Nagaoka City introduction
The best of Japan great river and Shinano-gawa flow to the city center comfortably, and Nagaoka-shi is a town of 280,000 people of population over which a municipal area spreads from Sumondake to the Sea of Japan.
A town was standing up by "spirit of one hundred straw bags of rice" (※) with Nagaoka's person while meeting the past and Ikuta's accident.
Spirit of "one hundred straw bags of rice"
One hundred straw bags of rice of a greeting was presented to the Nagaoka feudal clan which is defeated by the Boshin War and wins poorness from Sanganesan feudal clan of shihan. A great secretary at time and Torasaburo Kobayashi sold the rice by the faith which is "because it can't be eaten, education" and assigned to funds of national Sinology school opening.
It's a guideline of Nagaoka's city development and an idea of education of human resources.
Expressways
- Tokyo > NagaokaIC
- : 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Koriyama > NagaokaIC
- : 2 hours and 30 minutes
- Nagoya > NagaokaIC
- : 5 hours and 10 minutes
- Kanazawa > NagaokaIC
- : 3 hours
- Osaka > NagaokaIC
- : 6 hours and 40 minutes
Japan Railway
- Tokyo > Nagaoka Station
- : 1 hours and 30 minutes
- Koriyama > Nagaoka Station
- : 4 hours and 10 minutes
- Sakata > Nagaoka Station
- : 3 hours
- Nagano > Nagaoka Station
- : 2 hours and 10 minutes
- Kanazawa > Nagaoka Station
- : 2 hours and 20 minutes
- Osaka > Nagaoka Station
- : 5 hours and 40 minutes
Express Bus
- Tokyo > Nagaoka Kita(North)
- : 4 hours
- Osaka > Nagaoka Station
- : 9 hours
Seaways
- Teradomari(Nagaoka) > Akadomari(Sado)
- : 65minutes(High Speed Boat)