Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Information on artworks that can be viewed after Nov 11

Popular "Satoyama buffet" Buffet served daily on weekdays(until 3/31)

Open in winter! Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo

2024/11/17 Tours

2024/11/14 Award

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

2024/11/10 ETAT2024

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 202 Closing!

2024/10/24 Released artworks

Information on artworks that can be viewed after Nov 11

2024/9/29 Other

Matsudai Station x 24-hour car sharing underway until 10 Nov, 2024

About Echigo-Tsumari

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Events

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Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.6 Mitsuoka Koichi
"there is a lot of danger around here"

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

Project of Making a View with Mudwall in Matsudai Town

Open all year round (2024/ 4/27-11/25: closed Tue & Wed except holidays, 11/30-2025/3/31: weekends & holidays only)

Théâtre d’ombres （Theatre of Shadows）

Christian Boltanski

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed for year-end and New Year's holidays 26 Dec, 2023-3 Jan, 2024

Open all year / Closed on Tue except holidays *[-11/30] Tue, [12/1-3/9]Tue & Wed, Closed for year-end and New Year’s holidays: 12/26 (Thu.) – 1/1 (Wed.)

Metamorphosis : The Memory that Dwells in ‘Place’

Kasahara Yukiko／Miyamori Haruna

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed for year-end and New Year's holidays 26 Dec, 2023-3 Jan, 2024

Jean-Luc Vilmouth

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Open on 2024/8/13, 14

Wellenwanne LFO

Carsten Nicolai

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed during the year-end and New Year holidays: 12/24 (Tue) – 1/3 (Fri)

NOHBUTAI Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai

The Netherlands

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

The Netherlands／Japan

John Körmeling (text design Katsumi Asaba)

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Homage to Rachel Carson: Four Little Stories

Fujiwara Yoshiko

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] A: Echigo-Tsumari route

Digest tour of all six areas of Echigo-Tsumari. The tour will trace the history of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, focusing on the base facilities where new works and special exhibitions are developed. You can enjoy lunch at TSUMARI KITCHEN, where you will enjoy a new tour-only menu supervised by Chef Yonezawa Fumio .
*Itineraries are subject to change. We will update this page as changes occur.

[From/to Matsudai station] E: Half-day Matsudai route

This course departs at 12:00 p.m. and does not include a guide & lunch. On Saturday and Sunday, you can tour new and old works in the Matsudai area. Enjoy the tour after a relaxing morning at a hotel or ryokan and a thorough visit to Matsudai "Nohbutai".

[From/to Tokamachi station] JIKU ＃013 HOKUHOKU-LINE route

[Limited operation on 10/20 (Sun), 27 (Sun), 11/9 (Sat)]You can experience the artwork by Panoramatiks/Saito Seiichi that uses a tunnel station and a train. In addition to the above, the tour also visits other artworks in Tokamachi and Kawanishi area. Lunch is at Ubusuna House, an old thatched-roof house, where you enjoy dishes prepared by local mothers.

９/7 Earth Sports Festival exective committiee Tour

Earth Sports Festival exective committiee is a comprehensive art form involving local residents, children, supporters, artists, and a diverse group of people from different nationalities, regions, generations, and genres. Spend a fun-filled day with people from different backgrounds. After the event, you will tour the artworks using all five senses. *In case of inclement weather (heavy rain, typhoon, lightning), the event will be canceled and the tour will also be cancelled.

【Start from JR Echigo-Yuzawa Station】Fresh Greenery and Sansai (Wild Vegetables) Tour

This tour visits Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, House of Light, and other representative Echigo-Tsumari art sites. Enjoy lunch at an old thatched house, where you will be served handmade meals prepared by the village mothers using an abundance of wild vegetables and local produce. Refresh your body and mind in the satoyama with its fresh green leaves. It takes 1 hour from Tokyo to Echigo Yuzawa Station by Shinkansen.

[From/to Tokamachi station] B: Tokamachi and Kawanishi route

This course takes you to the Tokamachi and Kawanishi areas on the north side of Echigo-Tsumari. You will enjoy Lunch at Ubusuna House, an old thatched-roof house where local mothers prepare dishes. If you are lucky, you may hear the famous Tokamachi Kouta.
*Itineraries are subject to change. We will update this page as changes occur.

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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