Music

Folk songs, school songs, taiko, and other genres to get your neurons firing.



Drive through Kawakami playing this song and you’ll be followed by all the residents like the pied piper. It is the song of the Ido Super!
Here is a sample of a local folk song about riding ikada log rafts down the Yoshino River, sung by the Kawakami great, Kin-chan.

Be sure to check out the Kawakami Super Grooves Remix Project.

What began at first as an idea to simply upload an old folksong .mp3 file onto this website grew into an idea for a hiphop remix project.

There is a food truck that frequents all of the hamlets of the village and plays an old folk song of the village through a speaker to let elderly residents know the food truck has arrived. This track and all the others in this playlist are remixes this folk song provided by DJs from all over the world. There are currently eight unique tracks in this playlist which will autoplay via the embedded YouTube player below. The original track is the last one in this playlist.

If you’d like to make your own submission, inquire via email.

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