, meaning Tokyo Children Club, is an early childhood education

Early childhood education

Early childhood education is the formal teaching and care of young children by people other than their family or in settings outside of the home. 'Early childhood' is usually defined as before the age of normal schooling - five years in most nations, though the U.S...

 program published in Japan in an audio-visual format, distributed monthly on a record. The 7-inch record contained stories and songs, accompanied by a picture book

Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil.Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now...

 that could be bound in a special folder. The early-childhood education program came in two courses: a 2-4 year old course and a 5-7 year old course. Each of the courses was designed to complete in 12 months. In addition on a quarterly basis, the Club sent out supplemental stories, songs and other music on a 12-inch record. The recitations on Side A were by , and on Side B, . The records were monaural recordings at 33-1/3 rpm. Presently, the recordings have gone out of print, making their procurement quite difficult.

Programs

The programs were designed to familiarize children with stories and songs from around the world, with emphasis on European orchestral works. Main story narration often featured Classical music as a background music in order to help set the tone of the story. The bullets found in the index to each lesson were color-coded: red for the main story, blue for the songs and yellow for the occasional extra story. In the original course series, the main stories and songs were bulleted with a star and the extra stories with a circle. However, in later course series, they switched their bullets to red circles, blue squares and yellow triangles, keeping the same color code as before.

2-4 year old Basic Course

Unit	Side A	Side B
1	Introduction: This is Tokyo Kodomo Club Story: Three Little Pigs Three Little Pigs Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older...	Song: Song: Cuckoo, Cuckoo Story:
2	Story: The Tortoise and the Hare The Tortoise and the Hare The Tortoise and the Hare is a fable attributed to Aesop and is number 226 in the Perry Index. The story concerns a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise and is challenged by him to a race. The hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and, confident of winning, decides to take a nap midway through...	Song: Song: Song:
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4	Story: The Town Musicians of Bremen	Song: Song: Song:
5	Story: Little Black Sambo Little Black Sambo The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman, and first published by Grant Richards in October 1899 as one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children....  http://www.mypress.jp/v2_writers/tokyo_kodomo_fan	Song: Story: County Mouse and Tokyo Mouse The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" is one of Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne-Thompson's folk tale index. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, 'town mouse and country mouse' has become an English idiom....
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7	Story: The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 5. It is Aarne-Thompson type 123., but has a strong resemblance to The Three Little Pigs and other Aarne-Thomspson type 124 folktales, and to the variant of Little Red Riding Hood that the Grimms...	Song: Song:
8	Story: Momotarō Momotaro is a popular hero from Japanese folklore. His name literally means Peach Tarō; as Tarō is a common Japanese boy's name, it is often translated as Peach Boy...	Song: Song: Song:
9	Story: Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....	Song: Story:
10	Story: Kintarō Kintaro is a folk hero from Japanese folklore. A child of superhuman strength, he was raised by a mountain hag on Mount Ashigara. He became friendly with the animals of the mountain, and later, after catching Shutendouji, the terror of the region around Mount Ooe, he became a loyal follower of Minamoto no...	Song: Song: Song:
11	Story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Song: Story:
12	Story: Hanasaka Jiisan Hanasaka Jiisan Hanasaka Jiisan is a Japanese fairy tale. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in Tales of Old Japan, as The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom. Andrew Lang included it, as The Envious Neighbor, in The Violet Fairy Book, listing his sources as Japanische...	Song: Song: Song:

2-4 year old Graduation

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Baron Münchhausen Baron Munchhausen Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen , usually known as Baron Münchhausen in English, was a German nobleman born in Bodenwerder and a famous recounter of tall tales....	Little Women Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...

2-4 year old Graduate Course

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1	Story: Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic hag living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery. The two children...	Song: London Bridge is Falling Down London Bridge is Falling Down "London Bridge Is Falling Down" is a well-known traditional nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 502.-Lyrics:... Song: Song: Song:
2	Story: Pied Piper of Hamlin	Song: Song: Story:
3	Story: Emperor's New Clothes	Song: Song: Song: Song:
4	Story: Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions...	Song: Do-Re-Mi Do-Re-Mi "Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Within the story, it is used by Maria to teach the notes of the major musical scale to the Von Trapp children who learn to sing for the first time, even though their father has disallowed frivolity after... Song: Story:
5	Story: The Three Wishes	Song: Song: Song: Song:
6	Story: The Honest Woodcutter	Song: Song: Story:
7	Story: The Dog and the Shadow	Song: Song: Song: Song:
8	Story: The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky .The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the...	Song: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree is a set of variations, with fugue, for orchestra composed in 1939 by Jaromír Weinberger. It premiered under the direction of Sir John Barbirolli in New York City on October 12, 1939... Story:
9	Story: King Midas Has Donkey's Ears	Song: Song: Song: Song:
10	Story: Cinderella Cinderella "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...	Song: Song: Story:
11	Story: The Adventures of Mouse Deer	Song: Song: Song: Song:
12	Story: Ivan the Fool Ivan the Fool Ivan the Fool or Ivan the Ninny is a character used in Russian folklore, a very simple-minded, but nevertheless lucky young man. Ivan is described as a likeable fair-haired and blue-eyed youth....	Song: Song: Story:

5-7 year old Basic Course

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1	Story: The Happy Prince	Song: Song: Frère Jacques Frère Jacques "Frère Jacques" , in English sometimes called "Brother John" or "Brother Peter", is a French nursery melody. The song is traditionally sung in a round. When the first singer reaches the end of the first line the next person starts at the beginning... Song:
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3	Story: Puss in Boots Puss in Boots 'Puss' is a character in the fairy tale "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots" by Charles Perrault. The tale was published in 1697 in his Histoires ou Contes du temps passé...	Song: Story:
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5	Story: Seven Stars (Russian Folktale)	Song: Story:
6	Story:	Song: Song: Ten Little Indians Ten Little Indians "Ten Little Indians" is a children's rhyme. The song is usually performed to the Irish folk tune "Michael Finnegan". It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13512.-Lyrics:The modern lyrics are believed to be public domain and are as follows:... Song:
7	Story: Snow White Snow White "Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...	Song: Story:
8	Story: Issun-bōshi	Song: Song: Song:
9	Story: Urashima Tarō Urashima Taro is a Japanese legend about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, under the sea...	Song: Merrily We Roll Along (song) Merrily We Roll Along (song) "Merrily We Roll Along" is a song loosely based on the 1847 song "Goodnight, Ladies" by E. P. Christy. Written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor in 1935, and used in the Warner Bros cartoon Billboard Frolics that same year, it is best known as the theme of Warner Bros.' Merrie... Story:
10	Story: Pinocchio Pinocchio The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio , an...	Song: Song: Song:
11	Story: The Golden Goose	Song: Story:
12	Story: The Giant Corn (American Folktale)	Song: Song:

5-7 year old Graduation

Overture Collection
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Light Cavalry Leichte Kavallerie Leichte Kavallerie is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé, with a libretto by Karl Costa. It was first performed in the Carltheater, Vienna on 21 March 1866....  Overture Overture to Marriage of Figaro Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...  Overture	Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila 1812 Overture 1812 Overture The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of...

5-7 year old Graduate Course

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1	Story:	Song: Song: Song:
2	Story: Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox	Song: Song: Story:
3	Story: The Lion That Wore Glasses	Song: Song: Song: Song:
4	Story: Ugly Duckling	Song: Song: Story:
5	Story: The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost "The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. It was later included in a collection of short stories entitled...	Song: Song: Song:
6	Story: Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's in 1886...	Song: Song: Story:
7	Story: Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...	Song: Song: I've Been Working on the Railroad I've Been Working on the Railroad "I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894... Song: Doctor Eisenbart Song:
8	Story: The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...	Song: Song: The Old Gray Mare The Old Gray Mare The Old Gray Mare is an old folk song, more recently regarded as a children's song. Although nominally about horses, it can also be interpreted as referring to women who are well past their prime.... Story:
9	Story: Heidi Heidi Heidi is a Swiss work of fiction, published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned.It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps...	Song: Song: Song: Song:
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11	Story: Bluebeard Bluebeard "Bluebeard" is a French literary folktale written by Charles Perrault and is one of eight tales by the author first published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697 in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the...	Song: Song: Song: Song:
12	Story: Noah's Ark Noah's Ark Noah's Ark is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran . These narratives describe the construction of the ark by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.In the narrative of the ark, God sees the...	Song: Song: Story:

Spring

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Summer

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Song:	Story: Thumbelina Thumbelina "Thumbelina" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. "Thumbelina" is about a tiny girl and...
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Autumn

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Winter

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Story: The Little Match Girl The Little Match Girl The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's dreams and hope, and was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media including animated film, and a television musical.-Plot summary:On a cold New Year’s...	Song:
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	Song: Jingle Bells Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...
	Song: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through...
	Song: Joy to the World Joy to the World "Joy to the World" is a Christian Christmas carol.The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and...
	Song: O Tannenbaum O Tannenbaum "O Tannenbaum", or, in its English version, "O Christmas Tree", is a Christmas carol of German origin.A Tannenbaum is a fir tree or Christmas tree...
	Song: Silent Night

The Purple Flowers

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Song: Bear Climbed over the Mountain	Song:
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Song: Brahms' Lullaby Brahms' Lullaby Cradle Song is the common name for a number of children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht , Op. 49, No. 4, published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby...
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Let's sing with Dad

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	Song: Sur le pont d'Avignon Sur le pont d'Avignon "Sur le pont d’Avignon" is a French song about the Pont d'Avignon that dates back to the 15th century. This song is a popular preset on Yamaha Keyboards....
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Uncle's Pastures

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Song: I've Been Working on the Railroad I've Been Working on the Railroad "I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894...	Song:
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Kodomo Concert Hall

The Kodomo Concert Hall series were recordings of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

The , or TSO, was established in 1946 as the Toho Symphony Orchestra . It assumed its present name in 1951.Based in Kawasaki, the TSO performs in numerous concert halls and serves as the pit ensemble for some productions at New National Theatre, Tokyo, the city's leading opera house...

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Kodomo Concert Hall No. 1:

Kodomo Concert Hall No. 2: Swan Lake Swan Lake Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

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Kodomo Concert Hall No. 4: A Musical play: Maya the Bee Maya the Bee The Adventures of Maya the Bee is a German book, comic book series and animated television series, first written by Waldemar Bonsels and published in 1912...

Kodomo Concert Hall No. 5: The Nutcracker The Nutcracker The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

Kodomo Concert Hall No. 6: Peter and the Wolf Peter and the Wolf Peter and the Wolf , Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story , spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra....

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Uncle Kōji's Story Bag

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Sing in English Group

The Tokyo Kodomo Club issued two courses of children’s songs in English for the Japanese audience in the series. These songs were sung by Esther Ghan and her children. The course was designed similarly to their Japanese courses, where the lesson units were distributed monthly on a record. Each of the courses was designed to complete in 12 months, with the course set spanning two years. For the older children, in a set of six lesson units and a Christmas supplement were provided. It also spanned over two years.

Let’s Sing English Songs (1)

Unit	Side A	Side B
1	Ten Little Indians	(same as Side A)
2	Are You Sleeping ?	(same as Side A)
3	London Bridge	(same as Side A)
4	Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?	(same as Side A)
5	A Tisket, A Tasket	(same as Side A)
6	The Bear Went Over The Mountain The Bear Went Over the Mountain (song) "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a popular children's song often sung to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". At one time the lyrics were sung to the tune of "We'll All go Down to Roswer". The public domain lyrics are of unknown origin.-Lyrics:...	(same as Side A)
7	My Bonnie	(same as Side A)
8	Sailing, Sailing	Lovely May
9	The Mulberry Bush	(same as Side A)
10	Mary Had A Little Lamb	(same as Side A)
11	Twinkle, Twinke, Little Star	(same as Side A)
12	Hush, Little Baby	(same as Side A)

Let’s Sing English Songs (2)

Unit	Side A	Side B
1	Six Little Ducks	(same as Side A)
2	Three Blind Mice	(same as Side A)
3	The Little Skunk	(same as Side A)
4	Simple Simon	(same as Side A)
5	Brother Come And Dance With Me	(same as Side A)
6	Sweetly Sings The Donkey	(same as Side A)
7	Billy Boy	(same as Side A)
8	Row, Row, Row Your Boat	Merrily We Roll Along
9	The Muffin Man	(same as Side A)
10	Pop Goes The Weasel	(same as Side A)
11	Looby Loo	(same as Side A)
12	Three Little Kittens	(same as Side A)

Folk-album for All (1)

Unit	Side A	Side B
1	Happy Birthday To You	When The Saints Go Marching In
2	Puff, the Magic Dragon Puff, the Magic Dragon "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. The song achieved great popularity and has entered American and British pop culture.-Lyrics:...	Danny Boy
3	You Are My Sunshine	Greensleeves
4	Long, Long Ago	Cradle Song
5	Do - Re - Mi	Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A country folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia"....
6	The Camptown Races Camptown Races Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster . It was probably composed in Cincinnati in 1849, according to Richard Jackson, and published by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore, Maryland, in February 1850...	Sipping Cider Through A Straw Sipping Cider Through a Straw Sipping Cider Through a Straw is a 1919 song composed by Byron G. Harlan. The tune is identical to "Princess Pat" and "The Other Day I Met a Bear"....
X'mas	We Wish You A Merry Christmas Jingle Bells	Silent Night Auld Lang Syne

Folk-album for All (2)

Unit	Side A	Side B
1	Michael, Row The Boat Ashore	Rock A Bye, Baby
2	Did You Ever See A Lassie ?	The Blue Bells Of Scotland
3	To Market, To Market	Aura Lee
4	Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms	Annie Laurie
5	Hey, Diddle, Diddle	Early One Morning
6	The Man On The Flying Trapeze	Hush - A -Bye
X'mas	Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Deck The Hall	The Twelve Days Of Christmas

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Contact information

Original Address:

• Tokyo Kodomo Club
  15-5 Hachiyama-chō
  Shibuya
  Shibuya, Tokyo
  is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, it has an estimated population of 208,371 and a population density of 13,540 persons per km². The total area is 15.11 km²....
  
  -ku, Tōkyō, Japan 〒150-0035
• Telephone (pre-exchange expansion): 81-3-464-1311 (03-464-1311 in Japan)
• Telephone (post-exchange expansion): 81-3-3464-1311 or 81-3-3464-7468 (03-3464-1311 or 03-3464-7468 in Japan)
• Postal transfer: Tokyo 5-88764

Current address:

• Tokyo Kodomo Club
  12-4 Asahi-chō
  Hachiōji
  Hachioji, Tokyo
  is a city located in Tokyo, Japan, about 40 kilometers west of the center of the special wards of Tokyo.As of January 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 551,901 and a population density of 2,962.27/km². The total area is 186.31 km². It is the eighth largest city in the...
  
  -shi, Tōkyō, Japan 〒192-0083
• Telephone: 81-42-656-6756 (042-656-6756 in Japan)

External links

• Biography of Esther Ghan who provided the voice for songs in English
• (Japanese) Jacket art on the quarterly supplement albums found towards the bottom of the page at the section titled 『東京こどもクラブ』