Mt. Mikagura, MinamiAizu, and NasuMountain Range."
Tagami Town Bairin Park

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Niigata Minamikanbara-gun Tagamimachi Tagami Ko 184

Tagami town, located about 30 minutes' drive from Sanjo-Tsubame Interchange to the southeast of Niigata city, is famous for ume plums. This park about five minutes' drive from Hanyuda Station is planted with about 2,000 white and red plum, weeping plum trees and so on. The first Sunday every April they hold the Tagami Ume Matsuri, where you can buy treats and plum liqueur made with Tagami'sKoshi no Ume plums. The area has a walking course, about three kilometers around, and many visitors taking about two hours to stroll through the ume trees.

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Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.