Event Calendar
July 2021
Tokyo Summerland Day
On this trip, we will visit Tokyo Summerland! This waterpark has several large pools, waterslides, warm water spas, rides, and a Ferris wheel. The main outdoor pool is massive and features a 650-meter long lazy river. The park's outdoor waterslide has a 40-meter free fall!
Find out more »September 2021
Sports and Board Games Night
Start the semester in the most fun way: playing sports or board games while making friends! On this night, the gym in front of TUJ will be open for volleyball and basketball. Also, in the Parliament, the TableTop Club will be setting up numerous board games in case sports aren't your thing! You choose how to have fun that night!
Find out more »Airsoft Experience
For the first time in TUJ's history, we are doing Airsoft! In this activity, we will go to an indoor Airsoft Field located in Odaiba Island. In this facility, with more than 250 square meters, you will feel like in Prison Break, trying to escape through narrow corridors that will bring you some surprises. Your weapon? An Airsoft gun. Your best defense? Your teammates! After this activity, don't miss the many shopping malls and attractions you will find in Odaiba!
Find out more »October 2021
Kusatsu Onsen Overnight Trip
Fall means cooler weather, and that means it's the hot spring season! Travel with us to Kusatsu Onsen, a village among the mountains of Gunma famous for its hot springs, which have been revered by the Japanese for hundreds of years. Its sulfuric waters are known for their therapeutic properties! On our way to Kusatsu Onsen, we will stop at several places in Gunma to learn more about this beautiful prefecture!
Find out more »Trampoline Experience
What does VanHalen say? Jump! We will go to a trampoline park facility in Saitama and spend the day having fun jumping together with our SWU neighbors! The indoor park has a foam pit for you to dive into and a Ninja Course to show your friends that you have mastered the shinobi arts. There will be delicious pizza waiting for us in the party room when our legs get tired!
Find out more »Secret Gunma Day Trip
Join us on this trip to the Gunma region in northern Kanto where we will enjoy the autumn colors along an old, abandoned railway route. We will go through many tunnels and cross 100-year-old bridges, and we will finish our route by eating the local specialties of Gunma in a nearby restaurant. Before returning to Tokyo, we will relax on a nearby onsen.
Find out more »Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest
Celebrate Halloween at TUJ in the most authentic way! Participating in a Pumpkin Carving Contest! Bring out your creative side, get your hands a little dirty, and create the creepiest pumpkin worthy of scaring all of Sangenjaya! You can participate individually or in teams with your fellow students. The TUJ community will vote and the winners will receive nice prizes! We will send an email to all students with registration instructions when the day approaches!
Find out more »November 2021
Spiritual Retirement Overnight Trip
Experience the beauty of Japan at a monastery built on top of the mountain in the Edo period. On the way, we will hike a mountain which will help us emptying our minds from bad thoughts. At the Monastery, we will experience a lay sermon in the evening and a meditation session in the morning. It's time to release all the tension accumulated during the last months!
Find out more »TUJ Spirit Week
At TUJ we are unbeatable! Nothing, not even a virus, can dampen our spirit of being the most multicultural and fun university in Japan! That's why we have prepared a whole week of activities for TUJ Spirit Week! So get your Temple t-shirt out, put your Temple red on and come on down to campus! During this week TUJ will host different daily activities to make the best of your TUJ experience. Among the activities, there will be workshops, guest…
Find out more »Kumihimo Workshop
Did you enjoy the movie "Your Name"? Would you like to experience the technique that Mitsuha and her family practice to make braids? In this workshop, we will go to the traditional neighborhood of Kagurazaka to learn more about this centuries-old technique. Kumihimo is a traditional Japanese art form of making braids and cords. Samurai once used it to decorate their armor and now you too can learn it by creating your own Kumihimo bracelet!
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