Sado City

18 gold pieces a month named a village.

Sasagawa Juhachimai-mura

Photo by 番記者 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Oma Port Seawalls

The colorful stonework uses stoneproduced in local Aikawa.

Oma Port was built in the mid-Meiji era to carry ore, coal and other materials in and out of the Sado mine. The prefecture writes that seawalls made with the tataki method, which combines stonework with tataki, a kneaded mix of slaked lime and soil, remain. The Oma district is part of the area added to the national Historic Site of the Sado Gold and Silver Mines.

Port built in the mid-Meiji era
Tataki-method seawalls
Added area of a national Historic Site

02 ／ Daizen Shrine Noh Stage

The thatched Noh stage's roof frame isclosed off by a back panel of pine and sun.

The Noh stage stands in the grounds of Daizen Shrine, a hip-roofed thatched building designated a prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property. An ink inscription on the back of the old back panel shows that the present building was rebuilt in 1846. The city writes that a regular Noh performance is held at the festival on April 18 each year.

Rebuilt in 1846
5.5 m wide, 4.4 m deep
Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ Sado Kurumada-ue

Three rice-planting women back away,planting seedlings in a spiral.

This is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Kitaujima. The city writes that in this old-style custom, held around mid to late May each year to close the rice planting, they first plant seedlings at the center of the paddy, then plant them in a spiral around it.

Kitaujima
3 rice-planting women
1979: national designation

Living here

67 minutes from Niigata Port by jetfoil.

about 50,000 people

Sado has no railway; the gateway is Ryotsu Port. Sado Kisen jetfoils take as little as 67 minutes from Niigata Port, and car ferries take 150 minutes.

People living here: 51,492people
Area: 855.68km²
Households: 21,261households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,121yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 38 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —27 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Sado City in Japan38.044°N 138.390°E

to NiigataSado Kisen67min

Travel times follow 佐渡汽船公式『2026年時刻表(PDF)』（https://www.sadokisen.co.jp/timetable/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2026/01/timetable_2026.pdf。2026-10-14 に pdftotext で読んだ）。新潟〜両津航路：『ジェットフォイル「ぎんが」「つばさ」「すいせい」運航時間１時間０７分』『カーフェリー「おけさ丸」「ときわ丸」運航時間２時間３０分』。2026年10月13日〜12月31日のジェットフォイルは新潟発 7:55→両津着 9:02・9:40→10:47・11:30→12:37・13:35→14:42・15:30→16:37 が運転日の注記なし（毎日運転。週末だけの『Ⓙ』印は別）で、7:55→9:02＝67分。1月5日〜2月8日・3月28日〜5月1日・9月14日〜10月12日の表にも7:55発の無印のジェットフォイルがあり、67分は年間を通じて同じ (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 0 municipalities.

Territory of Sado City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

59.9km

Sado City isthis kind of town.

01Sasagawa settlement in Nishimikawa came to be called Sasagawa Juhachimai-mura, the city writes, because it paid 18 pieces of gold to the Uesugi clan in a month at the end of the Warring States period
02The Nishimikawa placer gold mine retains waterway ruins called Kinzan-e, 12 km in total, and Fukiage coast in Aikawa has a quarry site where stone for mine millstones was cut
03At Shukunegi, the Nenbutsu Bridge and a second stone bridge are said to have been built by a mason, using stone a shipowner brought from Onomichi on a return voyage along the western sea route

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Sado City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗