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 2026!
Come and Join “Waseda University Museum Week 2026”!
Museum Week 2026 will be held from 11 May to 22 May 2026, 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 seven circles and groups at Waseda. The dance performances include various genres such as cheerleading, K-Pop, Jazz,and the Japanese Yosakoi.
Date and Time: 18 May 2026 (Mon), 17:30 ~ 19:00 pm
Place: Okuma Auditorium
Participating groups: MYNX, Oasis, Bankaraizm, Tokyo Hanabi, Brilliant Pinks, 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, Hawaiian dance, calligraphy, and so on.
Date and Time: 15 May 2026 (Fri), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: In front of the Aizu Museum
Participating circles: Getappers, Odori Samurai, Waseda Hula Girls, Calligraphy Performance Circle Sazanami
Museum Concerts
At the Museum Concerts, you can enjoy music performances of various genres and with different instruments from three circles and groups at Waseda, and the performances include orchestra, musical 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.
Honjo-Waseda No Mori Museum
Date and Time: 16 May 2026 (Sat), 15:30 ~ 16:00 pm
Place: Honjo-Waseda No Mori Museum (Building No. 93, Honjo Campus)
Circle: Waseda Mandlin Circle
Waseda International House of Literature
Date and Time: 20 May 2026 (Wed), 12:30 ~ 13:00 pm
Place: B1 at the Waseda International House of Literature (Building No. 4, Waseda Campus)
Circle: Seiren Musical Project
Aizu Museum
Date and Time: 21 May 2026 (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-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 (Wed), 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: 11 May 2026 (Mon) ~ 22 May 2026 (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 88 designated restaurants around Waseda Campus as below.
You can get the stamp card participating restaurants.
You can check the 88 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. For those who have collected five stamps on their stamp cards, 1000 winners will be selected by lottery to win an original 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 2026(Thu) ~ 25 May 2026 (Mon) 5:00 pm. Please complete these two steps before the deadline.
Please note the following points about receiving the T-shirt.
1. 1,000 winners will be selected by lottery from those who have collected five stamps.
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 2026 (Thu) ~ 24 May 2026 (Sun)
Places: The 88 Participating Restaurants
Eligibility: Anyone, and free of charge
Peter Chai (Kai Shibata)
Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Political Science
