Niigata is a city located on Japan's western coast, and is known for its delicious seafood, sake, and snow festivals.
Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino in 1979, is a popular anime series that helped to popularize the mecha genre of anime, which features giant robots.
Sapporo is the largest city on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, and is known for its winter sports and beer.