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= Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts =

Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts is a specialized public arts-academic senior high school located in Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan.

Overview
Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts is part of the Tokyo Metropolian Board of Education and accepts students from all over greater Tokyo area from Grade 10 to 12 by audition.

The school was established in April 2010 as the only full-time arts-academic senior high school in Tokyo (credit-based system). There are 3 departments in the school, Faculty of art, Faculty of theater performance (This is the first theater performance course at a public high school in Tokyo), Faculty of music, and has 4 classes per year. Its abbreviated names include Sogei (Current abbreviation) and Geikou (Abbreviation from the former school of Tokyo Metropolitan Arts High School).

The school does not have explicit school rules, leaving most of the discipline up to the students' common sense. There is no chime system except for the days when there are regular examinations, examinations and entrance examinations. Saturday study days are set regularly, and school facilities such as practice rooms are open to students for production and practice.

Application and Audition Process
Students are accepted into their chosen field, namely Faculty of art, Faculty of theater performance (Drama, Dance) and Faculty of music (Instrumental music, Vocal music, Composition, Musicology), after undergoing an application process and passing an audition the year before.

They must submit their grade nine, second term report card and there are two type of enter exzamination, one is the examination recomend by junior high school and the second is general exzamination.

Students can take both the recommendation entrance examination and the general entrance examination, but the ratio of examination recomend by junior high school is extreamly high. Therefore, many students apply both kind of entrance examination to enter the school.

Examination subjects for examination for selected candidates by their junior high school:
Students must submit their grade nine second term report card, practical audition and undergo an personal interview.

Examination subjects for general entrance examination:
Students must submit their grade nine second term report card, practical audition, academic subjects test (Japanese, mathematics and English).

Programs of study

 * Faculty of art (Japanese painting, Oil painting, Sculpture, Design, Film and New Media)
 * Faculty of theater performance (Theater, Classical ballet, Contemporary dance)
 * Faculty of music (Instrumental music, Vocal music, Composition, Musicology)

History

 * 1902 Established Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School
 * 1950 Newly established Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School
 * 1950 Established the Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School Arts Department
 * 1972 Established Tokyo Metropolitan Arts High School
 * 2008 Establishment of a preparatory office of Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts
 * Oct 2009 - Approval of the Establishment of Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School of the Arts
 * April 2010 - Opening of school
 * Dec 2011 - Relocation from the old school building in Komaba, Meguro ward to the new school building in Tomihisa, Shinjuku ward completed
 * 2012
 * January - The faculty of art and the faculty of theater performance class begin
 * March - Tokyo Metropolitan Arts High SchoolTokyo Metropolitan Arts High School closed
 * Faculty of music course joins from Komaba school building

Facilities
Specialized facilities are provided for classes and activities in the art, theatre performance and music


 * School building
 * Gymnasium Building (rooftop pool)
 * Hall (520 seats)
 * Gallery
 * Two tennis courts

Faculty of art:
A graduation work exhibition is held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.


 * In the first semester students stayed at Nikko National Park (Katashina-mura, Tone-gun, Gunma) for 4 days and 3 nights as a sketching training camp.
 * During the school festival period, a competition exhibition is held in which only the selected works are exhibited after internal school audition.
 * Exhibitions organized by spontaneous students are regularly held in the gallery of the school.

Faculty of theater performance:

 * Annual performances are held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
 * Results recital are held regularly in the hall.
 * As a compilation of contemporary dance course learning, students of contemporary dance course participated in the All Japan Dance Festival in Kobe on August every year.

Faculty of music:

 * Salon concerts are held 3 times a year in the old western-style residence of the Maeda family (tangible cultural properties).
 * Concerts and recitals are held regularly in the hall and entrance hall with atrium.

Theme of school festival
2010: The 1st: "Geitan" (The art of birth)

2011: The 2nd: "Geigeki" (The sortie of art)

2012: The 3rd: "Geikou" (The port of art)

2013: The 4th: "eARTh" (There is the word "ART" in the word)

2014: The 5th: "CIRCUS"

2015: The 6th: "Forest"

2016: The 7th: "Factory"

2017: The 8th: "Sparkling"

2018: The 9th: "Geikoku" (The nation of art)

2018: The 10th: "BEAT"

School song
At the time of its establishment, there was no school song in the closed Tokyo Metropolitan Arts High School, so the school song was created under strong resistance from people in the faculty of music. Therefore, despite having a faculty of music, the lyrics were written by the school song establishment project team and the music was composed by external composer Yukie Nishimura.

Uniforms
Former Tokyo Metropolitan Arts High School does not have a uniform. However, the uniform was made when Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Senior High School is established.

It is not mandatory to wear regular days only ceremony or event. The design is the general "school uniform" of the blazer type.

Access

 * 9 minutes walk from Akebonobashi Station on the Toei Subway Shinjuku Line
 * 11 minute walk from Shinjuku-gyoenmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
 * 12 minutes walk from Wakamatsu-Kawata Station on the Toei Oedo Line
 * 15 minutes walk from Shinjuku Sanchome Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
 * 16 minutes walk from Higashi-Shinjuku Station on the Toei Oedo Line
 * 21 minute walk from Seibu Shinjuku Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line
 * Take the Toei Bus to bus stop 1 at the West Exit of JR Shinjuku Station "Bound for Nerima Shako", get off at "Ichigaya Fuku-cho" and walk 3 minutes.
 * 21 minute walk from JR Shinjuku Station