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Information on artworks that can be viewed after Nov 11

Popular "Satoyama buffet" Buffet served daily on weekdays(until 3/31) Open in winter! Echigo-Matsudai Satoyama Shokudo

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2024/11/20 Exhibition Jan 25 - Mar 9 "Echigo - Tsumari winter 2025"

2024/11/17 Tours 【Jan 11-13】Official Koshogatsu Tour is now available!

2024/11/14 Award The World Bank has published a report on Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale as a model of local revitalization through art.

2024/11/10 ETAT2024 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 202 Closing!

2024/10/24 Released artworks Information on artworks that can be viewed after Nov 11

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FEATURED 1/25SAT 3/9SUN [Date] 1/25 (Sat.) - 3/9 (Sun.) *Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays except national holidays. Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Winter 2025 Enjoy Echigo-Tsumari in winter with artwork and activities that take advantage of the charm of snow! Special Exhibition and mini-events are held according to the characteristics of the facilities and artworks. We also recommend the official tour where you will be welcomed with hospitality by mothers and enjoy local cuisine unique to this area of heavy snowfall.

FEATURED 11/23SAT 1/13MON Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.6 Mitsuoka Koichi "there is a lot of danger around here" A series of special exhibitions held at the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET from 2023. Guest curators will select an artist for each exhibition.

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Art from the Land Artwork / Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Day Art Field Day is a Place of Hospitality

Articles

Artwork / MVRDV Interview with Jacob van Rijs, MVRDV On the 21st anniversary of NOHBUTAI Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Centre, Matsudai

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑩(Written on 20 Oct)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑨(Written on 31 Aug)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑧(Written on 10 Aug)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑦(Written on 4 Aug)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑥(Written on 20 June)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ⑤(Written on 9 May)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ④(Written on 3 May)

Feature / Director's Column This and that about ETAT 2022 ③(Written on 27 April)

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Artworks / Artists

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays The○△□Tower and the Red Dragonfly

Japan Tanaka Shintaro

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays Boys with Red Loincloth Returned

Japan Sekine Tetsuo

Open all year(Dec-Mar: Closed on certain days) House of Light

USA James Turrell

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays THE BIRTH OF THE SPRING

Portugal José de Guimarães

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays The black symbol

Spain Santiago Sierra

Open all year round (2024/4/27-11/25: closed Tue & Wed except holidays, 11/30-2025/3/31: weekends & holidays only) The Last Class

France

Christian Boltanski+Jean Kalman others

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays The Longest River

Nigeria Olu Oguibe

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays Project of Making a View with Mudwall in Matsudai Town

Japan Muraki Kaoru

Open all year / Closed on Tue & Wed except holidays The human re-entering nature

Germany Thomas Eller

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Explore Echigo-Tsumari

Museum 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.

Museum 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.

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.

Stay 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.

Museum 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)

Eat 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 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).

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Echigo-Tsumari in the snow, a relaxing train tour A train trip to Echigo-Tsumari, completely covered with snow. Enjoy the taste of winter and art in a relaxing one-day trip.

[Tokamachi & Kawanishi area] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people. *There is a possibility that the Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama&Mtsudai area] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people. *There is a possibility that the Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama area-1] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people. *There is a possibility that the Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Matsunoyama area-2] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people. *There is a possibility that the Kiyotsukyo Gorge Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

[Tsunan area] Yukimi gozen & Echigo-Tsumari Winter Tour Enjoy the heavy and beautiful snowfall of Echigo-Tsumari and the winter-only artworks on this bus tour. For lunch, enjoy Echigo-Tsumari dishes filled with the wisdom and culture of the snow country and the hospitality of the local people. *There is a possibility that the Kiyotsukyo Tunnel will be closed due to heavy snowfall. In that case, we will make a stop at another site.

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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.

Kohebi 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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