Meeting rooms, a hall, a cooking studio and a tatami room: a community centre local people can hire.
Closed nowToday Closed
Days open for requests
- 9Mon
- 10Tue
- 11Wed
- 12Thu
- 13Fri
- 14Sat
- 15Sun
Ask anything before you book.
Cancellation policy
Full refund up to 7 days before; half refund from 6 days before to the day before; no refund on the day. Full refund if we close because of heavy snow or a weather warning.
Your visit gives back
When you pay, ask staff for the HAKOBUNE QR code and scan it. This place pays us a fee for your visit, and part of it goes to social causes. You pay nothing extra.
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What you can do here
- Hire a meeting room for a neighbourhood association or study group
- Hold a recital or a talk in the hall
- Run a cooking class in the cooking studio
- Take a break in the lounge, no booking needed
From the staff
If you have any questions about room sizes, equipment or anything else, just ask at the front desk. If it's your first time running a gathering, we'll help you plan everything from how to lay out the tables.
Why this place supports social causes
There are fewer and fewer places in town where people can casually get together. For parenting groups and gatherings of older people, we charge half the room fee on weekday daytimes, and the lounge is open to anyone without booking.
From the place
Because we want the places where local people gather to be easy to find and easy to hire for anyone who wants to use them.
What they care about
A lounge you can use without booking
Anyone can use the ground-floor lounge without booking, whether to study or to meet up.
Half price for parenting groups and older people's gatherings
Parenting groups and gatherings of older people held on weekday daytimes pay half the room fee.
Help with your first gathering
How to lay out the tables, how to use the microphones: our front-desk staff will go through it with you before you start.
HAKOBUNE Spot offers
For first-time visitors
Offer
First-time groups: free projector
Groups hiring a room for the first time can borrow the projector free of charge.
First-time groups, once
From your second visit
Offer
From your second booking, free use of the tea utensils in the Japanese-style room
When you hire the Japanese-style room, you can use the tea hearth and utensils free of charge.
Second booking onwards
More details
Using the facility
Rooms & capacity
Meeting Room A (18 people, whiteboard, projector) Meeting Rooms B and C (12 people each; 30 with the partition removed) Tiered hall (120 seats, stage, sound system, piano) Multi-purpose room (40 people, mirrors, wooden floor; for dance or exercise) Cooking studio (6 cooking stations, 36 people, fridge, oven) Japanese-style room (12 tatami, sunken tea hearth, tea utensils)
Usage fees
Meeting Room A: morning ¥1,200 / afternoon ¥1,600 / evening ¥1,600 Meeting Rooms B and C: each morning ¥800 / afternoon ¥1,000 / evening ¥1,000 Tiered hall: morning ¥4,800 / afternoon ¥6,400 / evening ¥6,400 Multi-purpose room: morning ¥1,600 / afternoon ¥2,000 / evening ¥2,000 Cooking studio: morning ¥2,400 / afternoon ¥3,200 / evening ¥3,200 Japanese-style room: morning ¥1,000 / afternoon ¥1,200 / evening ¥1,200 Events that charge admission or sell goods pay double the rate
Time slots
Morning 9:00–12:00 / Afternoon 13:00–17:00 / Evening 18:00–21:30
Eligibility & registration
Anyone can hire a room. Groups using us for the first time, please register a representative's name and contact details (you can do this when you apply on this page). Groups based in Niigata City can book from 3 months ahead. Groups from outside the city can book from 2 months ahead.
Lottery & applications
For the tiered hall on weekends and public holidays, applications are accepted from the 1st to the 10th of the month four months before the month of use. If requests overlap, we hold a draw on the 15th. Results are shown on the application screen and sent by email.
Cancellation & refunds
If you cancel up to 7 days before the day of use, we refund the full amount. From 6 days before to the day before, we refund half; on the day itself we cannot give a refund. If we close the centre because of heavy snow or a weather warning, we refund the full amount.
Commercial use
Yes
Accessibility
Accessibility support
- Wheelchair loan
- Pushchair loan
- Nursing room
- Baby changing table
- Accessible toilet
- Lift
- Written notes / sign language
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Place details
- Name
- Niigata Machinaka Community Plaza
- Name in Japanese
- 新潟 まちなか交流ひろば
- Type
- Community spaces · Public facility
- Address
- 新潟県新潟市中央区（架空）Shown in Japanese so you can show it to a taxi driver.
- Nearest station
- 新潟 Station · 12 min walkJR 信越本線 新潟駅 万代口 徒歩 12 分
- Hours
MonToday Closed Tue 09:00–21:30 Wed 09:00–21:30 Thu 09:00–21:30 Fri 09:00–21:30 Sat 09:00–21:30 Sun 09:00–21:30 9:00–21:30 / Closed Mondays (the following day if Monday is a public holiday) / Rooms by application
- Price guide
- Free–¥9,600
- Smoking
- No smoking
- Children
- Children welcome
- Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible, Stroller friendly, Accessible toilet
- Parking
- Yes
- Payment
- Cash, QR payments, Other
- Languages
- Japanese
The place sent us this information. It may have changed — please check with the place before you go. Last updated Nov 4, 2026.
Map & access
新潟県新潟市中央区（架空）
Shown in Japanese so you can show it to a taxi driver.
Nearest station: 新潟 Station · 12 min walkJR 信越本線 新潟駅 万代口 徒歩 12 分
