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  • Sado Nishimikawa Gold Park
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    4.0
    81 Reviews
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    Nigata Pref. Sadoshi Nishimikawa 835-1
    A hands-on museum built on the site of the former Nishimikawa Gold Mine in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture. Mentioned in the Konjaku monogatarishu, a collection of stories dated to the end of the Heian period, this ancient and historic mine even helped fund the war efforts of Uesugi Kenshin, a historic figure. The museum presents a variety of materials relating to gold and gold mining in its exhibition rooms and theater. There’s also a museum shop. The museum lets visitors try panning for gold and participants can take home the gold dust they find stored in a keychain or pendant.

    I remember gold panning as a kid in West Virginia. On a rainy day, we were traveling around Sado, and if you know this island, you know most of its charm is the outdoors - not exactly ideal to...

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  • Sado Island Taiko Centre
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
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    Nigata Pref. Sadoshi Ogikanetashinden 150-3
    This is a taiko facility where guests can experience a program of the international taiko performance group Kodo, which is based on Sado. Not only are groups welcome but individuals can also make advance reservations to try taiko. The facility has been constructed from Sado lumber, and one can enjoy views of Mano Bay and the Osado Mountain Range from the terrace. This is about one hour by car from Ryotsu Port.

    This is one of the special art forms on the planet and Kodo has taken it to a mind-blowing, heart warming level! Seize any opportunity to experience taiko with world renowned Kodo drummers...

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  • Kitsune no Yomeiri Yashiki
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    3.5
    19 Reviews
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    Nigata Pref. Higashikambaragunagamachi Tsugawa 3501-1
    This is a tourist facility in Tsugawa, Aga, Higashi Kanbara, Niigata Prefecture, famous for kitsunebi (floating orbs of light). Every year on the third of May exhibitions and local souvenirs on the theme of “Tsugawa Fox’s Marriage Procession” are displayed and sold. “Tsunagawa Fox’s Marriage Procession” is an event where the bride imitates the movements of a fox while walking along a night road, reproducing marriage processions of the Edo period. Inside the hall visitors can see a reproduction diorama, enjoy making a fox mask and a fox makeup experience.

    津川の、常浪川と阿賀野川の合流部にあります。 駐車場はありますが、停められる台数は少ないです。 昔、代官所があった所の跡地に建てられたそうです。 休日はツアーの団体さん訪れ、一過性ですが混雑する時間帯があります。 入場は無料です。 一階は売店と軽食スタンドがあります。 二階は大広間があり、狐の嫁入りに関する資料が幾つか展示されています。 三階には展望室があります。 軽食スタンドは、団体さんの弁当作...

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  • Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo
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    5.0
    8 Reviews
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    Nigata Pref. Sanjoushi Motomachi 11-53
    Located around three minutes' walk from Kita-Sanjo Station on the JR Yahiko Line, the Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo is a facility where visitors can enjoy a blacksmithing experience under the guidance of experienced professional blacksmiths. The Dojo offers a variety of different courses and activities in which participants can learn about the traditional techniques of Sanjo, a town with a long blacksmithing tradition, including forging, woodworking, and making traditional Butsudan (small Buddhist altars installed in family homes). There are three basic programs available: the kitchen knife sharpening experience, where participants who bring their own kitchen knives with them can learn how to sharpen the knife properly using grinding stones; Wakugi (Japanese-style nail) making experience, in which participants learn basic forging techniques, which involve beating hot iron with a hammer; and the paper-knife making experience, which enables participant to experience a wider range of blacksmithing techniques, including forging, grinding, and polishing. Participants must be in the fourth grade of elementary school or older.

    本来は金属加工を学ぶ訓練施設らしいです。当日も真剣に教室で座学を受ける生徒たちがたくさんいました。それとは別に私たちのような素人が見学体験できるコーナーがあります。包丁研ぎと5寸釘からペーパーナイフを作る体験は予約なしで体験することが出来ます。その他あらかじめ予約していくといろいろ出来るようです。私たちはペーパーナイフ体験をやって見ました。リタイヤしていると思われるおじいさんが一生懸命教えてくださ...

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  • Aikawa Traditional Skills Museum
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
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    Niigata Sado-shi Aikawa Kitazawa Machi 2
    A cultural facility adjoining the former Kitazawa Flotation Plant, said to have once been the largest mineral flotation processing plant in Asia. Here visitors can experience Mumyoi ware and Sakiori recycled cloth weaving, two traditional crafts native to the Aikawa Area. A designated National Important Intangible Cultural Property, Mumyoi ware is a type of pottery fired at high temperatures made with “mumyoi,” a mineral-rich clay produced from the Sado Gold Mine which contains iron oxide. Extremely hard, this pottery makes a clear, metallic sound when struck. Sakiori cloth is woven from strips of old cloth using a loom called Nemaribata. The facility’s staff can provide you with attentive, detailed guidance with either craft, making it easy to experience these traditional arts (advance reservation required).

    北沢浮遊選鉱場に面しています。入場無料です。 裂織りや焼き物を体験できる施設です。裂織りの素晴らしい作品や小物なども展示販売されています。体験学習にも利用されているようです。 選鉱場見学の後にふらっと立ち寄りましたが、素敵な場所でした。

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  • Najomon
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
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    Nigata Pref. Nakauonumaguntsunanmachi Shimofunato Otsu 835
    Najomon is an experiential learning center located in Tsunan Town, Nakauonuma County. It offers a wide range of experience activities, including opportunities to try your hand at making stone tools, making fire, harvesting grain or collecting medicinal plants, etc. Through these activities and through the center’s thematic exhibitions, visitors can learn about life in the Jomon era. Najomon also has a “Jomon Village” with authentic Jomon-style pit dwellings, as well as fields, an area of natural forest, and a range of other outdoor facilities.

    津南のヒマワリ広場のヒマワリの高さに比べると背の高いヒマワリだが、混雑がなく、良かった。ヒマワリの数もヒマワリ広場より多い。難点は、ヒマワリの高さが高い。子どもたちは、花が見えない。〔いずれも、子どもには高いけど〕空いてて寂しいくらい。 また、ひょうたん畑も隣接してる。

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  • Yajima Experience Community Center
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Niigata Sado-shi Ogi 365-1

    This spot takes 10 minutes by car from Ogi port. You need to apply for a tour in a hut in this spot. The fee is 500 yen per person. They dont speak English, so you need to find a way to ask in...

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  • Himezu Ohashi Bridge Squid Ichiyaboshi Making
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    Niigata Sado-shi Himezu
    A fishing activity center a 15-minute drive from the Sado Gold Mine located in the Himezu area, which boasts the greatest catches of squid on the island. Here visitors can experience surf fishing and preparing squid. Squid preparation activities visitors can try include squid dressing; making ichiya-boshi (squid dried overnight, which enhances and locks in flavor); and making shiokara fermented squid paste, which has a rich seafood flavor. Staff are on hand to provide you with attentive guidance, ensuring even those who have never handled a squid before will have fun. Rod rentals are provided for shore fishing in the island’s clear blue waters, meaning there’s no need to haul your own.
  • Sanpoku Nariwai no Sato
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    Niigata Murakami-shi Yamakumata 325
    This activity center is in Yamakumada hamlet, near the Yamagata prefecture border. You can try out nariwai, traditional local industries. Inside, they carry on the 1,200 year tradition of weaving shina-nuno, cloth made from the bark of Japanese linden trees, offering an up-close taste of the history and attraction of this ancient fabric. In addition to actual hand-woven shina-nuno, they also offer a chance to try craft industries like Akusasamaki, a method of wrapping rice in golden bamboo leaves treated with lye that is unique to this area (reservations required for all activities).
  • Yamagami Dyeworks Shop
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    Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Sakanamachi 2-17
    Yamagami Dyeworks Shop is a venerable establishment, dating back to the middle of the Edo period (1615–1867), located in the Sakana-machi of Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. Their main business is manufacturing and selling made-to-order dyed goods for businesses with trademarks or family crests on items such as noren curtains or happi coats. Its distinctive, subdued vegetables dyes, Hokugen-no-cha-zome, made with special locally produced Murakami tea are especially attractive with shibumi taste (austere elegance) . In the storefront, customers can choose from the hand towels, handkerchiefs, bath towels, and other goods displayed there, and, if they make reservations ahead of time, they can even try dyeing cloth with tea. They can also tour the machiya townhouse, a Tangible Cultural Property, where the business is located.
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  • Daigenta Kobo
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    Nigata Pref. Minamiuonumagunyuzawamachi Tsuchidaru 6399-1
    Daigenta Kobo is an experiential learning facility located along Prefectural Route 457 in Tsuchidaru in the town of Yuzawa, Uonuma County. Visitors can try their hands at making soba noodles with local Yuzawa buckwheat flour ground in-house, Anpo (a dish made with rice flour), Sasa Dango (mochi cakes with red bean paste, wrapped in a leaf), Chimaki (steamed dumpling wrapped in a leaf), miso, or konnyaku. Afterwards, visitors may eat what they have made inside the building. Daigenta Kobo can accommodate groups of up to 50 (depending on the food in question). The grounds of the building contain allotment gardens, and applications are accepted when a vacancy occurs.
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  • Biidoro Handmade Glass
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    Nigata Pref. Shibatashi Tsukioka 1109
    This handmade glass workshop has a shop located to the northwest of Tsukioka Hot Springs. With a reservation, visitors can experience making glass products such as their own original glasses and beads. The traditional blown glass experience program is open to anyone aged 11 and above. For children aged 3 years and above, there are also music box decoration and glass painting programs. These programs can be enjoyed by adults as well as children. The shop also sells specialty souvenirs and Japanese accessories from Tsukioka and Shibata for customers to peruse while they wait.
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  • Yatsunagawa campus
    Travel / Tourism
    Nigata Pref. Tokamachishi Murono 576
  • Daizu Kako Experience Facility
    Travel / Tourism
    Niigata Agano Murasugi 3946-156
  • Klein Garten Myoko (Kleingarten Myoko)
    Travel / Tourism
    Niigata Myoko-shi Sekiyama 6142-1
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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.

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