Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Official Tour "'JIKU #013 HOKUHOKU-LINE' Course" (May 2 and 8 only)

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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Official Tour "'JIKU #013 HOKUHOKU-LINE' Course" (May 2 and 8 only)

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This two-day tour starts and ends at Echigo-Yuzawa Station. The tour will visit artworks located near stations in the Echigo-Tsumari region, with a focus on artworks to be exhibited for a limited time at Misashima Station, a station located in a tunnel, which is rare in Japan. Lunch will be served at "Ubusuna House", where you will enjoy a delicious meal prepared with local ingredients. This guided bus tour is suitable for first-time visitors and solo travelers.

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10:00 Meet at and depart from Echigo-Yuzawa station

70 min

10:40 Enjoy Satoyama after the snow melts

Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum

This is the base facility for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, which just reopened last summer. With large outdoor artworks and fields outdoors, visitors can enjoy art while experiencing the great outdoors and local life.

Matsudai Station

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15min

11:35 A special experience available only to those who board the train

Panoramatics/Seiichi Saito "JIKU #013 HOKUHOKU-LINE

structures. The work uses light and sound to express the preciousness and energy of connecting regional axes and points that have been obscured by urban development and other factors.

tunnel train station

Details

25min

12:25 A landmark in the community where people gather

Mikangumi + Kanagawa University Sogabe Laboratory "Shimojo Thatched Tower

An 11-meter-high thatched tower has appeared in front of Shimojo Station on the JR Iiyama Line. Inside the tower, folk tools brought by local residents are suspended.

station

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15min

13:00 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. New on the menu this year are Tsumari pork stewed pork and fried fu under the supervision of Chef Yutaka Matsuura, who runs "manoma" in Tsuruoka. Interaction with the mothers is also a part of the fun.

house

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Fuse Tomoko "UBUSUNA WHITE"

Folding white paper expresses respect for the spirit-like beings that dwell in the "Ubusuna House. This is a new work developed by Tomoko Fuse, an origami artist from Niigata Prefecture.

origami

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20min

14:20 Speaks to the coincidences and inevitabilities of the world.

mé "repetitive objects"

The two rocks in the plaza in front of Uonuma-Nakajo Station Station are both exactly the same shape. This seemingly ordinary view can be a place that reminds us of something important.

Station

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14:50 Renovated last summer, the region's leading contemporary art museum

Museum on Echigo-Tsumari

This is the base facility of the Art Triennale, which was renovated last summer and opened to the public with many new works.
A series of memorial exhibitions will be held in memory of the departed artists and their works.

Echigo-Tsumari Museum

Details

15min

16:05 The Story of a Train Connecting Satoyama and the City

Jimmy Liao, "Kiss&Goodbye (Doichi Station)"

This work was installed based on the picture book "Shiawase no Kippu Kiss & Goodbye" set on the JR Iiyama Line. As the train moves forward, the message of the picture book, which gives us the courage to open up our lives, is conveyed through pictures, video, and music.

Station

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50 min

17:10 Arrive at Echigo Yuzawa Station and disband

Notice

*Itineraries are subject to change or cancellation due to natural disasters or road conditions.

*Tour sales and operation may be cancelled due to the spread of the coronavirus. The decision to implement the tour will be made in accordance with the guidelines of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale.

*We ask for your cooperation in taking local measures against coronavirus infection when participating in the tour.

*We will assign you a seat on the bus. If you have a companion for another application, please enter it in the remarks column.

*Participants who wish to do so may make a stopover at the last stopover artwork. If you wish to make a stopover, please enter it in the remarks column when applying for the tour.

*Arrival time at the final destination may be changed. Please make sure to reserve your return Shinkansen train with enough time to spare.

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Summary

Dates	Monday, May 2 and Sunday, May 8
Admission	13,000 yen (bus fare, lunch, guide fee, consumption tax) A passport to view the artworks is required to participate in the exhibition. If you do not have a passport, please purchase one at the time of tour purchase.
Deadline	By 16:00 two days prior to the tour date
Origin / Destination	Echigo Yuzawa Station East Exit Bus Terminal
Transportation	Bus
Capacity	15 (minimum number of reminders: 1)
Host	Travel planning and execution: Niigata Prefecture Governor's Registered Travel Agency Region-440, NPO Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organization 3743-1 Matsudai, Tokamachi-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Travel Agents Association regular member 025-761-7749 / tour@tsumari-artfield.com
Note	No tour guide will accompany the tour. Please read the terms and conditions of this tour before participating. NPO Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organization Travel Conditions NPO Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organization Standard Conditions of Travel For inquiries, please contact the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Information Center at 025-761-7767 (9:00-18:00, closed on Wednesdays).

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