Nanatsu no Ko

is a popular Japanese children's song with lyrics written by Ujō Noguchi and composed by Nagayo Motoori. Published in Kin no fune magazine in July 1921. Nanatsu no ko is used as the departure melody at Isohara Station in Kitaibaraki and also as 6 p.m bell in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology at Nomi, Ishikawa. Nanatsu no ko is the famous song in Japan.

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In popular culture

The song is sung by a nondiegetic children's choir in the 1954 Kinoshita Keisuke film Twenty-Four Eyes.
In the manga and anime Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama, the mail address of the boss of the Black Organization is #969#6261, which reproduces the beginning of Nanatsu no Ko.
The song is sung in the anime Magical Girl Ore episode 10 by Mohiro to console a lost child.