Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

7/19（Sat）～

”Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025” Start！

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025 Common Ticket

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!

2025/7/6 Events

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

2025/6/28 goods

Echigo-Tsumari Summer T-shirt Fair

2025/6/5 Released artworks

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025 Event confirmed!

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

2025/3/10 EAT＆STAY

【Katakuri House】Introducing 3 tour courses around Akiyamago

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Events

^9/7SUN ‐ ^9/7SUN

September 7, 2025 (Sun) 14:00 (Doors open13:30 )

Echigo-Tsumari Kapukapu Ensemble 2025

"Echigo-Tsumari KapuKapu Ensemble," in which local residents and professional musicians play farm instruments, will continue to bring their diverse sounds to the Kamigo Clove Theatre in 2025. Please enjoy the upgraded stage from last year. New songs will also be performed.

^8/10SUN ‐ ^8/10SUN

Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum Event

Imamura Fumi, “Making specimens in the eye courtyard〜Plant collection of flowers in Satoyama〜”

Join artist Fumi Imamura, who draws a variety of flowers, for a workshop to create plant specimens in a slightly different way.

^7/20SUN ‐ ^9/15MON

【Matsudai NOHBUTAI】Satoyama BBQ & Nagashi Somen

Enjoy BBQ freshly picked summer vegetables and Echigo-Tsumari delicacy, Tsumari Pork!

^7/19SAT ‐ ^11/9SUN

2025 Hong Kong House exhibition

【Hong Kong House 2025 Special Exhibition】“The Whispers of Stone”, Chris Cheung (h0nh1m) and Sim Shum Kwan Yi

A sound installation featuring a suikinkutsu and a shishi odoshi (lion dance) will be unveiled at the 2025 Hong Kong House exhibition.

^7/19SAT ‐ ^11/24MON

July 19, 2025 - November 24, 2025 *Closed on Tue and Wed except holidays (open on 8/12, 13)

Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book Art Exhibition: Chaos

In a world marked by conflict, pandemics, and environmental destruction—where “chaos” seems to define our times—Tashima Seizo has continued creating while questioning what role artists can play. For this special exhibition, he is joined by three trusted artists—Nakazato Eros, Fujita Yasumasa, and Ishigamori Yoshiyuki (Kumaikire)—each presenting their own vision of the world of Chaos.

^7/19SAT ‐ ^11/9SUN

[Date] 7/19 (Sat.) - 11/9 (Sun.), 2025 *Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays.

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025

The "Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025" program will be held from July 19! This year's Common Ticket includes a special offer that eliminates the need for advance reservations for the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel 《Tunnel of Light》.

^7/19SAT ‐ ^11/9SUN

2025/7/19 (Sat.) - 11/9 (Sun.) Closed on Tue. and Wed. except national holidays.

Museum on Echigo-Tsumari, MonET special exhibition"The answer is blowin' in the wind"

In the summer of 2025, a special exhibition directed by BankART1929 will be held in the corridor of MonET. Centered around the courtyard pond, the space will be transformed into a harmonious orchestra-like environment through artworks that produce sound and others that sway gently in the wind. Workshops by participating artists are also planned.

Artworks / Artists

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

Field Museum Embraced by the Earth

Fieldoffice Architects + Ryuki Taguma

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

Blooming Spiral

Jean-François Brun

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

Restaurant Gives Orders

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

Scarecrow Project

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

Nakasato Scarecrow Garden

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

Between the Earth and the Sky

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

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

To Nirvana and Back

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

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.

Hidden Tokamachi & Kawanishi [Ubusuna Lunch Trip]

Explore Tsumari’s farthest corners, featuring summer-only school art installations. Enjoy a hearty lunch at Ubusuna House, where local mothers serve deeply flavorful dishes.

[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.

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.

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