Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

【arrival/departure from the station】Enjoy Echigo-Tsumari tour even beyond the ETAT period

Official tours are available at any time!

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.7

Exhibition: Miyake Kan "Neutral Person" will be open to the public for an extended period of time! (~June 22)

2025/3/10 EAT＆STAY

【Katakuri House】Introducing 3 tour courses around Akiyamago

2025/1/31 Exhibition

"Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025 Winter" Open！

2024/11/20 Exhibition

Jan 25 - Mar 9 "Echigo - Tsumari winter 2025"

2024/11/17 Tours

【Jan 11-13】Official Koshogatsu Tour is now available!

2024/11/14 Award

The World Bank has published a report on Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale as a model of local revitalization through art.

About Echigo-Tsumari

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Events

^4/27SUN ‐ ^5/3SAT

Wild Vegetable Cooking Class Making Spring Taste of Butterbur Sprout Miso

^4/26SAT ‐ ^7/18FRI

[Date] 4/26 (Sat.) ～ *Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays except national holidays.

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Spring 2025

After overcoming the heavy snowfall of the winter, come and enjoy Echigo-Tsumari in the spring, when the snow melts and the greenery grows! Come and enjoy the charm of Echigo-Tsumari in the spring.

^4/26SAT ‐ ^5/4SUN

Spring Satoyama Walks in Search of Wild vegetables, Flowers, and Creatures

Take a stroll through the spring countryside and search for wild vegetables and early spring flowers with a local guide.

^1/25SAT ‐ ^6/22SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.7
Miyake Kan "Neutral Person"

A series of special exhibitions held at the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET from 2023. Guest curators will select an artist for each exhibition.

Artworks / Artists

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Kawaguchi Tatsuo

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Boys with Red Loincloth Returned

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

GHOST SATELLITES

Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Voice from afar

Nakatani Michiko

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Matsudai History Museum

Temporary closing

Tunnel of Light

Ma Yansong / MAD Architects

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

The Longest River

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Project of Making a View with Mudwall in Matsudai Town

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Explore Echigo-Tsumari

Museum of the one and only site-specific art, built by Hara Hiroshi

The base facility of the "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale". The architecture was designed by Hara Hiroshi + ATLIERΦ, who also designed the Kyoto Station Building. Fifteen permanent works by artists from Japan and abroad are on display throughout the year, with special exhibitions held seasonally and a museum shop. In 2021, the museum reopened with a major relocation of the permanent collection.

Approx. 40 pieces of art on and around the NOHBUTAI. From playful to representative works.

The Matsudai NOHBUTAI is a base facility designed by Dutch architect group MVRDV. Approximately 40 works of art are scattered in a 2-km area of satoyama from Matsudai NOHBUTAI to Matsudai Castle at the top of the mountain, and the entire area is called the "Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum.

Natural science museum where children are fascinated. Withstands 2000 tons of snow in winter.

A 10-minutes drive from Matsudai Station, Kyororo is a natural science museum that provides deep insights into the ecology of the local area and its characteristic natural landscape of terraced rice fields, beech forests, and thatched roof houses.

The House of Light is a work of art created by James Turrell, renowned globally as "an artist of light". At this experimental piece you can experience the artist's world of art, is an architectural structure unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It was conceived as a guest house for meditation, as Turrell found this concept in Junichiro Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows". He came up with the idea of incorporating his work on light into the intimate light of a traditional Japanese-style house.

The Kamigo Junior High School closed down in 2012 but was reopened as a new base for the performing arts. Kamigo Clove Theatre functions as a residency, practice facility, and a performing arts stage and theatre. Artists are invited to reside in this facility and lead a "satoyama" lifestyle and learn through collaboration with local people to influence their performances. Within the building is also a unique restaurant where meals are served by local women while they "perform" a theatrical piece. (Opened irregularly)

Enjoy local home cooking of the four seasons with beautiful pottery at Ubusunano House

This old thatched-roof house is about 100 years old. Enjoy seasonal home-style dishes prepared by local mothers in dishes created by a leading Japanese ceramic artist.

Collaboration of natural beauty and art that changes with the seasons.

One of Echigo-Tsumari's representative sights, the Kiyotsukyo Valley Tunnel has been refurbished by fusing it with art works. A tunnel with a total length of 750m is likened to a submarine cut off from the outside world.
*Advance reservations are required during peak seasons (GW, consecutive holidays, Obon, and autumn foliage season).

Visit

[From/to Echigo-Yuzawa Station] Snowmelt Echigo-Tsumari cource

This is a highlights tour of the masterpieces of Echigo-Tsumari. Enjoy art alongside the snow and the budding of spring in the satoyama. For lunch, you will taste dishes made with seasonal ingredients at the Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo.

Spring Echigo-Tsumari Course 2025

This is a digest tour showcasing the masterpieces of Echigo-Tsumari. Enjoy art amidst the lush greenery of the satoyama landscape. Lunch is served at the Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo, featuring seasonal ingredients. In May, the menu will be rich with dishes made from fresh mountain vegetables.

[From/to Echigo-Yuzawa Station] Spring Echigotsumari Course [Ubusuna Lunch Tour]

Spring is the season for wild vegetables. At Ubusuna House, you can enjoy seasonal ingredients, including wild vegetables picked by the local women. You can also view artworks such as the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel along with the fresh greenery.

［Echigo-Yuzawa Sta. / Day Trip] Tour of Akiyamago, an unexplored region with heavy snowfall (no guide)

You will also visit the popular "Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel" and “Akeyama Arts Center,” a facility that conveys Akiyama’d culture through art. Lunch will be served at “Katakuri House,” a restaurant that uses local ingredients to warm your body and soul. How about visiting the harsh and beautiful world of Akiyamago, an unexplored region during the harsh winter season? The stopover will be changed to a different one (as of February 17).

Echigo-Tsumari in the snow, a relaxing train tour

A train trip to Echigo-Tsumari, completely covered with snow. Enjoy the taste of winter and art in a relaxing one-day trip.

[Tokamachi & Kawanishi area] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour

Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people.
*There is a possibility that the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site. *Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel is currently closed due to heavy snowfall. The tour stop will be changed to another artwork. (As of February 17)

Support

Matsudai Tanada Bank

Open invitation to those who wish to help maintain terraced rice field in the ageing community. Let’s make Echigo-Tsumari rice in this Koshihikari-rice-growing district.

FC Echigo-Tsumari

Activities by a female football team consisting of members who have moved to the region and taken over rice production in the terraced rice field.

Engaging supporters with management and maintenance of artworks, and rice planting and harvesting. Approximately 3000 people from around the world participate in those activeties.

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