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Matsuo Jinja
A thatched hall standing deep in the mountains, an Important Cultural Property.
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NiigataShrines & Temples
NiigataFestivalsTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
Artworks scattered through the hill villages. Terraced fields and empty houses are the stage.
NiigataNature & SceneryTokamachi
Kiyotsu Gorge
One of the three great gorges of Japan. Columnar jointing reflects in the water mirror inside the tunnel.
NiigataNature & SceneryTokamachi
Hoshitoge Rice Terraces
Two hundred paddies catching the morning sun. Certified as a Tsunagu Terraced Rice Fields Heritage site.
NiigataArchitecture
NiigataMuseumsTokamachi
Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Matsudai Nohbutai
A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel
An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Tokamachi Kimono
From ramie to silk kasuri and yuzen; the snow's humidity is what makes the dyeing work.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Terraces of Matsunoyama
Contoured rice terraces covering a heavy-snow hillside - the ground on which the art festival places its works.