Kawagoe Technical High School

Kawagoe Technical High School
埼玉県立川越工業高等学校
Location

350-0035

Japan
Coordinates35°54′47″N 139°29′13″E / 35.91306°N 139.48694°E / 35.91306; 139.48694
Information
TypePublic
MottoFidelity (誠実, Seijitsu), Diligence (勤勉, Kinben), Ingenuity (創意, Sōi)
Established29 April 1908
FounderSaitama prefectural government
Genderco-educational
Websitewww.eimei.ed.jp

Kawagoe Technical High School (Japanese: 埼玉県立川越工業高等学校, Hepburn: Saitama-kenritsu Kawagoe Kōgyō Kōtōgakkō; lit. Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe Industrial High School) is a public co-educational senior high school located in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The high school was founded as the Kawagoe Dyeing and Weaving School (埼玉県立川越染織学校, Saitama-kenritsu Kawagoe Senshoku Gakkō) in 1908 by the Saitama prefectural government.

The school is the oldest high school in Saitama Prefecture and has both full-day and part-time courses. Its alumni include the "Father of the Walkman", former President of Sony China Shizuo Takashino. In 2015 students of the school set a Guinness World Record for the "longest distance traveled by a vehicle on a railway track powered by dry cell batteries".