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

2024/11/20 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.

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

About Echigo-Tsumari

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Events

^11/23SAT ‐ ^1/13MON

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

Furniture for the Field Museum

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

THE BIRTH OF THE SPRING

José de Guimarães

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Neons for Three Gateways

Stephen Antonakos

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.)

Ting-King-Ping in Kyororo—Sound Source

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Camera Obscura Project

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

Carlos Garaicoa

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

Christian Boltanski＋Jean Kalman others

Tokamachi Industry and Crafts Center ” Ikote”

Tezuka Takaharu + Tezuka Yui

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

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 Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama＆Mtsudai 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 Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama area-1] 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 Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama area-2] 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 Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Tsunan 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 Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

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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