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This tour proposes a new guided Satoyama trip with art at the forefront.The biggest highlight is an art tour led by a private guide who knows everything about “Echigo-Tsumari Art Field”. You will encounter popular contemporary and local art in the stunning Satoyama landscape. In addition, you will taste the bounty of the Satoyama area, experience the luxury of being at one with nature, and interact with the local people through various activities to complete your one-of-a-kind trip.

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.

The "Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023," a year-round program from spring to fall, starts on April 29.　It's a fun way for parents and children to see and play even in unstable weather! We will introduce a tour of facilities and artworks for parents and children to enjoy "seeing" and "playing" together.

Although the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022 has come to a close, we would like to introduce a tour of facilities and artworks that can still be viewed today.