Tours
Satoyama Art Tours ( Reservation required )
Northbound and Southbound tours
<JR Joetsu Shinkansen connections>
※1 Max Toki 307 Tokyo 7:48 ― Echigo-Yuzawa 9:04
※2 Max Tanigawa 424 Echigo-Yuzawa 19:10 - Tokyo 20:40
Northbound 1: Tokamachi & Kawanishi areas
Dates:
odd days & weekends
July 26, 27,29,31
Aug 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,11,13,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,29,30,31
Sep 1,3,5,6,7,9,11,12,13
*Featuring: "Closed School Projects" and "House of Light"
*Lunch at Ubusuna House
Itinerary:
Northbound 2: Tokamachi & Matsudai areas
Dates:
even days & weekends
Jul 26, 28, 30
Aug 1,2,4,6,8,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,22,23,24,26,28,29,30
Sep 2,4,5,6,8,10,12,13
Featuring: "Museum of Picture Book Art" and "Fukutake House"
*Lunch at No Butai
Itinerary:
Southbound 1: Nakasato & Tsunan areas
Dates:
odd days & weekends
July 26, 27,29,31
Aug 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,11,13,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,29,30,31
Sep 1,3,5,6,7,9,11,12,13
*Featuring: "North-East Asian Art Village" and local dynamic landscapes
*Lunch at Omoya restaurant
Itinerary:
Southbound 2: Matsudai & Matsunoyama areas
Dates:
even days & weekends
Jul 26, 28, 30
Aug 1,2,4,6,8,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,22,23,24,26,28,29,30
Sep 2,4,5,6,8,10,12,13
*Featuring: popular "Vacant House Projects" in Matsudai & Matsunoyama areas
*Lunch at "Kyororo"
Itinerary:
Digest Tour ( Reservation required )
Visit main artworks throughout the region in a large tour bus. Afternoon route also available.
Tour departs and returns to Tokamachi Station West Exit, proceeding via Echigo-Yuzawa Station East Exit and Nagaoka Station East Exit. (Afternoon route departs from Matsudai Station)
Charge: Adults 4,000 yen (afternoon route 3,000 yen), Children 2,500 yen (afternoon route 2,000 yen)
*Meals and ETAT Passport fee not included.
Information: Echigo Kotsu Golden Tour Tel: +81(0)120 865 615
Dates of service: Every Saturday and Sunday
Matsudai-Matsunoyama Area Bus Tour ( Reservation required )
An excursion focusing on the Matsudai-Matsunoyama area. Saturday route and Sunday route available.
Tour departs and returns to Naoetsu Station, proceeding via Matsudai Station
Charge: 5,800 yen *Includes lunch. ETAT Passport not included.
Information: Kubiki Jidosha Co., Marukei Travel Center Tel: +81(0)25 543 4120
JTB SUNRISE TOURS
Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival Free Plan
Northbound and Southbound tours
- ・A total of four routes, weekdays two routes each on odd and even dates.
- ・Saturdays and Sundays all four routes.
- ・No artwork covered by more than one route.
- ・Taking all four tours enables visitors to see main new artworks.
- ・Tours depart and return to Tokamachi Station West Exist, proceeding via
- ・Echigo-Yuzawa Station East Exist and Nagaoka Station East Exit.
- ・If you use JR Joetsu Shinkansen, it is convenient to get on and off at Echigo-Yuzawa.
| Departure time | Echigo-Yuzawa East Exit8 | 9:15 ※１ |
| Tokamachi West Exit | 10:15 | |
| Arrival time | Tokamachi West Exit | 18:00 |
| Echigo-Yuzawa East Exit | 18:50 ※２ |
<JR Joetsu Shinkansen connections>
※1 Max Toki 307 Tokyo 7:48 ― Echigo-Yuzawa 9:04
※2 Max Tanigawa 424 Echigo-Yuzawa 19:10 - Tokyo 20:40
- ・Charge: 5,800 yen (including lunch, ETAT passport not included)
- ・Passport is sold at the Satoyama Art Tour Reception Desk at Tokamachi Station West Exit.
- ・No English guide. The English guidebook which explains all 370 works is available at 1,500 yen and sold at the Satoyama Art Tour Reception Desk.
- ・Reservation: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial General Information Center
Tel: +81 (0)25-595-6688 Fax: +81 (0)25-757-2285
Email: info@tsumari-artfield.com
Northbound 1: Tokamachi & Kawanishi areas
Dates:
odd days & weekends
July 26, 27,29,31
Aug 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,11,13,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,29,30,31
Sep 1,3,5,6,7,9,11,12,13
*Featuring: "Closed School Projects" and "House of Light"
*Lunch at Ubusuna House
Itinerary:
| Work Number | Photo | Artist | Title / Site / Description |
| 12 |  | Tomoko Mukaiyama | "Wasted" / former Tobitari Elementary School |
| 13 |  | Kyoto Seika University | "Karekimata Project" / former Karekimata Elementary School |
| 7 |  | Ubusuna House (lunch) | Ceramic gallery with works by 7 top ceramic artists |
| 8 |  | Hiroshi Furugori | "The Placenta-Misyaguchi" |
| 9 |  | 7 artists including: Atsushi Ozawa, Ryoichi Yamazaki, Kumi Yamashita, Kimihito Tange | former Higashi-Shimogumi Elementary School |
| 3 |  | Dominique Perrault | "Pavillon / Papillon" |
| 63 |  | James Turrell | "House of Light" / Nakago Green Park |
| 86 |  | Tokyo University of the Arts | "Conquering Snow Dynamo Art Project" / former Senda Elementary School |
| 81 |  | Teika Ito | "Flower Dwelling House" |
| 82 |  | Rolf Julius | "Trees (Listening)" |
| 80 |  | Kazuo Kenmochi | "Shirakura Garden" |
| 75 |  | Kazuyo Iwaki + Tokyo Denki Univesity | "FRP Fabric Copse" |
| And more | |||
Northbound 2: Tokamachi & Matsudai areas
Dates:
even days & weekends
Jul 26, 28, 30
Aug 1,2,4,6,8,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,22,23,24,26,28,29,30
Sep 2,4,5,6,8,10,12,13
Featuring: "Museum of Picture Book Art" and "Fukutake House"
*Lunch at No Butai
Itinerary:
| Work Number | Photo | Artist | Title / Site / Description |
| 23 |  | Antony Gormley | "Another Singularity" |
| 33 |  | Seizo Tashima | "Hachi & Seizo Tajima Museum of Picture Book Art" |
| 38 |  | Fukutake House | 9 Asian galleries: Keumsan Gallery, nichido contemporary art, hiromiyoshii, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Long March Space, Kenji Taki Gallery, SCAI The Bathhouse, ShugoArts, Gallery Koyanagi |
| 147 |  | No Butai (lunch) | MVRDV's designed building with the works by Kabakov, Vilmouth, Hybert, Kusama and many more |
| 204 |  | Aguri & Ari Uchida + Musashino Art Univ. | "Our Home" |
| 203 |  | SMak | "The Visitors"/ open from Aug 8 |
| 201 |  | MIKAN + BankART1929 + 50 artists | "BankART Tsumari" |
| 202 |  | Maaria Wirkkala | "TIRAMI SU 3: Lift me up: one way or another" |
| 200 |  | Claude Lévèque | "In silence or in noises" |
| 199 |  | Richard Deacon | "Mountain" |
| And more | |||
Southbound 1: Nakasato & Tsunan areas
Dates:
odd days & weekends
July 26, 27,29,31
Aug 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,11,13,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,29,30,31
Sep 1,3,5,6,7,9,11,12,13
*Featuring: "North-East Asian Art Village" and local dynamic landscapes
*Lunch at Omoya restaurant
Itinerary:
| Work Number | Photo | Artist | Title / Site / Description |
| 28 |  | Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller | "Storm House" |
| 131 |  | Tokyo Denki Univ + Kyoritsu Women's Univ | "Reflecting House" |
| 132 |  | Koji Yamamoto | "Kiyotsu Canyon Tunnel Museum" |
| - | Lunch at Omoya | Kiyotsu Canyon | |
| 130 |  | Taeko Tomiyama | "Embracing Asia: The Complete 1950-2009" |
| 134 |  | Casagrand & Rintala | "Potemkin" |
| 91 - 95 102 - 104 |  | North-East Asian Art Village | Guan Huaibin, Chun Kyungja, Kim Koohan, Cai Guo-Qiang+Jennifer Wen Ma, Lee Jaehyo, Lin Shuen Long, Kingsley Ng, Kenji Shimotori |
| 97 - 100 |  | Mountain Park Tsunan | Nishi, Tchapkanov, Kurimura, Takizawa |
| And more | |||
Southbound 2: Matsudai & Matsunoyama areas
Dates:
even days & weekends
Jul 26, 28, 30
Aug 1,2,4,6,8,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,22,23,24,26,28,29,30
Sep 2,4,5,6,8,10,12,13
*Featuring: popular "Vacant House Projects" in Matsudai & Matsunoyama areas
*Lunch at "Kyororo"
Itinerary:
| Work Number | Photo | Artist | Title / Site / Description |
| 192 |  | Kazufusa Komaki + Nocturnal Studio | "The house of cocoons -Sericulture project" |
| 191 |  | Yomogihira / Ikebana House | 9 ikebana artists install their works in turn during the Triennial. |
| 214 / 215 |  | Junichi Kurakake + Nihon Univ College of Art Sculpture Course | "Croquette House" "Shedding House" |
| 223 |  | Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science "Kyororo " (lunch) | The architecture designed by Takaharu Tezuka with the works by Osaka, Endo and others |
| 229 |  | Tokyo City Univ Tezuka Lab + Naoyoshi Hikosaka | "Rei House" |
| 240 |  | Marina Abramovic | "Dream House" |
| 241 |  | Janet Laurence | "Elixir" |
| 242 |  | Lauren Berkowitz Robyn Backen | "Harvest House" "Rice Talk" |
| 234 |  | Christian Boltanski + Jean Kalman | "The Last Class" |
| 235 |  | EARTHSCAPE | "Medical Herbman Café Project" |
| 232 |  | Chiharu Shiota | "House Memory" |
| 115 |  | Hiroki Ohara | "Infinity along the groove" |
| 109 |  | Yukihisa Isobe | "Natural levee of old shinano river has excavated here in this area" |
| And more | |||
Digest Tour ( Reservation required )
Visit main artworks throughout the region in a large tour bus. Afternoon route also available.
Tour departs and returns to Tokamachi Station West Exit, proceeding via Echigo-Yuzawa Station East Exit and Nagaoka Station East Exit. (Afternoon route departs from Matsudai Station)
Charge: Adults 4,000 yen (afternoon route 3,000 yen), Children 2,500 yen (afternoon route 2,000 yen)
*Meals and ETAT Passport fee not included.
Information: Echigo Kotsu Golden Tour Tel: +81(0)120 865 615
Dates of service: Every Saturday and Sunday
Matsudai-Matsunoyama Area Bus Tour ( Reservation required )
An excursion focusing on the Matsudai-Matsunoyama area. Saturday route and Sunday route available.
Tour departs and returns to Naoetsu Station, proceeding via Matsudai Station
Charge: 5,800 yen *Includes lunch. ETAT Passport not included.
Information: Kubiki Jidosha Co., Marukei Travel Center Tel: +81(0)25 543 4120
JTB SUNRISE TOURS
Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival Free Plan