Niigata Prefecture

The Niigata Prefecture (Japanese新泻 県, Niigata-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan. It is located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu. The city is the seat of the eponymous Niigata prefectural government.

Niigata is famous for its excellent rice and, accordingly, for his sake.

• 4.1 Railway

History

Until the Meiji Restoration were in today's prefecture, the provinces of Japan Echigo and Sado.

On 23 October 2004, a major earthquake shook Niigata: The Chuetsu earthquake reached the strength 6 Japanese intensity scale and hit especially the area around Ojiya. Without electricity and gas thousands spent weeks on the cold nights safe from aftershocks in private car in large parking lots. On 16 July 2007, the Niigata Chuetsu - coast earthquake took place.

Politics and Administration

• LDP: 33
• DPJ: 6
• SDP: 2
• JCP: 1
• Kōmeitō: 1
• Non-attached Members: 10

Governor of Niigata is in its third term of office of former officials Hirohiko Izumida, who was first elected in 2004 with the support of Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) and Kōmeitō and was last confirmed in the 2012 gubernatorial election in office. In Parliament, the LDP defended in the elections in April 2011, an absolute majority and received 29 of the 53 seats. The Democratic Party won seven seats, the Social Democratic Party two.

In the national parliament Niigata is represented by six directly elected deputies in Shūgiin - after the election of 2012, all six Liberal Democrats - and the Sangiin sends the prefecture two members each by-election, according to the 2010 and 2013 elections, two Liberal Democrats and Democrats.

With a " financial strength index " ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) of less than 0.5 ( in fiscal year 2007: 0.43, Fj 2009. 0.43 ) Niigata belongs to the lower middle of the financial equalization receiver and among the populous prefectures of the financially weakest.

Administrative divisions

Large cities (市shi ) and counties (郡, gun), and their towns (町, machi ) and villages (村, mura ) are for " regions " (地方, Chiho ) specified.

Joetsu - Chiho (上 越 地方)

Cities:

• Joetsu

• Itoigawa

• Myoko

Counties: No

Chuetsu - Chiho (中 越 地方)

Cities:

• Nagaoka
• Sanjō
• Kashiwazaki

• Ojiya
• Kamo
• Tokamachi

• Mitsuke
• Uonuma
• Minamiuonuma

Counties:

• Minamikambara Tagami

• Izumozaki

• Minamiuonuma Yuzawa

• Jinnan

• Kariwa Kariwa

Kaetsu - Chiho (下 越 地方)

Cities:

• Niigata ( seat of the prefectural government )

• Shibata
• Murakami

• Tsubame
• Goshen

• Agano
• Tainai

Counties:

• Kitakambara Seiró

• Yahiko

• Aga

• Iwafune Awashimaura
• Sekikawa

Sado - Chiho (佐渡 地方)

Cities:

• Sado

Counties: No

Biggest Towns

Transport and the economy

Railway

• The Joetsu Shinkansen connects Tokyo with Niigata.
• Echigo- line
• Yahiko- line
• Joetsu Line
• Shin'etsu Main Line
• Hakushin - line
• Uetsu Main Line
• Ban'etsu - West line

Farmhouse in the Northern Culture Museum

Fukushimagata in Niigata

Nagaoka Lyric Hall