9:15 First day / Meet at and depart from Echigo-Yuzawa station

65 min

10:20 Arrival at Matsudai NOHBUTAI

10:30 First half of rice planting

First half of rice planting

After changing into your rice-planting boots, it's time to head to the terraced rice fields that dot the Matsudai-Shiroyama area. Join local farmers, farm staff, and FC Echigo-Tsumari members in the rice paddies.

12:00 [Lunch] Special curry from Satoyama Shokudo

13:00 Rice planting: Second half

Rice planting: Second half

Once you have recharged your hunger and energy, let's continue the second half of the day's work to get to the hot springs after rice planting.

15 min

15:30 Hot spring

15 min

17:00 Dinner / Tanada Bank get-together

Tanada Bank get-together in the semi-outdoor Piloti of NOHBUTAI

After relaxing your tired body in the hot spring, all participants will get together for a get-together. Rice from the terraced rice paddies and local seasonal ingredients will be served. Adults and children alike will enjoy eating together.
*This year, the event will be held in the semi-outdoor Piloti of NOHBUTAI.

10 min

19:30 Stay in Sansho House

Sansho House

Sansho House is an abandoned school facility in Matsunoyama that became a guesthouse after the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in 2006. Local mothers serve warm home-cooked meals.

Closed School Stay

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9:00 Second day / Departure from Sansho House

20 min

9:20 Beautiful terraced rice paddies recognized as "Tsunagu Tanada Heritage”

Terraced Paddy Fields of Hoshitoge

About 200 rice paddies of various sizes spread out on the slopes like fish scales, showing various faces from season to season, morning, noon and night.

Agri Culture Rice Field

20 min

9:50 Matsudai Campsite Parking Lot

20 min

10:10 A castle in a satoyama turned into a unique space of art

Matsudai Castle

“Matsudai Castle" is located at the top of Joyama, a three-story castle where Esther Stocker, Ryo Toyofuku, and Kurakake Junichi + Nihon University College of Art Sculpture Course create their works.

Castle

20 min

11:00 Field museum base spreading in satoyama

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, “The Arch of Life”

Each statue represents different stages of life, starting from human being with an egg-shaped head, “a boy” crawling on the ground, “a man carrying a box of light” emitting light, “a man trying to climb up wall or an eternal exile” and “the end – worn-out man”.

Outdoor

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10 min

11:20 The culmination of Kabakov, one of the leading artists of ETAT

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, “The Monument of Tolerance”

The tower was created to symbolize connections beyond ethnicity, religion, and culture, peace, respect, dialogue, and coexistence. The monument on the tower will change color depending on whether there is a problem or good news.

Illumination

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20 min

12:00 Lodging experience by James Turrell

House of Light

This work was inspired by ”In Praise of Shadows”(Junichiro Tanizaki) and was created to fuse the intimate light in a traditional Japanese house with the light works he has created.

Stay

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20 min

13:00 [Lunch] Thatched private house pottery restaurant

Enjoy handmade lunch by mothers at Ubusuna House

The restaurant is a 100-year-old thatched-roof old house. Local mothers serve seasonal small bowls of vegetables they grow themselves and bring to the restaurant, as well as a main dish. It is also a wonderful time to interact with the local mothers.

Lunch

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5 min

14:05 A grand work attempted to "give a shape to a subtle presence of the place"

"The placenta - Misyaguchi" by Furugori Hiroshi

The artist's work for ETAT2006 has been treasured by local people. As the title of the work "placenta" represents, the space of the work provides a secret and calm atmosphere as if you are protected by something as if a fetus is protected by the placenta.

Outdoor

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25 min

14:40 Artwork using work tools imbued with feelings

Kawaguchi Tatsuo, ”Time of Farm Tools”

In the yellow-painted exhibition space, a work of art is hung with farm tools that were created by tracing the actual use of the tools by local residents. Visitors can actually touch and hold the tools.

Farm Tools

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15 min

15:10 Contemporary art museum representaing the Echigo-Tsumari

Museum on Echigo-Tsumari

The base facility of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, featuring works by prominent contemporary artists such as Kohei Nawa, Michiko Nakatani, and 目 [mé].

Base Facility Architecture

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45 min

16:00 Returns to Echigo-Yuzasa station, the tour completes.