Great Lakes Taiko Center

400 years of experience in making handcrafted taiko drums have helped to make Asano Taiko the top taiko maker in the world.

Asano Taiko's top performing group. They are also our instructors.

World famous taiko drummers, Yamato. They are based in Nara and have been an inspiration and great help to us in many ways.

Kodo - Who doesn't know Kodo? Although they were not the founders of modern taiko, they are largely responsible for increasing awareness of Japanese drumming. For many people, Kodo was their first exposure to taiko.

If you want to learn a true traditional form of taiko drumming with a 400 year old history, Ichikawa Juku is the best place to learn Kaga Daiko (Taiko). Watch the videos and keep in mind this is all improvised. There is no written music for Kaga Daiko.

This website, full of taiko resources is run by a fellow studet of the Ichikawa Kaga Taiko Juku. Here you can learn such useful things as how to make a practice taiko or how to make a flute out of pvc piping and much more.

A great place to discuss anything related to taiko.

Formed in 2003 and based in Cleveland/Akron/Oberlin College.

Taiko group from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

Tsukasa Taiko out of Chicago

Kokyo Taiko, also out of Chicago

Mu Daiko - a part of Mu Performing Arts, the 3rd largest pan-Asian performing arts organization in the U.S

Nagata Shachu - Taiko group out of Toronto

Arashido Taiko - Taiko group out of Toronto

Isshin Daiko - Taiko group out of Toronto