Sekikawa (関川村, Sekikawa-mura) is a village located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Sekikawa has a Humid climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm, wet summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall.
[2] Per Japanese census data,[4] the population of Sekikawa has declined steadily over the past 50 years.
During the Edo period, much of the area was part of the holdings of Yonezawa Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.
The area was organized as part of Iwafune District, Niigata following the Meiji restoration.