新潟 (Niigata)

新潟 (Niigata) is a city with a metropolitan population of 1.443 million¹ located at the mouths of the Shinano and Agano Rivers along the coast of the Sea of Japan. It is the capital of Niigata Prefecture in ⽇夲 (Nippon).² The tallest building is the 31 story Hotel Nikko Niigata.³

External references

Niigata skyline, Nippon (Japan)

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. 2005 census from the Statistics Bureau of Japan, cited in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014.
2. Informally also called Nihon in Japanese, and known as Japan in English.
3. Emporis.com, accessed 7/1/2014. The observatory claims to be the tallest on the Japanese coast of the Sea of Japan.