Nagano Prefectural Culture Hall, Music venue in Wakasato, Japan

The Nagano Prefectural Culture Hall is a performance and event venue in Wakasato, Nagano, Japan, built with reinforced concrete across several levels. The hall has a main fixed-seating auditorium, flexible spaces that can be arranged for different event formats, and conference rooms equipped for interpretation.

The hall opened in 1983; the year before, in 1982, it formed a sister-hall partnership with Vienna's Musikverein, and every September musicians come from Vienna for a seminar and concert. On the advice of the Musikverein it organised the Nagano Philharmonic Orchestra, an amateur ensemble it trains as its affiliated orchestra. Seiji Ozawa used the hall for the opening ceremony of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

The hall's nickname, Hokuto Culture Hall, comes from a naming-rights contract sold in 2009 and renewed through 2027. Since 1982 it has been twinned with Vienna's Musikverein; every September musicians are invited from Vienna for a seminar and concert, and on that advice the amateur Nagano Philharmonic Orchestra was formed and is trained here as the hall's affiliated orchestra.

The hall stands at 1-1-3 Wakasato, Nagano, next to Wakasato Park. From Nagano Station, served by JR East, Shinano Railway and the Nagano Electric Railway line, it is about a 15-minute walk or a 5-minute drive; from the Nagano interchange of the Joshinetsu Expressway it is about 30 minutes by car.

The main hall's curtain uses a painting by Keisuke Koyama titled "Beni Asama"; the medium hall's curtain reproduces "Seiei" by Kaii Higashiyama. In the lobby, look for the stained-glass work "Shinshu" and Takashi Shimizu's bronze "Hiyaku". The medium hall foyer holds the lacquer painting "Kogen", the main hall foyer the wood carving "Shinshu Sanka".