Price ： Adults 2,000 yen, Children 800 yen (tax included)
Sales and validity period ： Saturday, 1/13/2024 – Sunday, 3/10/2024
Sales locations ： MonET, Nohbutai, Matsudai Local History Museum, Last Classroom, Kyororo, House of Light, Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel, Tokamachi General Tourist Information Center, Matsudai and Matsunoyama Onsen Tourist Information Center, Tsunan Tourist Association

Facilities open to visitors
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art MonET
Matsudai Nohbutai Field Museum
The Last Classroom
Echigo-Matsunoyama “Forest School” Kyororo
Echigo-Matsunoyama “Forest School” Kyororo ・House of Light

Facilities with discount privileges】 ※The common winter ticket is not valid for admission.
Tunnel of Light: 500 yen discount for adults, 50 yen discount for elementary and junior high school students.

This is a solo exhibition of Ai Tanaka, a painter from Aichi Prefecture who creates abstract paintings using mineral pigments (paints made of crushed ore particles).

When the paint is applied to form a shape and become a painting, the sparkle of the particles is what attracts attention. This exhibition is set in Tokamachi in the middle of winter, when snow piles up in a thick, sometimes pounding, heap, and consists of new works by a painter who attempts to create a world that can be reconfigured in a roundabout way by drawing from line to circle all at once.
Guest curator: Mayu Hiyama (Curator, Recruit Art Center)
Photo: Adachi Ryo

Dates: 1/13 (Sat) – 3/10 (Sun), closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Hours: 10:00 – 17:00 (last admission 16:30)
Fee: Common winter ticket or individual tickets (¥1,200 for adults, ¥600 for elementary and junior high school students)
Fees include admission to the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art MonET permanent exhibition and special exhibitions.

Related event “Let’s make snow paintings with your body
Date：2/24 (Sat) 13:00-
Place: Outside MonET, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, Echigo-Tsumari
Fee: Included in the museum admission fee

Based on the concept of “waiting” (embracing) the snow, giant people will appear in the pond and corridor of MonET. Please enjoy the experience of looking up at the naturally falling snow, facing the snow, and feeling the gift from nature with your whole body.

Dates: Saturday, Sunday, and holidays from 1/20 (Sat.) to 3/10 (Sun.)
Hours: 10:00 – 17:00 (last admission at 16:30)
Fee: Common winter ticket or individual tickets (¥1,200 for adults, ¥600 for elementary and junior high school students)
*The pond exhibit will be open from 1/27 (Sat.)-1/27 (Sat.).
*Some works may be closed due to weather conditions.

Photo by Nakamura Osamu

Let’s experience an old game that has been passed down in the village. Hanekkeshi” is a small New Year’s event in Echigo-Tsumari, where people play shuttlecock with “kosuki,” an old snow removal tool.

Date & Time: 1/20 (Sat.) – 3/10 (Sun.) Saturday and Sunday (*No national holidays) 10:00 – 15:00
Fee: One entry with a common winter ticket or individual tickets.
*Due to light snowfall, the event has been canceled on 1/13,14,20,21

Related Event｜Gourmet Hospitality
Date: 2/3 (Sat), 17 (Sat), 24 (Sat), 3/2 (Sat)

Enjoy the snow and winter satoyama of Echigo-Tsumari, one of the world’s heaviest snowfall areas, with all your senses. In addition to new artworks and permanent exhibits, snow tubing using the steep slopes characteristic of mountainous regions and a “Snow Play Square” on the snow piled up in the rice paddies are just a few of the many activities that await you. Please take the leaflet with the stamp rally in your hand and tour around the satoyama with heavy snowfall!

Snow Activities/Mini Events
A variety of snow activities and mini-events will be held on a weekly basis, such as banana boating, snow tubing, wood-chopping, a snow soccer tournament with FC Echigo-Tsumari, and kanjiki (Japanese snowshoes). (photo Nakamura Osamu)

Snow Activities】 【Snow Tubing
Snow tubing
Hand-pushed sled
Snowboarding
Snowboarding, Snow tubing, Hand-pushed sledding, Snowboarding, Bonfire
Rice cakes and marshmallows roasting (extra charge)
Bonfire coffee (extra charge)

Mini-event
Mochitsuki (rice cake pounding) contest
Harvest festival in the snow
Wood-chopping experience
Banana Boat
Snowboard Class
Snowboarding class ・Snow soccer
Snow maze making (snow shoes experience)
Snow maze
Snow maze ・Kanjiki tour to the “Tower of Holding Hands” in the snow

Banana boat and snow maze making are for elementary school students and older.
*Subject to change due to weather conditions.

photo Nakamura Osamu

As if growing out of the earth, the mirrored plate work, torn in two, reflects the snow and sky, swaying in the wind and creating a landscape.

Photo by Nakamura Osamu

FC Echigo-Tsumari, a women’s agricultural soccer team, will perform stretches that lead to the regeneration of the body’s natural motor functions. Let’s enjoy moving your body with the players of FC Echigo-Tsumari who have learned the methods of “R-body project Inc.

Venue, Date and Time
1) Matsudai History Museum: 1/14 (Sun), 1/28 (Sun), 2/11 (Sun), 2/25 (Sun), 3/10 (Sun) 10:00-11:00
MonET Onsen Bldg. (Multi-purpose room): 1/21 (Sun.), 2/4 (Sun.), 2/18 (Sun.), 3/3 (Sun.) 13:00-14:00
Nunagawa Campus: 1/22 (Mon.), 2/5 (Mon.), 2/19 (Mon.), 3/4 (Mon.) 9:00-10:00

Fee] 500 yen per visit (tax included)
100 yen discount for one time only when you show your Winter Common Ticket.
Free for preschool children

Christian Boltanski + Jean Kalman “The Last Classroom” photo T.Kuratani

Open: Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays only
Hours: 10:00 – 16:00
Fee: Common winter ticket or individual tickets (¥800 for adults, ¥400 for elementary and junior high school students)

Echigo Matsunoyama “Forest School” Kyororo

Open Days：Full year (permanent exhibition + special exhibition)
Closed: Tuesdays and Wednesdays (or the following weekday if the day falls on a national holiday) *Closed on Tuesdays during December
Hours: 9:00-16:00 (last admission at 15:30)
Fee ：Common winter ticket or individual tickets (¥500 for adults, free for junior high school students and younger)

[Special Exhibitions
1) “Snow Rich* Tokamachi, which curators and researchers can’t help but want to introduce
2) “The Story of Bijinrin Monogatari” (2) “The Story of Bijinrin”
Two special exhibitions are being held until March 10. In addition, a popular winter-only experience, “Snowshoeing,” is also available.

James Turrell “House of Light”

photo Nakamura Osamu

Closed: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Wednesdays only in March *Temporary closing on 2/23
Hours: 11:30-15:00 (last admission at 14:30)
Fee ：Common winter ticket or individual tickets (600 yen for junior high school students and older, 300 yen for elementary school students)

Tunnel of Light” by Ma Jansson / MAD Architects
Photo Nakamura Osamu

Closed: Open daily (temporary closure depending on snowfall/entrance facilities closed during winter)
Hours: 9:00-16:00 (last tunnel entrance at 15:30) until 2/28, 8:30-17:00 (last tunnel entrance at 16:30) from 3/1
Admission: ¥1,000 for adults, ¥400 for elementary school students and junior high school students (winter ticket holders receive a discount only; admission is not permitted).
Privilege: 500 yen discount for general admission and 50 yen discount for elementary and junior high school students upon presentation of the winter common ticket.

Satoyama Buffet & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour

Tunnel of light (Kiyotsukyo Valley Tunnel), The Last Classroom, Matsudai Nohbutai, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET (Photo Yanagi Ayumi)

Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday from 1/20 (Sat) to 2/25 (Sun)
Infants (3-5 years old): 3,000 yen, children under 3 years old: 0 yen (infant fee if meals and bus seat are required)
Stopover works: Tunnel of light (Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel), The Last Classroom, Nohbutai, MonET
*If Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel is closed due to heavy snowfall, the tour will be changed to another work.

Snow Viewing Gozen Tour

Tunnel of light (Kiyotsukyo Valley Tunnel), The Last Classroom, Matsudai Nohbutai, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET (Photo Yanagi Ayumi)

Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday from 1/20 (Sat) to 2/25 (Sun)
Infants (3-5 years old): 3,000 yen, children under 3 years old: 0 yen (infant fee if meals and bus seat are required)
Stopover works: Tunnel of light (Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel), The Last Classroom, Nohbutai, MonET
*If Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel is closed due to heavy snowfall, the tour will be changed to another work.