7:48 Depart Tokyo station

Approx 1 hour

Joetsu Shinkansen

9:05 Arrive at Echigo Yuzawa Station and go to car rental shop.

45 min

9:50 The tour starts from the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale base site!

Museum on Echigo-Tsumari

Museum on Echigo-Tsumari is the base facility of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. The museum is home to a collection of gorgeous contemporary artists such as Kohei Nawa and "Eye". After enjoying the artworks, please stop by the museum store and coffee shop "Salon MonET".

art museum base facility

Details

10 min

11:00 Three works of art to enjoy

Kamishinden Community Center

At the Kamishinden Community Center, visitors can enjoy three works: "The Tanaka Fumio Library, Echigo-Tsumari" by Yamamoto Sotaro , "Time of Farm Tools" by Kawaguchi Tatsuo , and "Light of the World, Light of the Intelligence II" by Kang Ailan. The "Time of Farm Tools," in which the exhibition space is painted all yellow, is popular among children as they can touch the displayed farm tools as if they were in stop motion.

Library farm tools

Details

15 min

11:50 Thatched private house pottery restaurant

Enjoy handmade lunch by mothers at Ubusuna House

The restaurant is a 100-year-old thatched thatched house. A new menu has been added to the lunch menu served by local mothers. Please enjoy the opportunity to meet and talk with the mothers.
Reservations required for lunch.

Lunch old private house

Details

35 min

13:25 House with walls removed and structure exposed.

Antony Gormley "Another Singularity"

Six hundred and eighty-two cords are stretched from the walls, floor, and ceiling between the pillars and beams, and the artist's own silhouette emerges in the center where they converge.

vacant house

Details

20min

14:05 The artist's seasonal appearance

Thomas Eller "The human re-entering nature"/　Shiozawa Hironobu "Inagohabitambo"

To be viewed from the premises of the famous Matsuojisoba restaurant is a 4-meter-high human figure with photographs of the artist's own face and limbs burned into it. The human-shaped board and pillar form the shape of the Chinese character for "person," expressing the artist's wish that more people will live in the community. Over time, the ivy will become entangled and return to nature. Large locusts appear in the surrounding rice paddies. It is also a slide on which visitors can play. Across the street is a bus stop that looks like a shack. This is also the work "Milutown Bus Stop

bus inago

Details

10 min

14:35 Enjoy a field museum using the entire satoyama

Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum

A base facility for agriculture and art with a permanent exhibition of new works by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov The building and rooms themselves are works of art. Outside, there are large-scale artworks and fields, allowing visitors to enjoy art while feeling close to nature and local life.

agriculture terraced rice-fields

Details

10 min

Shuttle bus service is available from NOHBUTAI .

15:15 A castle in a satoyama becomes a different space of art

Matsudai Castle

Matsudai Castle" is located at the top of Matsudai Castle Mountain. 3 artists, Esther Stocker, Toyofuku Ryo, and Kurakake Junichi + Nihon University College of Art Sculpture Course, will create works inside the 3-story castle.

Castle

10 min

16:00 Stepping into the empty house, a luxurious playground appears!

Toyofuku Ryo "Golden Playroom"

A luxurious playground. The golden playground, where all parts of daily necessities and industrial goods are painted gold, is where you can actually play, with qilin and phoenixes watching over you as you play, and werewolves and mermaids also appear. This time, the second floor will also be greatly expanded, with a collection of nostalgic game consoles and all sorts of things from around the world, making the space even more mysterious and exciting.

gold game

Details

60 min

17:30 Arrive at Echigo-Yuzawa station, return a rent-a-car, spend time on shopping/dinner before taking a return train to Tokyo

Approx 1 hour

Joetsu Shinkansen

19:52 Arrive at Tokyo station