- Getting here
- First things first, get yourself here!
- Learn about the region
- Discover the distinctive charm of the six areas
- Where to Stay
- Spend the night in artworks and renovated schools
- Recommended itineraries
- Tips for exploration from Echigo-Tsumari expert
- Where to eat
- Homegrown rice, mountain vegetables, local sake, and more
- Find an event
- Explore our events calendar to help plan your visit
- Echigo-Tsumari Forest School
- Experience Satoyama with programs unwrapping Echigo-Tsumari’s magic.
- Kohebi
- Become a supporter of the Echigo-Tsumari!
- Daichi no tetsudai
- Helping the people of Echgo-Tsumari and Tohoku any way we can
- Tsumari Fan Club
- Deepen your relationship with Echigo-Tsumari
- Matsudai Tanada Bank
- Help us save terraced rice field.
- Echigo-Tsumari Art Net Disaster Reconstruction Fund
- For damaged artworks, local assistance, and reaching out to people in Tohoku.
- ROOOOTS
- Redesign Echigo-Tsumari specialities
- Australia House
- A residency and art creation base for artists from Australia
- East Asia Art Village
- Artworks by artists from countries in East Asia are presented.
- Minka owner
- Looking for minka owners
Echigo-Tsumari Forest School
Experience Satoyama, with programs unwrapping Echigo-Tsumari’s magic
The Forest School program includes workshops and talk events by artists and other specialists from diverse fields, walking around local villages, participating in farming, and checking out artworks. The programme is not just for kids – parents and adults can also find themselves entertained!
Who can participate?
All are welcome.
About the Forest School
The Echigo-Tsumari Forest School was opened in the summer of 2011 in the hope of turning Echigo-Tsumari into a place in which both locals and those affected by the Great Eastern Earthquake can share time, eat well and lift their spirits. Echigo-Tsumari will continue to extend our hands to Tohoku, lean on each other, and enjoy a “modest matsuri” together – a festival offering evidence of our existence.
Program
Please check an event calendar.
Please check how to apply, dates and price as no program is the same!
Participants in workshop by Seizo TashimaPhoto by Osamu Nakamura
Workshop by Katsuhiko Hibino at the Day After Tomorrow Newspaper Cultural DepartmentPhoto by Osamu Nakamura
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of the world's largest international art festivals, held every three years in the Echigo-Tsumari region, encompassing Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town in Niigata Prefecture.
A beautiful drawing on the package is best for wedding gifts!
Gift set for coffee break
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