Hibike! Euphonium event brings school bands and TRUE to Uji
Uji's December Hibike! Euphonium event will feature five school brass bands, a TRUE live show and a lottery for free entry.
Hibike! Euphonium (響け！ユーフォニアム) is heading back to its real-world setting for a free collaboration event in Uji, Kyoto. Keihan Holdings and Keihan Electric Railway say the Uji City x Keihan Hibike! Euphonium Collaboration Festa 2026 will take place on 19 December, with five school brass bands and a live performance by TRUE.1
A festival built around the setting
The event will be held at Uji Cultural Centre's main hall from 1.30pm to 4.20pm, with doors opening at 12.45pm. The first part, Enjoy Brass Band!, brings together Higashiuji High School, Todo High School, Kyoto Subaru High School, Ritsumeikan Uji High School and Kyoto Tachibana High School.1
The second part is a limited live show from TRUE, the artist who performs theme songs for the Hibike! Euphonium series. Entry is free, but places are being allocated by lottery. Keihan's official campaign page lists applications as running from 14 October at 3.30pm until 6 November at 11.59pm, with winning applicants due to be notified on 13 November.1
The event is part of Keihan's wider autumn collaboration with the anime, which includes wrapped trains, tickets, a digital stamp rally and a display tracing earlier Hibike! Euphonium railway collaborations. The official campaign page also lists a stage-location walking tour around Uji on the same day, with places allocated through a separate application.1
Oricon's report confirms the event announcement and identifies Uji as the setting associated with the series, while Keihan's release supplies the full programme and application details.2
Our opinion
This is a particularly neat fit for Hibike! Euphonium because the event is not simply borrowing the show's name for a promotional stage. It uses Uji, the real location woven through the series, as the centre of a day built around school music, local participation and a walk through the places that inspired the setting.
The five-school line-up also gives the announcement more substance than a standard anniversary appearance. It makes the fictional connection tangible without pretending that the anime and the local schools are the same thing. The practical catch is that free entry still means a lottery, so fans should treat the application dates as the important part of the announcement rather than assuming the venue is open access.