Biggest Japanese School Festival (Mita Festival)

Japanese Culture & Photography
3 min readAug 24, 2020

Keio University’s School Festival, also known as Mita Festival was held on November 22–26, 2012.

Mita Campus is about 10 minutes away from either the Mita station or Tamachi Station. From the entrance of Mita Campus, you can see Tokyo Tower. This Campus is small compared to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and yet it is holds supposedly the biggest school festival in Japan.

It was ridiculously packed with people and so they hold many of their events inside the class buildings and on their outside stage as well. In the West School Building, you will find bands playing music in a normal class room next to bands playing in the other rooms. Some bands also perform on the main stage. You will also find dancers performing in these small rooms but they also perform on the main stage.

They have stores, food booths, a wrestling ring, martial arts stage, etc. I found that the wrestling ring was very interesting. They aren’t professional and their punches are very fake and they actually…

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Japanese Culture & Photography

Japanese culture, food, sightseeing spots, and photography. Tokyo based Asian American professional photographer born and raised in Hawaii.