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Music Workshop Discover a whole new world broadening with music across all ages—from infants to adults

Music Workshop Discover a whole new world broadening with music across all ages—from infants to adults

Workshops

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop was created based on our wish for "as many people as possible to come enjoy the wonder of music without making large efforts!" Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop is a program with an objective to foster thriving spirits through the development of both communication and self expression skills, via the raising of interest in music and the arts. As a public cultural institute, we wish to provide a comfortable space where people can come together to enjoy music. And lately, we are putting more of our energy into workshops for people who need support from society, by growing our activities into nursing homes and welfare facilities for persons with disabilities.

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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Music Workshop
Various Online Programs Available on YouTube!

2024 season workshop lineup and detailed introduction of each program (PDF *only in Japanese)PDF

April 2025–September 2025

Musica Piccola

The long-awaited concert is going to be held today! Let's play fabulous music with the maestro!

  • Admission AgesAge 3–4, Age 5–8

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One Day Session

Let’s create music with the workshop leaders!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adult

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Museum of Wonders

A new encounter with music awaits you here in this Museum of Wonder, where you can touch and see sounds.
Let’s pick up and feel them, walking around the museum together.

  • Admission AgesAge 4-6 (Pre-school children/for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing participants), Age 5-8 (for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing participants)

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Shiny! Fluffy! The Weather Research Lab

Let’s play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and feel the weather through sounds and your body!

  • Admission Ages6-18 months, 19-35 months, Age 3-4

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Traveling Europe

Let’s take a train with George and Mary and travel around Europe along with popular classical music!

  • Admission Ages6-18 months, 19-35 months

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American Music Party Vol.2

It’s Show Time!!
Are you ready to jump into the exciting world of American music?

  • Admission Ages3 years-Adults

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Welcome to Classical Music!—An Invitation to Ballet Music

Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing

  • Admission Ages6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)

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Barbara's Magic Potions

You cannot miss fun and mysterious music to make magic potions!How will the witch Barbara's new recipe turn out?

  • Admission Ages6 months-4 years,3–6 years (Pre–school children)

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Parum! Pum! Pum! Percussion!

Beat and Roll!
Let’s take a look at the world of percussions and make them sound together!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Tuneful Candy Shop

Pat it, mix it, and fluff it up! Let's make tuneful candy!

  • Admission AgesAge 3–4,Age 5-8

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Welcome to Classical Music!—Flute

Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing

  • Admission Ages6 months–6 years (Pre–school children)

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One Day Session

Let’s create music with the workshop leaders!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Tora and Shiroko's story

Seeding together with a cat and a mouse. Let's grow the plant with lovely music!

  • Admission AgesAge 3–4

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Welcome to Cafe Ensemble!—Today’s Special: BIZET”

Enjoy a delightful moment with a cup of music brewed with unique sounds!

  • Admission AgesAge 50 and above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)

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Migo's Magic Vol.2

Let’s save Amigo with the power of music and Migo!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months,19-35 months

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Shall we sing?

Beginners and repeaters welcome! Find another you by singing and dancing with your flexible body and relaxing voice!

  • Admission AgesAge 50 and above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)

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Workshop Concert—Violin & Cello & Piano

Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing

  • Admission Ages6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)

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Body, Sound, Sing

Your voice and Everyone's voice, Your tone and Everyone's tone. Find the only music you can't find anywhere else, created with various sounds.

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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October 2024–March 2025

Welcome to Omatsuri Island!

Enjoy Japanese festivals together with fun-loving friends!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4

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Shiny! Fluffy! The Weather Research Lab

Let’s play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and feel the weather through sounds and your body!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months

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American Music Party Vol.2

It’s Show Time!!
Are you ready to jump into the exciting world of American music?

  • Admission Ages3 years–Adults

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Migo's Magic Vol.2

  • Admission Ages6–18 months,19-35 months

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Welcome to Classical Music!—String Quartet

Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing

  • Admission Ages6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)

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Squeaky Cleaning Musiclean

Let’s clean up to the rhythm!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Music flower

Let the flower seeds sprout and grow into bloom with a help of sun and rain fairies!

  • Admission AgesAge 3–4, Age 5–8

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Shall we sing?

Beginners and repeaters welcome! Find another you by singing and dancing with your flexible body and relaxing voice!

  • Admission AgesAge 50 and above (Free invitation for those aged 65 and above)

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Jazz Bar for Babies

That cool jazz bar is also open tonight! Let’s enjoy jazz music through singing, dancing, and swinging!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4

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Concert under the sea—The secret of the mysterious treasure box

Let's work together with our friends under the sea to crack open the world treasure box!

  • Admission Ages6 months–4 years, 3–6 years (Pre-school children)

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Bebe Waka (Lion Beat)

Let's make friends with a lion in the music jungle in Africa!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4

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Monkey Music Lab

Japanese children's songs that everyone knows get jazz and rock makeovers! The fun music experiments by Kikki and Mon-chan are ready to start.

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 5–8

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Sound Atelier

Touch, play, listen, and then?
Feel the world of musical instruments with your whole body!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4

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One Day Session

Let's create music with workshop leaders!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Original Workshop A (New Production)“Hello to the World Behind the Mirror!”

The magic word is “Mirror!”
Let’s make friends in the world behind the mirror!

  • Admission Ages19–35 months

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Festa with the King of the Forest

Let's have a festival for welcoming our princess! Sing with smiles and dance together!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–4

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Baby Cricket

Let's go on an adventure with two friendly crickets and see how the nature sounds from mountains and valleys transform into music!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months

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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Original Workshop B (New Production) “Hungry Béla and the Sounding Tree”

Béla enters the forest to look for tasty fruits. Suddenly, he hears something.
Let’s enjoy some Eastern European music!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months

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Museum of Wonders

  • Admission AgesAge 4-6 (Pre-school children/for deaf and hard-of-hearing participants), Age 5-8 (for deaf and hard-of-hearing participants), 1st-3rd grade elementary school students (for deaf and hard-of-hearing participants)

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Rhythmic Kitchen

Let's cook a feast of sounds and rhythms! The ordinary kitchen tools become fun musical instruments!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Musica Piccola

The long-awaited concert is going to be held today! Let's play fabulous music with the maestro!

  • Admission AgesAge 3–4, Age 5–8

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Cha Cha Pum

Casa da Música’s very popular concert is coming to Tokyo!

  • Admission AgesElementary School Students–Adults

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Animal Detective

Let’s go seek the hidden animals in the riddle zoo!

  • Admission Ages6–18 months, 19–35 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)

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Welcome to Classical Music!—Violin & Cello & Piano

Interactive concert by seeing, listening, and experiencing

  • Admission Ages6 months–6 years (Pre-school children)

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Happy and Friends

Happy, an English speaker, has come to visit Toy’s room!
Let’s all be friends by singing and dancing together.

  • Admission Ages19–35 months, Age 3–6 (Pre-school children)

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Workshop Leader Skills Training Program

Having a partnership with an overseas music institution which leads the state-of-the-art educational programs, we offer training courses to develop a personnel who can share the joy of music with new approaches to diverse people. The most outstanding participants will have a chance to visit Casa da Música (Portugal) for attending the special training program!

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casa_da_musica Photo Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Casa da Música (Portugal) are in collaboration since 2013, and we have been in cooperation to build a relationship that will further our programs, through offerings including the dispatch of workshop leaders and lecturers from Casa da Música to the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and the sending of our Workshop Leader Skills Training Program students to their site for training. Casa da Música, which means "House of Music," inaugurated in 2005 as the first institution in Portugal specialized in music aimed for enhancing the creativity of music, and commemorating the city of Porto's being designated as European Capital of Culture in 2001.
Casa da Música has hosted concerts and festivals that blend the diverse arts and cultures, and was the first in Portugal to work on fully-realized educational programs. Under their credo that "music is both art and what fosters the generous spirit in people," Casa da Música's mission is to have all types of people to experience music in all of its richness under their educational programs, and they run activities for the local communities and projects where citizens can actively participate.