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NIIGATA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY

A visit to the Museum allows the visitor to walk through a Jomon village, to experience the
rigours of life in the Snow Country (five meters of snow can accumulate in the mountainous
regions of the prefecture), to appreciate the infrastructure needed to support the multi-billion
pound rice industry that produced the most delicious sake and rice in Japan, and to wonder at the
Flame pots and the processions that took gold and silver from Sado the capital at Edo.

Figure 1. Life in the Jomon period (spring reason)

The museums unique feature is the way it tells the story of the history and culture of Niigata
prefecture through life-size models based on historical, anthropological and archaeological
research.

Figure 2. Winter hunting

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The most impressive on could be unique snowy Niigata Prefectural exhibitions. Walking
along an artificial snowy tunnel will provide a real-life experience of citizens in typical city of
Niigata, who had to be coped with several meters of snow per year for very long time ago. In the
first floor, it not only shows the humans life in heavy snow but it also gives visitors a strong
emotion related to a huge mass of snow, even it can be estimated much more higher than humans
average height. There was so much snow that it could be able to build a snowy walls beneath the
surface.

Figure 3. A huge number of snows falling in winter time

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