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!

Important Notice

Open Call for Proposals - 10th edition of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (Entries Open: Nov. 4)【updated on October 17, 2025】

2025/9/18 Events

Setouchi Asia Forum 2025: October 3 (Fri) & 5 (Sun)

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!

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Events

^9/27SAT ‐ ^11/30SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.8
Ohno Ayako ”In Our Basket, with You”

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

^9/27SAT ‐ ^12/1MON

Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo New Rice Fair 2025

The menu features around 20 different dishes, mainly made with newly harvested rice from the rice terraces right in front of the restaurant, as well as side dishes and soups that enhance the flavor of the rice. **Please note that the prices during the New Rice Buffet period will be different from the regular buffet.

^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

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed for the New Year holidays: 2025/12/23(Tue)–2026/1/1(Thu)

Voice from afar

Nakatani Michiko

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

Growing Tree in Tsumari

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

Amamizukoshi Tower

Yamamoto Takeshi

Open all year / Closed on Tue (-11/30), Tue & Wed (12/1-2026/3/8) *Closed for the year-end and New Year holidays: 12/26 (Fri) – 2026/1/1 (Thu)

Water Under Foot (200㎥)

Endo Toshikatsu

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

Restaurant Gives Orders

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

The○△□Tower and the Red Dragonfly

Tanaka Shintaro

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays *Closed for the New Year holidays: 2025/12/23(Tue)–2026/1/1(Thu)

Former Soviet Union／USA

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

4/26-11/24, 2025 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

The Rice Fields

Former Soviet Union／USA

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

HIKARIORI －Weaving the Lights

Takahashi Kyota

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

Autumn Echigo-Tsumari Journey [Ubusuna Lunch Trip]

Highlights tour of Tsumari’s masterpieces. Enjoy art while gazing at swaying rice stalks in the autumn countryside. Lunch at Ubusuna House with flavorful dishes made by local mothers.

Autumn Echigo-Tsumari Journey 2025

Highlights tour of Tsumari’s masterpieces. Enjoy art while gazing at swaying rice stalks in the autumn countryside. Lunch at Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo to savor seasonal dishes made with local ingredients.

JIKU #013 HOKUHOKU-LINE Journey [Ubusuna Lunch Trip]

A tour offered on three dates only, featuring the tunnel-station-and-train installation by Panoramatiks/Saito Seiichi. You’ll visit signature Echigo-Tsumari works, including Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel. Lunch is at Ubusuna House, where local mothers serve wholesome, home-cooked dishes.

【1/24、31、2/7、15、21】Winter Echigo-Tsumari Journey [Yukimi-Gozen Lunch Trip] ①

Enjoy the beauty of Echigo-Tsumari’s graceful yet powerful winter and its exclusive seasonal artworks. Savor Yukimi Gozen, a traditional snow-country meal filled with local wisdom and culture, served with warm hospitality.
【Lunch: Tobu, Kamishinden, Higashi shimogumi, Motomachi, Urada】
*The Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel may be closed depending on snow conditions. If so, the itinerary will be adjusted to visit other artworks instead.
*The order of visits to museums and facilities may vary depending on the tour date.

【2/14、28】Winter Echigo-Tsumari Journey [Yukimi-Gozen Lunch Trip] ②

Enjoy the beauty of Echigo-Tsumari’s graceful yet powerful winter and its exclusive seasonal artworks. Savor Yukimi Gozen, a traditional snow-country meal filled with local wisdom and culture, served with warm hospitality.
【Lunch: Matsudai, Murono】 *The Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel may be closed depending on snow conditions. If so, the itinerary will be adjusted to visit other artworks instead.
*The order of visits to museums and facilities may vary depending on the tour date.

【3/1、7】Winter Echigo-Tsumari Journey [Yukimi-Gozen Lunch Trip] ③

Enjoy the beauty of Echigo-Tsumari’s graceful yet powerful winter and its exclusive seasonal artworks. Savor Yukimi Gozen, a traditional snow-country meal filled with local wisdom and culture, served with warm hospitality.
【Lunch: Aramachi-Shinden, Kamigo】 *The Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel may be closed depending on snow conditions. If so, the itinerary will be adjusted to visit other artworks instead.
*The order of visits to museums and facilities may vary depending on the tour date.

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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