Venue map (coming soon)
Chatan Town Museum
The main venue, imagined as the home port of an ancient trade route. Hosts the indoor and outdoor markets, exhibitions and the main stage.
Venue
Enjoy the indoor market, the outdoor market and the surrounding area as one.
Main Venue
Supported by
The festival venue is the Chatan Town Museum. The following three locations support the festival by joining a walk around Chatan town.
Supporting location
Book Parlor Shinabi Shoka
ブックパーラー 砂辺書架
44 Sunabe, Chatan
Book Parlor Shinabi Shoka is a secondhand bookshop in a converted school bus in Sunabe, Chatan. Our hometown of Chatan is best known as a "town of new entertainment," but it has in fact been a crossroads of people and culture ever since the Jomon period. We hope the Nuchinuwa Jomon Festival will be a chance for visitors to feel that long history of human activity and exchange. During the festival, Shinabi Shoka is planning workshops where you can get close to nature through shells and plants, as well as a barter market. Details will be posted on Shinabi Shoka's Instagram.
Supporting location
Kokoro no Mori (Nousuien Niji)
こころの森（農水苑 虹）
520-1 Kuwae, Chatan
Kokoro no Mori ("Forest of the Heart") lies in the middle of Chatan town, yet is wrapped in the green of the trees. Through honeybee classes, markets and a community children's cafeteria, it has grown into a place that connects food, nature, the community and handcraft. Chatan is a land where people lived for a long time during the Jomon period. They are said to have gathered food from nature, touched the earth, built fires, made tools with their own hands, and lived within ties between people. Touching nature, moving your own hands, feeling the link between eating and life, gathering around a fire to talk with one another: the way of life of the Jomon people, who lived mainly by hunting and gathering, may hold hints for rediscovering what we today are beginning to forget. At Kokoro no Mori, we are planning "Nuchinuwa Jomon Pottery Making," where participants face earth and fire to make vessels, along with a beekeeping class, pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, a film screening, a talk event and a dyeing workshop. We hope to create a place where you can stand in the forest and feel nature, food and life (nuchi). Details will be shared on the Instagram of Nousuien Niji.
American Village
Connects the seaside district with the museum as part of a walk around town.
Venue Map
Venue map and walking routes (in preparation)
* A floor plan of the museum, the outdoor layout and the route to American Village will be posted here.