Tips for living in Nagaoka Japan.?

Question

I will be living in Nagaoka Japan next october. I have read about the city but by the point of view of a "gaikokujin" how is the place if anyone has been there?. Arigatou Gosaimasu!.
I have been several times in Japan but not in there.

Answer 1

I used to live there. It snows a lot there, you need rubber boots in the winter because they use sprinklers for snow removal. It's not a bad little town if you don't mind the snow, bring your skis or snowboard. It starts to snow in December and it pretty much keeps snowing continuously until sometime in March.

There was a bar there run by a Canadian that was the town's de facto gaijin bar. If it's still in business I'm sure all the expats know where it is. In a lot of ways Nagaoka is the company town of Nippon Seiki KK. NS makes automotive instruments, but a lot of other businesses in town are connected to the same family that founded NS.

Answer 2

Nagaoka (長岡市) is a city located in the central part of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It is the second largest city in the prefecture, behind the capital city of Niigata. Nagaoka is located in the center of Niigata prefecture and the surrounding Chuetsu region. It is 80 minutes from Tokyo by way of the Joetsu Shinkansen or 3 hours on the Kan-Etsu Expressway. Nagaoka was an inland city until January 1, 2006 when the city merged with four municipalities-two were touching the Sea of Japan. The current Nagaoka now touches the Sea of Japan on the north and after the merger, it is still considered a strategic traffic point in the region. The Shinano River flows through it from south to north and industrial development occurs on both banks of the river.

Privately-owned cars are the primary means of civic transportation. The city has a wide network of bus routes, with Nagaoka Station as the hub. Most of the roadways are improved and the pavement is top class in the nation. Nagaoka's location in the center of the prefecture makes it an important transportation junction, with rail lines and roadways from the east splitting in Nagaoka to go to Niigata and Joetsu.