Kyoto University’s Yoshida Dormitory hosts a party called “Club Yoshida.” Keen, upcoming local DJs play dissident, East Asian experimental music on a shisha-hazy dancefloor.
Club Yoshida in one sentence should be “a monthly evening party / temporary nightclub at a canteen at Japan’s best Kyoto University’s Yoshida Dormitory.”
The entrance of Yoshida Dormitory.
The venue, Yoshida Dormitory, is a student dormitory famous for its history and architecture and leftist bohemian condition of its existence. To live there, it only costs 2500 yen / $17.90 per month as long as a tenant is somehow considered a student. Sounds liberal.
Timeless, hermit-looking students (who may or may not be pursuing their actual Master of Arts, MD, or BA) chilling with shisha is my limited stereotype of Yoshida Dormitory. Why not be smarter and clubbing right there?
Club Yoshida’s dancehall a.k.a. Yoshida Dormitory’s canteen.
People dancing.
Club Yoshida is a monthly (possibly bimonthly) party that usually starts at 7pm-ish and lasts until not morning but late. Unlike its ultra-relaxed vibe, it functions as a proper nightclub with proper music performed by keen upcoming local DJs.
If your night requires some drenching in a sweet grapy haze with somehow dissident, East Asian experimental sounds, Club Yoshida has all. The party is free and sandal-friendly. Bouncers speak language: they are nice. At the end of the day, this is Japan’s Ivy League Kyoto University.
A “Sailor Moon gone nuts” sign screaming who they are.
Details
Club Yoshida
Yoshida Dormitory (京大吉田寮)
Yoshida Dormitory (京大吉田寮) | 69 Yoshidakonoecho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 〒606-8315, Japan
