Camp dates: Friday, December 26, 2025 to Monday, December 29, 2025
Program Duration: 4 days, 3 nights
Place: Kijimadaira Village, Nagano, Japan
Application period: Monday, October 27 19:00~
※Meet and disband at the location (Iiyama Station)
This winter, embark on an unforgettable multilingual adventure at Hippo camps!
The Hippo Family Club organizes “Multilingual Nature Camps” annually in Japan and around the world.
At these camps, participants from around the world gather and interact in the great outdoors. People of all ages, genders, and nationalities come together with “multilingualism” at the core.
In 2008, we launched the “Asian Multilingual Youth Camp in Shanghai,” hoping that young people from China, Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries would cultivate future-oriented friendships. Since then, we have organized camps in Thailand and Malaysia and now host them in China, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Japan. We plan to continue organizing camps around the world.
The unique feature of the “Multilingual Nature Camps” is that participants form groups and stay together at a guesthouse or on a deserted island, growing close like one big family. In addition to free play in nature, participants suggest activities they want to do, shaping their own camp experience.
This will surely open up a whole new world for everyone!
In the past camps, we have realized that people from different backgrounds can communicate and exchange ideas. (Please see "Past Camps" for more information.)
キャンプで待ってるぞ!!! by 二名良日
See you all at the camps!!! by Futana Yoshihi
Please note that a third-grade elementary student or older must register individually and separately from his/her parent(s) as he/she is supposed to stay at a different lodge from his/her parent(s).
A 2nd-grade elementary student and younger must be accompanied by an adult older than a college student.
Don’t worry if you don’t speak Japanese or English well! Please feel free to contact us.
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LEX is a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting multilingualism and intercultural understanding. There are three integrated components to LEX – language clubs, international exchange programs, and educational materials. The heart of our programs is an openness to all languages and all people.
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