Every Place in the Catalogue
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Hotaruika Museum
Little knownFirefly squid spend their lives in deep water and come into Toyama Bay in spring to spawn. They are a few centimetres lo…
Minamoto Masuzushi Museum
Little knownMasuzushi is Toyama's contribution to the national bento canon: vinegared rice pressed into a round wooden tub under a l…
Sankyoson Viewpoint
Little knownThe Tonami plain is farmed in a pattern found in very few places: instead of villages, each farmhouse stands alone in th…
Uchikawa
Little knownUchikawa is a canal running through the middle of the old port town of Shinminato, and the fishing fleet ties up along b…
Hisui Coast
Little knownJade forms in the Kotaki river valley over the prefectural border in Niigata, washes down to the sea, and the current ca…
Asahi Funakawa Riverbank
Little knownFor about ten days in early April, a stretch of riverbank in the small town of Asahi produces one of the most improbable…
Etchu-Yatsuo
Little knownYatsuo is a small town of stone-paved slopes and fine-latticed houses built on a river terrace south of Toyama, and for…
Tsugawa Fox Wedding Procession
Little knownMount Kirin above the town of Tsugawa is where foxfire was seen. Sightings of the drifting lights were recorded here mor…
Izumozaki Townscape
Little knownIzumozaki has the longest continuous run of gable-entrance houses in Japan, about four kilometres of them along the old…
Naena Falls
Little knownNaena Falls drops 55 metres off a wall of columnar basalt on the Sekikawa river, right on the border between Niigata and…
Kasugayama Castle Ruins
Little knownKasugayama was Uesugi Kenshin's castle, and it is a mountain rather than a building. Nothing above ground survives excep…
Nuttari Terrace
Little knownNuttari Terrace is a single short street of tiny shops in a former market row east of central Niigata. The row was built…
Sasagawa Nagare
Little knownSasagawa Nagare is an eleven-kilometre stretch of the northern Niigata coast where the Japan Sea has cut the rock into a…
Bishamondo Honpo
Little knownTochio abura-age is not the thin fried tofu pouch sold everywhere in Japan. It is a slab roughly 20 centimetres long and…
Matsudai Nohbutai
Little knownMatsudai Nohbutai is the working centre of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, the permanent art landscape that grew out of a…
Tonkatsu Taro
Little knownNiigata's katsudon has no egg in it. Thin pork cutlets are fried, dipped straight into a soy-based tare while still hot,…
Yagigahana
Little knownYagigahana is a wall of rhyolite more than 200 metres high standing directly over the Ikarashi river in the Shitada vall…
Fossa Magna Museum
Little knownThe Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line runs through this city — the western edge of the Fossa Magna, the enormous rift that…
Nishikigoi no Sato
Little knownOrnamental koi began here. Around two hundred years ago farmers in the Yamakoshi hills above Ojiya kept common carp in t…
Gyokusendo
Little knownGyokusendo has been raising copper vessels by hammer since 1816. The technique, tsuiki-doki, starts from a single flat d…
Kojimaya Sohonten
Little knownHegisoba is Tokamachi's soba, and what separates it from every other soba in Japan is the binder. Instead of wheat flour…
Sennen-zake Kikkawa
Little knownMurakami has been a salmon town since the Heian period, and in the eighteenth century a retainer named Aoto Buheiji work…
Hyoko
Little knownHyoko is a small irrigation pond dug in the Edo period that became, almost by accident, the place where wild swans in Ja…
Iwanohara Vineyard
Little knownKawakami Zenbei planted grapes here in 1890 and spent the rest of his life crossbreeding European vines with hardier sto…
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