Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Year-round Program;

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Year-round Program; "Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023" (Apr 29- Nov 5)

Photo Ishizuka Gentaro

Year-round program

"Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023" will be held from April 29 (Sat)!

Reservations are now being accepted for the 2023 Official Tour!

Lunch information with reservations available.

New menu items & popular menu items are back!

The 2023 contract is being paid!

Take advantage of the model course.

Artist merchandise on sale!

2023/5/28 Tours

”Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF”　is now being accepted.

2023/5/28 Other

Measures to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection

Also the long-awaited "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022" archives ! Introducing New Spring Goods!

2023/5/4 EAT＆STAY

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023"Gourmet Information

2023/4/30 Released artworks

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023" has finally started! Newly developed works and information on special exhibitions

About Echigo-Tsumari

Learn about Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Events

^4/29SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023（April 29-November 5）

In Echigo-Tsumari, the people who live there cultivate their fields from spring to fall, and in winter they have a unique way of life born from the heavy snowfall. On that land, ｍany artworks located on. You can enjoy a journey through artworks deeply connected to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field.

^3/18SAT ‐ ^7/9SUN

Kyororo's special exhibition: Tateno Hiroshi Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition "Born and Died -The Story of Life-"

The 23 original illustrations of picture book by picture book artist Tateno Hiroshi will introduce the drama of life and death of living creatures in satoyama and the diverse connections among them, deepening visitors' understanding of satoyama biodiversity.

^5/1MON ‐ ^5/29MON

"Niigata Welcome Campaign! ￥5,000 OFF"【Katakuri House】New plan for a limited time: Wild vegetable dishes and a walk in fresh greenery. 2 meals per night + rice ball plan

Inn renovated from a former elementary school in the unexplored Akiyamago area Special plan for now only (until June) to experience wild vegetables and fresh greenery with all five senses

^4/29SAT ‐ ^7/2SUN

Museum of Picture Book Art Spring Exhibition; "Nuts sing, Art dances"

Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book holds the spring exhibition "Nuts sing, Art dances" featuring nuts!

^4/29SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Isobe Yukihisa Memorial: Echigo-Tsumari Kiyotsu SoKo Museum of Art［SoKo］: Special Exhibition

A rare special exhibition featuring paintings by ETAT participating artists will be held in the school building. The exhibition will be renewed to trace the path of Isobe Yukihisa, who has dynamically developed works that visualize the relationship between the people of Echigo-Tsumari and nature from the first exhibition to the 8th in 2022, and to simultaneously show documents of the three projects in 2022.

Artworks / Artists

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Metamorphosis : The Memory that Dwells in ‘Place’

Kasahara Yukiko／Miyamori Haruna

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Ting-King-Ping in Kyororo—Sound Source

Throughout the year

Tunnel of Light

Ma Yansong / MAD Architects

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science “Kyororo”

Tezuka Takaharu + Tezuka Yui

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Hashimoto Norihisa + scope

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Super high-resolution human-size photographs—life-size

Hashimoto Norihisa + scope

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Ground, Water, Cosmos

Explore Echigo-Tsumari

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

As part of the 2018 program, MAD Architects was invited to revitalize the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel – a historic, 750-meter passageway that cuts through distinctive rock formations, offering panoramic views over one of Japan’s three great chasms. Drawing on the ‘five elements’ of nature (wood, earth, metal, fire, water), MAD’s scheme transforms points along the historic tunnel through the realization of several architectural spaces and artistic atmospheres.

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.

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 restaurant itself is art. Satoyama buffet is popular among locals.

At the Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo, we invite you to enjoy fresh vegetables, "sansai" (wild mountain plants), and locally-cultivated rice while overlooking terraced rice field landscapes. The restaurant serves a unique menu inspired by local traditional recipes passed down over generations - but with a modern twist.

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 artworks are scattered inside and outside the facility.

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.

Visit

A course to visit photogenic artworks (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays)

The "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2023," an annual program from spring to fall, starts on April 29. A driving course around the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale artworks that makes you want to take pictures.

Tombi-Kakku route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page. This is a standard course that tours Tokamachi, Kawanishi, and Nakasato areas. Departing from Echigo Yuzawa Station, we will first visit Kiyotsukyo, one of the most beautiful valleys in Japan. While viewing artworks along the Shinano River, we head to the Tokamachi area, visiting abandoned school works and base facilities representing the area. Visitors enjoy the scenery of the satoyama, which shows different expressions in each season.

*The tour is held on 7/22, with a different stopover at "House of Light" because it is not open for tours on that day. There is no change in the arrival and departure times. Alternate stops: POTEMKIN, The placenta ― Misyaguchi

Moriaogaeru-Petapeta route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page.
Standard tour of Matsudai and Matsunoyama area. You'll take a leisurely walk around the artworks along the roads in the Joyama area, from Matsudai Castle to NOHBUTAI. After lunch, you visit the abandoned school artworks, where you can feel the progress of ETAT since 2000 and the local community with all five senses. (*In the Joyama area, you will walk on a paved mountain path (15 minutes uphill, 50 minutes downhill). *Please bring rain gear in case of rain.)

FC Echigo-Tsumari Home Game Spectating Tour

Let's watch FC Echigo-Tsumari's home games on site!　FC Senior Director Sakaguchi Hiroaki, who knows FC Echigo-Tsumari well, take you to the "Nunagawa Campus" where players usually practice and the "Hoshitoge Terraced Rice Field" where they cultivate. There are many tour-exclusive special offers, such as a group photo with the players after the game. Souvenirs include 1kg of "Daichi no Kome" carefully grown by the players.

Experience ”Tanada Bank” 2-day tour to enjoy rice planting and ETAT

The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale continues the "Matsudai Tanada Bank," a project to preserve terraced rice paddies on abandoned farmland. On the second day, we will tour the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale artworks on foot and by bus with a guide. Anyone who would like to try farming, and anyone who loves art and nature is welcome to join us. Let's enjoy Echigo-Tsumari while working up a sweat together.

Kohebi-Kunekune route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page.
From outdoor artworks to vacant house artworks and art museums, this tour takes you around Echigo-Tsumari in a wide range. Visitors can enjoy the nature of the satoyama in summer, including the beautiful forests with their vivid green colors.

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

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