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Niigata
Niigata is a port city on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, at the mouth of the Shinano River, and the capital of Niigata Prefecture. It was one of the five ports opened to foreign trade under the treaties of 1858, actually opening in 1869. It is the largest city on Japan's Sea of Japan coast.
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