Travel Information

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.

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 Matsudai Nohbutai. After lunch, you visit the abandoned school artworks in Matsudai and Matsunoyama area, where you can feel the progress of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 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 such as an umbrella or rain wear in case of rain.

Seiichi Saito/Panoramatics' projects in various locations open to a limited time at Misashima Station, a tunnel station that is unique in Japan. Visitorsl experience the light and echoing sound that penetrate the straight tunnel and tour the early works of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. This course starts and ends at Echigo Yuzawa Station as well as Muikamachi Station.