NAKACHO House, an activity hub for Art Access Adachi: Downtown Senju – Connecting through Sound Art, is a Japanese-style house in Senju Nakacho area of Adachi City.
It is an elegant pre-war house with lush green garden.
This house is a venue for various exhibitions, screening and project meetings.

Access
NAKACHO House (29-1 Senju Nakacho, Adachi-ku, Tokyo)
Abut 10 minutes walk from Kitasenju Station (West exit)

Opening hours
Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and public holidays
10:00 – 17:00
Admission free
*Open: September 29 – October 15 (Closed at year end and the New Year holidays)
*Opening hours may be subject to change on stormy day. Please see the latest information on the official Facebook page of NAKACHO House before visiting.

In contemporary artist Shinji Ohmaki’s “Memorial Rebirth,” familiar places are transformed by countless soap bubbles in an art performance that awakens memories and creates new ones. The event has been held in a variety of locations nationwide and overseas, but since 2011 it has taken place in Senju in various neighborhood shopping districts, elementary schools and fish markets. The project has gone from district to district like a relay baton, expanding its circle of participants and creating diverse connections.

The Senju Pun-Filled Music Festival centering around musician Makoto Nomura is a project in which organizers create music together with local residents. Neighborhood people get together on an informal footing to swap puns, on the basis of which they go on to create music. Puns are a way of enjoying the power that comes from connecting different words; and pun-filled music is an effort to develop a new method of composition by harnessing this power.

This art project offers events and activities based on cultural and social interaction with non-Japanese residents. In addition to introducing the lifestyles and cultural backgrounds of newcomers in the community, the project explores the subsequent changes to various aspects of daily life in terms of adaptation, preservation and integration; an exploration which generates a forum for exhibition and exchange.
Planning and supervision: Shigeaki Iwai (Artist/Director, Immigration Museum TOKYO)

Stories and memories of the ordinary townspeople of Senju, events and episodes connected to the landscape and the fabric of human relationships unique to the Senju neighborhood, the music at the roots and the heart of Senju and more are all gathered and edited under this project, not just in words but in music. With the streets of Senju as editorial base/recording studio, project organizers relay and archive what they record.

This is an artist-in-residence project open to young/emerging artists, and designed to strengthen communication with the places and people unique to Senju. This year, three individual/group invitees will work out of NAKACHO House: artist Mariko Tomomasa, musical unit Hyogen and performance project Ima theater.