Murakami City Niigata Prefecture

Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture is a castle town with a long history. To reach Murakami City Picturesque scenery on the Sea of Japan that you must see, Japanese food Discover the unspoiled scenery of Japan culture that you can ﬁnd in Murakami, festivals to feel the Japanese spirit, About 60 min. only 3 hours from Tokyo. relaxing hot spring inns with beautiful scenery, things that have been Narita Airport About 30 min. Tokyo About 2 hours Shin-Hakodate handed down carefully from the Edo period, streets drifting with the air of Haneda Airport Station by Joetsu Bullet train Niigata a castle town, traditional handicrafts created by artisans, food treasures About 2.5 hours Station Kansai Airport nurtured by rich nature and the ﬁnest quality tea... These experiences byTokaido Bullet train Shin-Aomori About 25 min. Niigata Airport await you. Take the Joetsu Bullet train from Tokyo and discover the Airport Limousine Bus unspoiled scenery of Japan in about 3 hours. Akita Morioka Visit Murakami and discover the real Japan!

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Toyama Kanazawa Takasaki Nagano You can enjoy the following in Murakami City: Tokyo Nagoya Narita Airport Kyoto Awashima Island and the sunset on the Haneda Airport Shin-Kobe Shizuoka 1 Sea of Japan Hiroshima Okayama Shin-Osaka Kansai Airport 2 Iyoboya: Murakami food culture Hakata

3 The Great Murakami Festival, a traditional Kumamoto castle town festival Negicco, a female music group from Senami Hot Spring soothes both your Niigata, introduces Murakami City 4 mind and body! Kagoshima Chuo in a video clip.

5 Tour of the Dolls in the Machiya Houses

6 Townscape of black fences

7 Murakami wood-carved reliefs

Enjoy rice wine and salmon cuisine 8 in Murakami! Murakami City 9 Tea country at the northern limit Niigata Prefecture Murakami｠City｠Tourism Association Ｎｅｇｉｃｃｏ Phone: 0254-53-2258 http://www.sake3.com/ To Asahi Awashima Island and the sunset on the Sea of Japan 絶景！粟島と日本海の夕日 4 Senami Hot Spring soothes both 5 Tour of the Dolls in the Machiya Houses To Tsuruoka City 1 Mahoroba Exit your mind and body! 城下町村上伝統の町屋めぐり 20 min. to Sasagawa-nagare To industrial park The long coastline along 心も体も！癒しの瀬波温泉

Misaki Restaurant Great Gedo Bridge the Sea of Japan is called In spring, the Tour of the Dolls in the Machiya Houses is a big (Japanese Cuisine) 鮭ふ化場和風レストラン美咲 Murakami Over a century ago in 1904, Senami Hot Spring started when event in castle town Murakami; machiya houses, which are Salmon hatchery● Miomote River the Sunset Line of the Sea Wakaayu Bridge 345 iguri net fishing Miomote River 三面川 Saberi Exit people searching for kerosene found a hot spring. The area is traditional houses, exhibit dolls handed down from generation to From mid-October of Japan. The coast has 三面川中州公園 Saberi Bridge （ to late November ） National Route 345 Miomote River Nakasu Park many scenic spots at proud of the abundant hot water. The Seaside Line that faces generation. The Folding Screen Festival is a big autumn event Senami Bridge Tanekawa River 種川 Bridge Great Saberi sunset; Sasagawa-nagare the Sea of Japan offers many accommodations and facilities and is held in September every year. Folding screens handed $ with hot springs and beautiful scenery. You will be uplifted by down from the old days are exhibited in machiya houses. Salmon Park in Murakami City is one of サーモンパーク鮭公園 them. Sasagawa-nagare is warm water and spellbound by beautiful scenery. Murakami Murakami bustles with machiya house visitors in both seasons. Salmon House a coastline of about 11 km offers a leisurely time that soothes both your mind and body. Another attraction is communicating with local residents. Enjoy サーモンハウス and a picturesque spot designated as a place of scenic beauty strolling in a castle town. Iyoboya Museum イヨボヤ会館 3 and a natural monument of Japan. The twilight from spring to 20 min. walk from EV autumn provides a vision of beauty as the sunset fades into dusk. Murakami Station Zenzou Restaurant 益田甚兵衛酒店 National The sun sinking into the Sea of Japan behind Awashima Island is 割烹善蔵 7 Masuda Jinbei Route 7 a picturesque sight that can only be seen here. The moment the National 345 Route 345 Sake Shop evening sun melts into the horizon as it dyes the sky, sea and Yururi Restaurant town orange is an unspoiled view of the heart of the people in Overpass 悠流里 Murakami who live with the Sea of Japan.

村上木彫堆朱会館 Murakami 割烹新多久 Wood-carved Suzuki Shintaku Restaurant 2 Iyoboya: Murakami food culture 村上に伝わる食文化『いよぼや』瀬波温泉 Relief Hall Lacquerware Senami Shop 鈴木漆器店 Onsen 割烹松浦家 Oshagiri Hall Shian Slope Yamabuki Kikkawa Shuho 早選堂おしゃぎり会館 Overpass Matsuuraya Restaurant Sosendo Confectionary (Seasonal Cuisine) Yamakichi Sake Shop 季節料理山蕗吉川酒舗割烹吉源 salting is one of the most common. At the salting dojo a lesson 6 Townscape of black fences 7 Murakami wood-carved reliefs Gallery in a Yoshigen Restaurant Kikkawa 味匠っ川 on how to make salted salmon is given in winter after the salmon Machiya House Fujii (Reliefs) Tanigawa-ya % Szechwan Masujin Sake Shop 益甚市民の思いで復活！黒塀の町並み伝統技術！村上木彫堆朱 Restaurant 町屋のギャラリーやまきち堆朱のふじい Matsumoto-en Restaurant have gone upstream. Rub in coarse salt carefully by hand and たにがわや堆朱の池田屋四川飯店 Tea Shop 松本園 Ikeda-ya expose the salted salmon to the cold wind. People from every (Reliefs) Samurai residences and machiya houses still remain today in Murakami wood-carved reliefs are a traditional handicraft that Yukemuri Slope corner of Japan crowd in here to learn this traditional method. Tokiwa-en Tea Shop Kokono-en Murakami City, the oldest castle town in Niigata Prefecture. are ﬁnished by applying many layers of lacquer to a carved 常盤園 Tea Shop Every family makes salted salmon at the end of the year, 匠居酒屋一心九重園 Yamagami Black Fence Street is a good example. The scenery of castle wood base. The skill that started in the Edo period continues Isshin Artisan(Pub) Notoshin Restaurant 料亭能登新 preparing to welcome the New Year. Salted salmon hanging in Hamanasu Street Dye House towns was beginning to disappear as time passed. Citizen from generation to generation; even today craftsmen are Onsen 山上染物店 Community Ishigame Restaurant front of all the houses is a Murakami winter scene. Daycare やすらぎ処石亀 Konkon坂 Slope source National historic site passion for traditional black fences in Murakami lead to working hard day after day to master and pass on this skill. This 村上市観光協会 Center こんこんレストラン平内

handed down from parents to children and children to Kamome Street 村 grandchildren. As time passes, a deep luster grows. 上 Kosugi Lacquerware Shop 駅小杉漆器店 Ajisaku 小料理紙風船 Restaurant Kami-fusen Restaurant Fujimi-en Tea Shop The Sea of 大衆割烹味作冨士美園 Japan 和風四川料理千経 7 National 日本海 Senkei Restaurant (Japanese-Szechwan Fusion) Route 7 Iyoboya in Murakami means salmon. The Miomote River that runs 3 through Murakami City is the river that had the first artificial Irifune (Local Cuisine) salmon hatchery in Japan. Salmon is a food treasure of Murakami & 郷土料理入船 because the harvest supported the finances of the Murakami Shojoji Park ●Observatory domain in the Edo period. At Iyoboya museum, the first salmon 展望台 museum in Japan, you can see the propagation technology that helps the salmon go upstream in the riverbed when they return to Senami Onsen Tunnel the place of their birth in late autumn to spawn their eggs. In the Murakami Senami corner of Iyoboya House is a salting dojo. Over 100 different 8 Enjoy rice wine and salmon cuisine in Murakami! 9 Tea country at the northern limit Onsen Exit ways to prepare salmon are handed down in Murakami; salmon 村上で堪能！日本酒と鮭料理北限の茶処！茶ムリエって？ ay w Food treasures are nurtured in Murakami because the town has Murakami City is tea country at the northern limit. Tea leaves s s National Awashima e 290 Route 290 rich nature surrounded by the sea and mountains. One such are generally cultivated in warm climates, but tea production is National 345 r 3 The Great Murakami Festival, Island Route 345 p example is rice wine; thanks to clear water and the careful popular in Murakami even though the area is cold. This is due x Iwafune-machi

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castle town atmosphere; experience the spirit of Japan. National Rental bicycle: ￥500/day Route 345 345 To Niigata City To Arakawa Tainai Exit To Niigata City To Asahi Awashima Island and the sunset on the Sea of Japan 絶景！粟島と日本海の夕日 4 Senami Hot Spring soothes both 5 Tour of the Dolls in the Machiya Houses To Tsuruoka City 1 Mahoroba Exit your mind and body! 城下町村上伝統の町屋めぐり 20 min. to Sasagawa-nagare To industrial park The long coastline along 心も体も！癒しの瀬波温泉

Murakami Castle Ruins Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway restoring the historical townscape; the historical townscape has formidable skill, producing beautiful color tones and elaborate Murakami｠City｠ Heinai コミュニティデイホーム Gen Restaurant Tourism● Association Restaurant 味処玄 Chidori Restaurant Castle Mountain (Mt. Gagyu) won prizes. Feel the elegance of a castle town. carving, is worth seeing. Murakami wood-carved reliefs are 割烹千渡里国指定史跡村上城跡お城山（臥牛山） Murakami handed down from parents to children and children to Kamome Street 村 grandchildren. As time passes, a deep luster grows. 上 Kosugi Lacquerware Shop 駅小杉漆器店 Ajisaku 小料理紙風船 Restaurant Kami-fusen Restaurant Fujimi-en Tea Shop The Sea of 大衆割烹味作冨士美園 Japan 和風四川料理千経 7 National 日本海 Senkei Restaurant (Japanese-Szechwan Fusion) Route 7 Iyoboya in Murakami means salmon. The Miomote River that runs 3 through Murakami City is the river that had the first artificial Irifune (Local Cuisine) salmon hatchery in Japan. Salmon is a food treasure of Murakami & 郷土料理入船 because the harvest supported the finances of the Murakami Shojoji Park ●Observatory domain in the Edo period. At Iyoboya museum, the first salmon 展望台 museum in Japan, you can see the propagation technology that helps the salmon go upstream in the riverbed when they return to Senami Onsen Tunnel the place of their birth in late autumn to spawn their eggs. In the Murakami Senami corner of Iyoboya House is a salting dojo. Over 100 different 8 Enjoy rice wine and salmon cuisine in Murakami! 9 Tea country at the northern limit Onsen Exit ways to prepare salmon are handed down in Murakami; salmon 村上で堪能！日本酒と鮭料理北限の茶処！茶ムリエって？ ay w Food treasures are nurtured in Murakami because the town has Murakami City is tea country at the northern limit. Tea leaves s s National Awashima e 290 Route 290 rich nature surrounded by the sea and mountains. One such are generally cultivated in warm climates, but tea production is National 345 r 3 The Great Murakami Festival, Island Route 345 p example is rice wine; thanks to clear water and the careful popular in Murakami even though the area is cold. This is due x Iwafune-machi

E a traditional castle town festival manual labor of brewers, quality rice made in Murakami turns to improving cultivation technology over many years for the

by fast ferry, o 柳庵 Local Transportation cuisine is essential to Murakami cuisine; Murakami has over and fragrance. The city has many chammeliers; these tea National 90 min. by h Ryu-an 7 Route 7

100 ways to prepare salmon and many salmon lovers. You can experts have studied the history of Murakami tea and how to normal ferry) o Restaurant

n ○ ○ 600 years. This lively castle town festival focuses on oshagiri, well with rice wine too. ' EV Long trip Short trip Kamihayashi o ●

which are floats decorated with lacquer, gold and silver. People h Awashima Iwafune-ko Exit i carry the oshagiri from the town where they live; some are over Taxi Steamship N Kamihayashi 200 years old. People parade as a group according to their town (Iwafune Business Office) Murakami Station ➡ Iyoboya Museum：￥860 粟島汽船岩船営業所 Roadside with musical accompaniment and shout encouragement as the Station Murakami Station ➡ Oshagiri Hall: ￥950 town changes into a festive mode for 2 days. The Great Murakami 道の駅神林 Murakami Station ➡ Senami Onsen：￥1,400 Festival is full of enthusiasm and energy as the city maintains its castle town atmosphere; experience the spirit of Japan. National Rental bicycle: ￥500/day Route 345 345 To Niigata City To Arakawa Tainai Exit To Niigata City Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture is a castle town with a long history. To reach Murakami City Picturesque scenery on the Sea of Japan that you must see, Japanese food Discover the unspoiled scenery of Japan culture that you can find in Murakami, festivals to feel the Japanese spirit, About 60 min. only 3 hours from Tokyo. relaxing hot spring inns with beautiful scenery, things that have been Narita Airport About 30 min. Tokyo About 2 hours Shin-Hakodate handed down carefully from the Edo period, streets drifting with the air of Haneda Airport Station by Joetsu Bullet train Niigata a castle town, traditional handicrafts created by artisans, food treasures About 2.5 hours Station Kansai Airport nurtured by rich nature and the finest quality tea... These experiences byTokaido Bullet train Shin-Aomori About 25 min. Niigata Airport await you. Take the Joetsu Bullet train from Tokyo and discover the Airport Limousine Bus unspoiled scenery of Japan in about 3 hours. Akita Morioka Visit Murakami and discover the real Japan!

Murakami Yamagata Sendai Fukushima Niigata Airport Niigata

5 Tour of the Dolls in the Machiya Houses

6 Townscape of black fences

7 Murakami wood-carved reliefs