Hello everyone, my name is Peter Chai (Kai Shibata), and I am a member of the Student Advisors for Waseda Culture who help with the creation and spreading of Waseda culture and prepare events with office staff in the Waseda Cultural Affairs Division that encourage participants to discover and rediscover the charms of Waseda’s cultural institutions!
Do you know how many cultural institutions there are in Waseda and what they are? There are currently six cultural institutions in Waseda, which are the Waseda University History Museum, the Aizu Museum, the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum (Enpaku), the Waseda Sports Museum, the Honjo-Waseda No Mori Museum, and the Waseda International House of Literature (The Haruki Murakami Library). If you want to know more about these cultural institutions and Waseda’s culture and history, please come and join Waseda Museum Week 2025!
Come and Join “Waseda University Museum Week 2025”!
Museum Week 2025 will be held from 12 May to 23 May 2025, and it includes a number of events and activities for the participants to have fun and learn about Waseda’s cultural institutions at the same time. We warmly welcome international students and visitors to participate and enjoy the music, dance performances and the stamp rally activities! In this article, I am happy to introduce the basic information of some of the fun activities in English, including the Okuma Live, Museum Live, Museum Concerts, Waseda Museum Stamp Rally, and Wasemeshi Stamp Rally. Please take note of their times and places!
Okuma LIVE
At the Museum Week Okuma Live, you can enjoy the dance performances from eight circles and groups at Waseda. The dance performances include various genres such as cheerleading, K-Pop, Jazz, Hawaiian, and the Japanese Yosakoi.
Date and Time: 12 May 2025 (Mon), 17:30 ~ 19:00 pm
Place: Okuma Auditorium
Participating groups: FALCONS, MYNX, Oasis, Bankaraizm, Tokyo Hanabi, Waseda Hula Girls, Twinkle, SARAHbelly
Museum LIVE
At the Museum Live, you can enjoy the stage performances of four cirlces at Waseda during lunchtime, and the performances include street dance, the Japanese Yosakoi, calligraphy, and so on.
Date and Time: 16 May 2025 (Mon), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: In front of the Aizu Museum
Participating circles: Getappers, Odori Samurai, Brilliant Pinks, Calligraphy Performance Circle Sazanami
Museum Concerts
At the Museum Concerts, you can enjoy music performances of various genres and with different instruments from five circles and groups at Waseda, and the performances include orchestra, jazz, celtic music, acappella, and so on. I believe that the power in music is that it conveys common emotions of humankind, transcends language barriers, and brings communities together.
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum (Enpaku)
Date and Time: 14 May 2025 (Wed), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: In front of Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Circle: Waseda Modern Jazz Group
Note that if it rains, the performance will be postponed a week later to 21 May 2025 (Wed), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Waseda University History Museum
Date and Time: 15 May 2025 (Thu), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: Café Terrace at the first floor in the History Museum
Circle: Street Corner Symphony
Honjo-Waseda No Mori Museum
Date and Time: 17 May 2025 (Sat), 16:00 ~ 16:30 pm
Place: Honjo-Waseda No Mori Museum (Building No. 93, Honjo Campus)
Circle: Waseda Celtic Music Group
Aizu Museum
Date and Time: 22 May 2025 (Thu), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: Hall at the first floor in the Aizu Museum (Building No. 2, Waseda Campus)
Group: Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
Waseda International House of Literature
Date and Time: 22 May 2025 (Thu), 16:30 ~ 17:00 pm
Place: B1 at the Waseda International House of Literature (Building No. 4, Waseda Campus)
Circle: Waseda New Orleans Jazz Club
Waseda-Meiji Cheerleading Performance
At the Waseda-Meiji Cheerleading Performance, you can enjoy a joint performance by Waseda and Meiji Cheerleading Clubs during lunchtime as they convey the spirit of never giving up.
Date and Time: 13 May 2025 (Thu), 12:25 ~ 13:05 pm
Place: In front of the Aizu Museum
Groups: Waseda Cheerleading Club, Meiji Cheerleaing Club
Note that if it rains, the show will be canceled.
Museum Stamp Rally
For the Museum Stamp Rally activity, the participants first need to obtain a stamp card, and then they need to find stamps which are placed in five different locations around Waseda. After stamping the card with each of the stamps from each of the location, the resulting pictuire is a colored illustration of Okuma Auditorium on the stamp card.
Date and Time: 12 May 2025 (Mon) ~ 23 May 2025 (Fri)
Places:
1.Waseda Sports Museum (3rd Floor, Waseda Arena)
2.125th Anniversary Room (10th Floor, Okuma Tower, Building No. 26)
3.Aizu Museum
4.The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, or Enpaku (Building No. 5)
5.Waseda University History Museum (Building No. 1)
Note that the numbers represent the recommended route, but you can go to these places and stamp in any order.
Eligibility: Anyone, free of charge, and no reservation is required.
Wasemeshi Stamp Rally
In the Wasemeshi Stamp Rally activity, the participants are encouraged to collect stamps with a stamp card from visiting the 86 designated restaurants around Waseda Campus as below.
You can get the stamp card participating restaurants or at the Waseda University History Museum (Building No. 1), the Aizu Museum (Building No. 2), the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum or Enpaku (Building No. 5), and the Waseda Sports Museum (3rd Floor, Waseda Campus Arena).
You can check the 86 participating restaurants and their locations in the image and map below. You can only get one stamp from one restaurant, and the 5 stamps you collect need to be from 5 different restaurants. If you collect five stamps on your stamp card, you will be entered into a drawing to win an original pink Museum Week T-shirt.
To receive the T-shirt, you need to complete the following steps.
1. Please input your name, student ID number(if you are enrolled at Waseda University) and email address in the online application form from the following red link.
2. Please fill out your information on the stamp card and put it in the designated box at the Waseda University History Museum or the Waseda Sports Museum.
Note that the period you can fill out the online application form and put the stamp card in the designated box is 7 May 2025 (Mon) ~ 26 May 2025 (Mon) 5:00 pm. Please complete these two steps before the deadline.
Please note the following points about receiving the T-shirt.
1. If there are too many applicants for the T-Shirt, there may be a lottery to decide who can get the T-shirt.
2. The T-shirt has four sizes S, M, L, and XL. You are able to choose a size, but there is a possibility that your desired size is out of stock.
3. An email will be sent to those eligible to get the T-shirt around June 2025.
4. It is not possible to receive the T-shirt by post. Please show your email and get the T-shirt at the Waseda University History Museum (Building No. 1). For more details, please wait for the email.
Date and Time: 7 May 2025 (Mon) ~ 25 May 2025 (Sun)
Places: The 86 Participating Restaurants
Eligibility: Anyone, and free of charge
Peter Chai (Kai Shibata)
Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Political Science
