Niigata Science Museum — Attraction in Niigata

This was a nice science museum to visit. Many scientific topics displayed from astronomy, to robotics, biology and more. There's also a nice little planetarium. It's about 200 yen extra for a 30 minute show (in Japanese, but easy to follow the night sky). Great hands on for kids too. There's also an outside component for larger artifacts and the roof is great for sights around on a clear day.

Museum is accessible by bus. I managed to walk it in 30 minutes. admission is around 600 yen, limited time...

Excellent science museum. It needs at least one whole day to be visited it properly. Very child-friendly, but that is not necessarily a bad thing if you are a grown-up, since scientific understanding can be quite heavy-going for anybody. I do not recommend paying the extra charge to access the planetarium unless your Japanese is good. Do not miss the views from the open-air rooftop -even though the building only has 4 floors, it is a great 360-degree...

This is hard to get to and return from via public transportation. There is a direct bus that is limited in hours to start from the Main Subway Station. This is a pretty good science museum with very interesting exhibits and quality installations. Someone did a great job in the hall with prehistoric life making really nice graphics of different time periods with drawing of the life of that time period. We only had limited time so did not explore the...