Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

ETAT2024 Record Book is now on Sale!

【arrival/departure from the station】Enjoy Echigo-Tsumari tour even beyond the ETAT period

Official tours are available at any time!

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.7

Exhibition: Miyake Kan "Neutral Person" will be open to the public for an extended period of time! (~June 22)

2025/6/5 Released artworks

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025 Event confirmed!

2025/5/25 Events

[Matsudai “NOHBUTAI” Field Museum] 2025 Events & Workshop

Sales start on May 4, "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024" catalog!

2025/3/10 EAT＆STAY

【Katakuri House】Introducing 3 tour courses around Akiyamago

2025/1/31 Exhibition

"Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025 Winter" Open！

About Echigo-Tsumari

Learn about Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Events

^7/19SAT ‐ ^11/9SUN

NUNAGAWA Campus: "Open, Shut Them" Okawa Yuki

An installation of curtains weaving memories from memorable clothes will be created at the NUNAGAWA Campus. A vintage clothing workshop will also be held during the exhibition period.

^5/24SAT ‐ ^7/7MON

2025/5/24 (Sat)-7/7 (Mon) *Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holiday

『Hear the forest singing』Original Drawings Exhibition

Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book Art and Fruits of the Forest held an exhibition of original drawings for 『Hear the forest singing』Tashima Seizo tale of forest regeneration and love!

^4/26SAT ‐ ^7/18FRI

[Date] 4/26 (Sat.) ～ *Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays except national holidays.

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Spring 2025

After overcoming the heavy snowfall of the winter, come and enjoy Echigo-Tsumari in the spring, when the snow melts and the greenery grows! Come and enjoy the charm of Echigo-Tsumari in the spring.

^1/25SAT ‐ ^6/22SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.7 Miyake Kan "Neutral Person Spring"

A series of special exhibitions held at the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET from 2023. Guest curators will select an artist for each exhibition.

Artworks / Artists

5/31-11/9, 2025 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

The○△□Tower and the Red Dragonfly

Tanaka Shintaro

5/17-11/9, 2025 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Relation-Earth/the Big Dipper

Kawaguchi Tatsuo

2025/5/17-11/9 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Ogawa Jiro/ Ogawa Laboratory, Nippon Institute of Technology

4/26-11/9, 2025 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Christian Lapie

5/31-11/9, 2025 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

The Netherlands

John Körmeling

5/31-11/10, 2024 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Sat., Sun. and holidays from 4/26-11/9, 2025

Landscape in the heart - A picture of Akiyamago

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed for year-end and New Year's holidays 26 Dec, 2023-3 Jan, 2024

Explore Echigo-Tsumari

Museum of the one and only site-specific art, built by Hara Hiroshi

The base facility of the "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale". The architecture was designed by Hara Hiroshi + ATLIERΦ, who also designed the Kyoto Station Building. Fifteen permanent works by artists from Japan and abroad are on display throughout the year, with special exhibitions held seasonally and a museum shop. In 2021, the museum reopened with a major relocation of the permanent collection.

Approx. 40 pieces of art on and around the NOHBUTAI. From playful to representative works.

The Matsudai NOHBUTAI is a base facility designed by Dutch architect group MVRDV. Approximately 40 works of art are scattered in a 2-km area of satoyama from Matsudai NOHBUTAI to Matsudai Castle at the top of the mountain, and the entire area is called the "Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum.

Natural science museum where children are fascinated. Withstands 2000 tons of snow in winter.

A 10-minutes drive from Matsudai Station, Kyororo is a natural science museum that provides deep insights into the ecology of the local area and its characteristic natural landscape of terraced rice fields, beech forests, and thatched roof houses.

The House of Light is a work of art created by James Turrell, renowned globally as "an artist of light". At this experimental piece you can experience the artist's world of art, is an architectural structure unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It was conceived as a guest house for meditation, as Turrell found this concept in Junichiro Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows". He came up with the idea of incorporating his work on light into the intimate light of a traditional Japanese-style house.

The Kamigo Junior High School closed down in 2012 but was reopened as a new base for the performing arts. Kamigo Clove Theatre functions as a residency, practice facility, and a performing arts stage and theatre. Artists are invited to reside in this facility and lead a "satoyama" lifestyle and learn through collaboration with local people to influence their performances. Within the building is also a unique restaurant where meals are served by local women while they "perform" a theatrical piece. (Opened irregularly)

Enjoy local home cooking of the four seasons with beautiful pottery at Ubusunano House

This old thatched-roof house is about 100 years old. Enjoy seasonal home-style dishes prepared by local mothers in dishes created by a leading Japanese ceramic artist.

Collaboration of natural beauty and art that changes with the seasons.

One of Echigo-Tsumari's representative sights, the Kiyotsukyo Valley Tunnel has been refurbished by fusing it with art works. A tunnel with a total length of 750m is likened to a submarine cut off from the outside world.
*Advance reservations are required during peak seasons (GW, consecutive holidays, Obon, and autumn foliage season).

Visit

Spring Echigo-Tsumari Course 2025

This is a digest tour showcasing the masterpieces of Echigo-Tsumari. Enjoy art amidst the lush greenery of the satoyama landscape. Lunch is served at the Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo, featuring seasonal ingredients. In May, the menu will be rich with dishes made from fresh mountain vegetables.

Echigo-tsumari Journey + House of Light Accommodation Tour

This tour includes the Echigo-Tsumari course and a stay at the House of Light. On Sat, July 12th, it is for women only, and on Sat, July 19th, it is for men only. Guests can enjoy a light program and a meal exclusively for overnight guests.

Summer Echigo-Tsumari Journey 2025

This is a highlights tour of Echigo-Tsumari’s masterpieces. Enjoy the artworks while taking in the lush summer rice fields. For lunch, savor seasonal dishes made with local ingredients at Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo.

Hidden Akiyamago ［Clove Theatre Lunch Trip］

Join this summer-only course showcasing Akiyamago’s art amid grand nature and living history. Enjoy seasonal dishes at Restaurant Kamigo Clove Theatre, accompanied by a performance from local women.

[From/to Echigo-Yuzawa Station] Snowmelt Echigo-Tsumari cource

This is a highlights tour of the masterpieces of Echigo-Tsumari. Enjoy art alongside the snow and the budding of spring in the satoyama. For lunch, you will taste dishes made with seasonal ingredients at the Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo.

[From/to Echigo-Yuzawa Station] Spring Echigotsumari Course [Ubusuna Lunch Tour]

Spring is the season for wild vegetables. At Ubusuna House, you can enjoy seasonal ingredients, including wild vegetables picked by the local women. You can also view artworks such as the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel along with the fresh greenery.

Support

Matsudai Tanada Bank

Open invitation to those who wish to help maintain terraced rice field in the ageing community. Let’s make Echigo-Tsumari rice in this Koshihikari-rice-growing district.

FC Echigo-Tsumari

Activities by a female football team consisting of members who have moved to the region and taken over rice production in the terraced rice field.

Engaging supporters with management and maintenance of artworks, and rice planting and harvesting. Approximately 3000 people from around the world participate in those activeties.

Stay In Touch

Stay connected with the ETAT official social media to receive the latest news and event information, and the many seasonal faces of Echigo-Tsumari as well as new issue of the ETAT official media, “Art from the Land”.

The ETAT official mail magazine provides information on the most recent information on ETAT, upcoming events and reports on supporters’ activities.