Shiozawa Tsumugi Memorial Museum is "a new foothold of textile culture" where traditional textiles and weaving techniques of Shiozawa area are gathered and exhibited. On the ground floor, crafts made with the fabric of the area are exhibited and sold. Visitors can experience their own craft making here. On the first floor, visitors can learn the process of how fabrics are made, and also learn the traditional arts and techniques of weaving first hand.

"Hokuetsu Seppu" written by Suzuki, took forty years to publish and became one of the best sellers of the Edo period. It is highly reviewed both nationally and internationally, as the first ever document introducing the way of life and cultures of the snow country of Japan. The museum exhibits the original document and Suzuki's writing equipments.

Imaizumi Museum was built with a donation by Ryuhei Imaizumi for promotion and activation of local culture and was opened in 1990. The main exhibits of the museum are tools and statues of spirits collected in Papua New Guinea. There are also mask collections from over 160 countries and dolls in folk costumes contributing to the highly international and exotic atmosphere of the museum.

The gallery was opened by a watercolour painter Yasuo Toyama in 2002. Toyama was born in Tokyo but was raised in Urasa, Niigata. He is well known for his works on seasonal wildflowers and alpine plants. The postcards and books of the collections are sold at the gallery shop which will make wonderful souvenirs.

The gallery holds permanent exhibition of over 500 masterpieces by a Niigata (Takada) born oil painter, Soichiro Tomioka (1922-94) from his White World series. He painted his works using the white oil paint he created "Tomioka White", which does not discolour, crack or exfoliate, and an extra long painting knife which he had specially made by a swordsmith. Throughout his career his subject was landscape in snow. The unique black and white works attracted fans especially in the U.S., where the unlikely characteristics of oil painting - smoothness, clarity and brightness found in his works were considered "Oriental White" or "Haiku in Painting" and was collectively called "Tomioka White". It was the artist's wish for the works created in the snow country to be returned, and so the gallery was opened in the early winter of 1990, at the foot of Hakkaisan (Mt. Hakkai).

Ikeda Memorial Foundation was established with a personal contribution by the founder and ex-president of Baseball Magazine Company Ltd., Tsuneo Ikeda (1911-2002). The collection includes not only sporting memorabilias, but also domestic and overseas art works as well as special exhibitions.

Visitors are pleasantly surprised and impressed by the collections of 144 works by Shiko Munakata and first grade domestic and foreign masterpieces. Works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Maurice Utrillo, Bernard Buffet, Utamaro Kitagawa, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Ando, Taikan Yokoyama, Tsuguji Fujita and Seiji Togo are exhibited quarterly.