Yuzawa (Niigata) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
town in Minamiuonuma district, Niigata prefecture, Japan
About Yuzawa (Niigata)
The canonical backwoods hot spring and skiing resort, Nobel prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's classic novelSnow Country(雪国Yukiguni, see box) takes place in Yuzawa. Or so the Yuzawans claim; to be quite strict, the novel never mentions the name of its setting, but Kawabata wrote the novel while staying in Yuzawa so perhaps it's not too big a leap to make. The local tourist association has amultilingual guide site. 国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。Kokkyō no nagai tonneru wo nukeru to yukiguni de atta.The sentence loses more than a little in the translation, but "the train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country" is among the best-known opening lines in Japan. Written in Yuzawa, which has one of the highest snowfall rates in the world—up to 5 meters per year—and was all but cut off from the re
Top Attractions in Yuzawa (Niigata)
Explore the best things to see and do in Yuzawa (Niigata):
- ★Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort
- ★Ipponsugi
- ★Iwa-ppara Ski Resort
- ★Kagura Ski Resort
- ★Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resorts
- ★Naeba Ski Resort
- ★NASPA Ski Garden
- ★Yuzawa Kogen
Yuzawa (Niigata) Travel Guide Sections
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