Nishikigoi Village (Nishikigoi no sato)
Outdoor | Avg price: ¥515 | English Available: None (Unknown)
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Well worth the visit
I thought I had already reviewed this place but I must have forgotten to -- but it's a place that provides a lot of fun for the whole family. You can feed the koi fish directly, and there are both indoor and outdoor koi ponds/pools. They also have some really nice landscaped gardens. Reasonable admission too at just over 500 yen for adults and free for elementary aged kids.
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on Mar 6
Carp Paradise!
If you know anyone who even has a passing interest in carp, then this is an amazing little side adventure to enjoy. The outer garden and pond is in use for seasons outside winter and makes for a perfect backdrop to enjoy watching and feeding the many different varieties of carp. The tour is engaging but entirely in Japanese, so if you don't speak it semi-fluently or have a person or smartphone with a speedy audio translate feature, it may be hard to follow, but there is English text attached to all the displays at the village, so even without the tour you can learn a great deal. The main carp area in the back of the main hall is literally swimming with carp, and the curator encourages you to feed them and gently touch the adult carp. Seeing the many different colors and the stories attached to them was an excellent diversion. Is this an attraction you could build a whole day on? No, but it's an excellent part of a day spent in the Ojiya/Nagaoka area.
genkidesu
on Mar 9