Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

11/19, ETAT 2024 Passport with Tanaka Min

11/19, ETAT 2024 Passport with Tanaka Min "Ryōkan in the Snow" (voucher) & Tour on sale!

Photo Ishihara Rin

The Passport can be purchased online or from several locations across the region.

11/19, ETAT 2024 Passport with Tanaka Min "Ryōkan in the Snow" (voucher) on sale!

July 13 - November 10, 2024

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024

From November 19, 2023

Official winter 2024 tours are now on sale!

Popular "Satoyama buffet" on weekends and holidays.

Open in winter! Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo

Take advantage of the model course.

Important Notice

Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel / Notice of Change in Operation Due to Maintenance Work

2023/11/25 EAT＆STAY

Katakuri House, Akiyamago, an unexplored region with heavy snowfall, open only in midwinter

2023/11/23 ETAT2024

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024: the first batch of participate Artists

2023/11/18 Tours

Tanaka Min's "Ryōkan in the Snow" + Yukimi Gozen Tour sales start on 11/19!

2023/11/5 Released artworks

Good news for those who missed it! Artworks you can visit after 14 Nov

2023/10/30 ETAT2024

11/19, ETAT 2024 Passport with Tanaka Min "Ryōkan in the Snow" (voucher) on sale!

About Echigo-Tsumari

Learn about Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Events

^2/23FRI ‐ ^2/23FRI

Tanaka Min "Ryōkan in the Snow"

Tanaka Min's snow performance "Ryōkan in the Snow" will be held this winter prior to the "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024" (Dates: 2024/7/13-11/10) to be held from next July.

^1/13SAT ‐ ^3/10SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.4 Tanaka Ai "Reverse String"

As a new initiative, MonET will hold a series of special exhibitions. 2023 will feature four exhibitions with four guest curators.

^11/18SAT ‐ ^12/24SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.3 Takezaki Kazuyuki + Nishimura Yu "The Sequel: Twin Boat Songs - Verdigris Vessel"

As a new initiative, MonET will hold a series of special exhibitions. 2023 will feature four exhibitions with four guest curators.

^10/21SAT ‐ ^3/15FRI

Kyororo x TOPPAKU collaborative exhibition "Snow Rich Tokamachi that curators and researchers can't help but want to introduce".

This is a collaborative mini exhibition in which curators and researchers from Kyororo and Tokamachi City Museum introduce, mainly through photo panels, the things and things they recommend from their own perspectives about the nature and culture of the Japanese Heritage "Ultimate Tokamachi, Snow Country.

Artworks / Artists

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

THE BIRTH OF THE SPRING

José de Guimarães

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

The human re-entering nature

Year round / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Set North for Japan (74°33’2”）

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Project of Making a View with Mudwall in Matsudai Town

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

Former Soviet Union／USA

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

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.　*New Year's holidays 26 Dec, 2023-3 Jan, 2024.

NOHBUTAI Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai

The Netherlands

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

To Nirvana and Back

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Explore Echigo-Tsumari

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.

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.

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.

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

Model 2024 winter one-day tour by train

A relaxing one-day trip by train to Echigo-Tsumari in the snow. Enjoy the taste of winter and art using snow.
*Please note that trains may be delayed or cancelled due to snow conditions.

Satoyama Buffet & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour

This one-day tour starts and ends at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, and you can enjoy the snowy landscape and art of Echigo-Tsumari. Lunch is Satoyama buffet with winter ingredients.
Artworks:Tunnel of Light (Kiyotsu Gorge Tunne)l, Last Class, Matsudai NOHBUTAI, Museum on Echigo-Tsumari MonET.
*There is a possibility that the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stopover at other artworks.

Tanaka Min "Ryōkan in the Snow" & Yukimi Gozen one-day tour

A special one-day tour featuring Min Tanaka "Ryōkan in the Snow" and Yukimi Gozen.
In addition to the performance event, the tour will also visit a number of winter artworks. Lunch is Yukimi Gozen with a visit to a village in Echigo-Tsumari, where you can experience traditional foods and the hospitality of the local people.
*The order of stops and the time of disbanding at Echigo-Yuzawa Station will differ depending on the site of the Yukimi Gozen. Please check the itinerary that will be sent to you before the tour.

[2 Day/1 Night] Min Tanaka "Ryōkan in the Snow" & Overnight to Katakuri House

A special two-day tour featuring Min Tanaka "Ryōkan in the Snow", Yukimi Gozen (snow viewing dinner), and Katakuri House in winter. You can fully experience the winter in Echigo-Tsumari, one of the heaviest snowfall areas in Japan. Lunch on the second day will be a Yukimi Gozen, where you can experience traditional preserved foods and the hospitality of the village.

Enjoy Yukimi Gozen tour

This one-day tour starts and ends at Echigo Yuzawa Station, where you can enjoy a hearty meal of Yukimi Gozen prepared by the village mothers. You can also enjoy winter art works.
Artworks:Tunnel of Light (Kiyotsu Gorge Tunne)l, Last Class, Matsudai NOHBUTAI, Museum on Echigo-Tsumari MonET.
*There is a possibility that the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stopover at other artworks.
*The order of stops and the time of disbanding at Echigo-Yuzawa Station will differ depending on the site of the Yukimi Gozen. Please check the itinerary that will be sent to you before the tour.

Echigo-Tsumari Study Tour : Art & Civil Engineering with Kitagawa Fram

The tour takes you on a journey with Kitagawa Fram, General Director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, through the artworks and the hydroelectric power generation facilities of the Shinano River that flows through Niigata Prefecture.
*Guide for this tour is only in Japanese

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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