The Campus of University of Tokyo is located in University of Tokyo and is the first research university that has modern buildings built in Japan. After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and the Tokyo air raids during World War II, the campus still remains largely undamaged creating a symbolization of the Japanese higher education history. For these reasons and others, many of the buildings on the campus are designated as being nationally important buildings. There are some colleges that are rated higher than the University for their buildings' architecture. This article gives an account of the buildings from the campus with a focus on registered important cultural properties or registered tangible cultural heritage that exists now or once existed with a historical significance.[1][2]
The Hongo campus has many historic buildings including the Yasuda Auditorium, the first registered tangible cultural heritage in Tokyo. Also notable are the front gate, or the porter's lodge, Faculty of Law & Letters Buildings 1, 2 and 3, the Faculty of Engineering (Reppin-kan), and the Faculty of Engineering Building 1 are all registered as of tangible cultural heritage.
All of the buildings on campus, except for the front gate, were designed by Yoshikazu Uchida in a Gothic style now known as Uchida Gothic. One of the most notable examples of this style is the Faculty of Medicine Building 3 (administration building of Medicine), however there are many other Uchida Gothics on campus.[1][2][3]
The Front Gate is completed in 1912 and designed by Chuta Ito. The Front Gate's porter's lodge was registered as one of the tangible cultural heritage.
Aka mon (赤門, Red gate)Aka Mon (赤門, Red gate)
The "Red Gate", also known as the {{nihongo|Goshuden mon|御守殿門|Goshuden gate|} is one of the national heirloom and an important cultural property built in 1827. The gate used to be owned by the lord of the Maeda clan. The gate was constructed at the time of the marriage ceremony of Yasu-hime (溶姫), the daughter of the 11th tycoon Tokugawa Ienari (徳川家斉), to Maeda Nariyasu (前田斉泰, name of 12th lord), the 12th lord of Maeda clan.
Ikeno-hata mon (池之端門, Ikeno-hata gate)
The Ikeno-hata gate is located in the eastern part of the campus and faces Shinobazu street. This gate allows access to the Ueno Station and the Yushima station. The gate is mainly used by hospital employees and medical students.
Tatsuoka mon (龍岡門, Tatsuoka gate)
This gate is located on the southern part of the campus. It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and completed in 1933. The name came from Tatsuoka-cho, the old name of Yushima.
Tetsu mon (The Iron Gate)
The Tetsu gate, used to be the main gate of Hongo Campus. was located at the southern part of the Central Clinical Service Building from 1879 to 1918. Tetsu-mon (鉄門, Iron gate) In 1918 the university purchased some acres of private land outside of Tetsu mon, but was later disposed due to unnecessary reasons of marking off the site of the university by the gate. In May 5, 2006, Tetsu mon was reconstructed at the same location.
Kasuga mon (春日門, Kasuga gate)
The Kasuga gate is located on the south side of the campus, and faces the Kasuga dori. In 2007, the gate was established as a renovation of an existing privy poster.
Nishikata mon (西片門, Nishikata gate)
The Nishikata gate is a small gate completed in 2007. It is located behind the Faculty of Engineering Building 5 and is facing the Hongo dori like the Aka mon and the Main gate. The name of the gate derives from the geographical name of its location. The gate is known to be a "footslogger" for the convenience of entering the engineering department.
Kaitoku mon (懐徳門, Kaitoku gate)
The Kaitoku gate was built near the entrance of the Toei Ōedo Line in 2007. The gate's walls were made with the blocks of Kaitoku-kan.
Head office and Inter-University Research Institute Facilities[edit]
The Tatsuoka-mon (龍岡門, Tatsuoka-gate) and the administration building
Administration Bureau
The Administration bureau building is a 12 floors building designed by Kenzo Tange, and was completed 1979. It is located near the Tatsuoka mon and is used as the head office of the University.
Administration Bureau Building 2
The Administration Bureau Building 2, also designed by Kenzo Tangeand was completed in 1976. The building is located next to the Administration Bureau and has similar design to it. The building was first called Faculty of Science Building 7 and was used for the Mathematics, Science, and Geoscience departments. [1] It is now used as the Administration Bureau, the Graduate School of Public Policy, the study-abroad office, and is a part of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies etc.Yasuda Kodo (安田講堂, Yasuda Auditorium)(a back architecture is the department of science 1st building)
Yasuda Auditorium (formal nomenclature Tokyo Daigaku dai kodo (東京大学大講堂, The Great Hall of The University of Tokyo))
Yasuda Auditorium is a registered tangible cultural heritage building designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida. The auditorium was completed in 1925 for groundbreaking ceremony held in 1925.General Library
The Central Commons was completed in 1976 and is located below the square of the Yasuda Auditorium. It is noted to have the characteristics of a dome-like structure.
Sanjo Conference Hall
The Sanjo Conference Hall was completed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the University in 1986. The Hall was designed by Kunio Maekawa, and contains assembly rooms and a staff cafeteria.
Information Center
The Information Center is a historical architecture designed by Previously built Hideto Kishida and was completed in 1926. It was previously built as a clinic attached to the academic medical center for patients' night visit, but was then remade into an information center.
Communication Center
The Communication Center is the oldest architecture in the Hongo campus was built in 1910 as a garage for jinrikisha. It was face-lifted after the establishment of the Act of National University Corporations.
Kaitoku kan (懐徳館)
Kaitoku Kan was originally the residence of the Maeda' family. Kaitoku Kan includes a Japanese wooden house that was designated by Torazo Kitaza and a western architecture designated by Watanabe in 1907 for the progresses of the Emperor. Due to the land-space exchange with the Tokyo Prefecture (東京府)n 1926, Kaitoku Kan became part of Komaba park, but was then donated to the University of Tokyo. Both of the houses were burned down during the Great Tokyo Air Raids, but the Japanese wooden house was rebuilt in 1951.[1][2]
Gotenshita kinenkan is a gym facility located to the east of the Sanshiro Pond (Ikutokuen). The gym was designed by Shigenobu Ashiwara and was completed in 1988 to celebrate the University's 100th anniversary. It was first called the Hongo Kinen-kan, and was planned to be built on the athletic field in Yayoi campus. It was then decided to be constructed under the Gotenshita Ground. The gym has a swimming pool, gymnasium, training room, rock-climbing wall, and other uses.
Shichitokudo (七徳堂)
Shichitokudo is a martial art gymnasium located on the south side of Goten shita field. It has been designated as a historical architecture selected by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Shichitokudo was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida as a building of Japanese style architecture. Shichitokudo derives from from wǔ yǒu qī dé (武有七徳, the seven rule of war), xuān gōng shí èr nián 「宣公十二年」(xuān gong twenty years) in chūn qiū zuǒ shì『春秋左氏伝』(the commentary for Shun-ju written by zuŏ qiū míng). The term was named by Dr. Atsushi Shionoya, a Professor of Tokyo Imperial University.[1][2]
Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg1 Tokyo University 2010
Faculty of Law & Letters Building 1
The Faculty of Law & Letters Building 1, also known as Ho bun kei ichigo-kan (法文経1号館, the Law-Letters-Econ 1st bldg..), is one of the tangible cultural heritages. It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and was established in 1935. The building is used as the department of economics schoolrooms. The 25th schoolroom located upstairs is large lecture room where lecture meetings and entrance examinations are held.
Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2
The building, designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and was established in 1938, is registered as a tangible cultural heritage. I was formally used as the department of economics schoolrooms and was called Ho-bun-kyo nigoh-kan (法文経2号館, the Law-Letters-Econ 2nd bldg.). The building also has the Ginnan Metoro Shokudo (銀杏・メトロ食堂, Ginnan Metro refectory) (old Daiich Shokudo), and Todai Seikyo daiichi kobai-bu (東大生協第一購買部, The University of Tokyo co-op 1st school store) located underground.
Faculty of Law & Letters Building 3
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and established in 1927. It is registered as a tangible cultural heritage.
Faculty of Law & Letters Building 4
The building was designed by Sachio Otani. It was constructed at the same time as the Faculty of Letters Building 3 and was completed in 1987. The building is located in the west side of the square in front of General Library.
General Research Building
The General Research Building was designed by Humihiko Maki and Maki and Associates and was completed in 2003. The building is mainly used by School of Law Building. [1][2]
The building was completed in 1931, and designed by Yoshikazu Uchida. It was mainly used integrally with Bioscience Research Building which was completed in 2002.
Faculty of Medicine Building 2 (Main Building)
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1936. The office of medical school locates in it.Medical Libraryese1.It was completed as a part of Medical school 100th anniversary celebrations in 1961, afterward it was reinforced against earthquakes in 2008. It is called the central center.
First Research Building and the East Clinical Research Building
Both buildings was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1928.
Clinical Research Center and the Administration & Research Buildings
Both buildings were designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1929.
Reppin-Kan is one of the registered tangible cultural heritage in Japan. It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida, and was completed in 1925. Reppin-Kan was originally built to be an academic museum, but the academic samples has never exhibited them and thus the building is now used as the office of Faculty of Engineering.
Josiah Conder memorial - Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo - DSC04900
Faculty of Engineering Building 1
Faculty of Engineering Bldg.1 Tokyo University 2010
The Faculty of Engineering Building 1 is registered as a tangible cultural heritage that was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1935. The building was constructed from the vacant lot of the engineering faculty administration building that collapsed caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake.In 1998, the old building was completely renovated by Hisao Koyama. The building used to look like a Chinese character 「日」, and the glass roof was covered on the part of quad. It is now used as a drawing room or a library room. A statue of Josiah Conder is located in the forecourt of the building.
Faculty of Engineering Building 2
The Faculty of Engineering Building 2 was designed before the Great Kanto Earthquake by Yoshikazu Uchida. The building was still incomplete during the Great Kanto Earthquake but it was not damaged at all. When the north side older building broke down, the north and south wings were newly constructed, but the side of the building faced Yasuda Auditorium was reserved. Since south wing covered half the inner court, it became half campground, the area was arranged as a community space.
Faculty of Engineering Building 3
The building was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and was completed in 1939. It is used by the department of the Electron-Information and the Institute of Engineering Innovation. The building is scheduled to be rebuilt and integrated with adjacent Faculty of Engineering Building 2. The above-mentioned community space is to be expanded to the Faculty of Engineering Building 3.
Faculty of Engineering Building 4
It is designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1927 and is used mainly by the Faculty of Material Engineering and the Faculty of System Innovation.
Faculty of Engineering Building 5
It was completed in 1961, and is used by the Faculty of Field of Applied Chemistry and the Faculty of the Department of Chemical System Engineering.
Faculty of Engineering Building 6
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and completed in 1940. There were growing concerns about aging and earthquake-resistance strength concerns, in 1997 the ant seismic reinforcement reform was complete and used by the Department of Applied Physics school of Engineering and Department of mathematical Engineering and Information Physics.
Faculty of Engineering Building 11
The Faculty of Engineering Building 11 was designed by Yoshitake Yasumi and completed in 1968. In 2006, earthquake-resistance strength, antiseismic reinforcement construction were made. The building has 9 floors and coated by red exterior tile for the purpose of keeping a consistency with Uchida gothic. It is now used by the department of civil engineering and the department of architecture .
Faculty of Engineering Building 14
The building was designed by Hisao Koyama and was completed in 1998. The Experimental Water Tank It is currently used by the Department of Urban Engineering and the Department of Precision Engineering.
Experimental water tank room
The experimental water tank room is the oldest water tank room among the Universities in Japan and has a high measurement accuray. It was funded by the donation of Kaibo Gikai (海防義会), the extra-government organization of the navy of Empire Japan and was completed in 1937. It has a slender water cistern, 85m in length, 3.5m in breadth, 2.2m depth, and a wave-making device.
Quod vide #Faculty of Law for Faculty of Law & Letters Building 1 and Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2, #Faculty of Economics for Akamon General Research Facility.
Faculty of Letters Building 3
The Faculty of Letters Building 3 was designed by Sachio Otani and completed in 1987. It was constructed in the east of agora in front of the General Library. The building was constructed on the road which connects the Faculty of Medicine Building 2 to the arcade of the Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2.
The Faculty of Science Building 1 was designed by Hideto Kishida, and completed in 1926. It was constructed in the vacant lot of the Department of Science Building that collapsed when the Great Kanto Earthquake struck. Only one part of the first building remains now, and it is planned to be demolished during the construction of the new east wing of the Faculty of Science Building 1. The Faculty of Science Building 1 has an old style elevator which Albert Einstein used in his visit to Japan during the Taisho Period.
Faculty of Science Building 1
The west wing of this building was completed in 1998 and the central wing was completed in 2005. It is planned to build a new east wing where the old Faculty of Science Building 1 is now situated. It is used by physics department, department of astronomy, earth planetary physics department, earth planetary environmentology department and the department of elementary particle physics research center. It is designed for the purpose of keeping a consistency with Uchida gothic. In commemoration of the Nobel Prize-winning by Masatoshi Koshiba, an ex-Professor of department of science, Koshiba hall was established in the University of Tokyo.
Faculty of Science Building 2
The Faculty of Science Building 2 was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and completed in 1934. The building locates near the Aka-mon which is beside the Faculting of Medicine Building 1. The building is currently used by the earth planetary environmentology department.
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Faculty of Science Chemistry East Wing Building
The Faculty of Science Chemistry East Wing Building, also known as the Chemistry administration building or the Kagaku Kyukan, is the oldest school building that was designed by Kokichi Yamaguchi and was established in 1916. Due to the expansion of the school, the chemistry department which was orginally located in the College of Science Administration Building is moved to the Faculty of Science Chemistry West Wing.
Rigaku-bu Kagaku Danchi (理学部化学団地, The chemical apartment complex of department of science｜) is the name of the circularly linked buildings of the Faculty of Science by having The Chemical East Wing→The Chemical Administration Building→The Chemical West Wing→Faculty of Science Bldg.4→Faculty of Science Bldg.7→The Chemical East Wing.
The east wing of chemistry department is designed to be in a classic style. Originally it forms L-shape, it linked at both extremities with other buildings as presented above now. There are plans of redeveloping the Chemistry Building by building high-rise structure, but the east wing is to be reserved.
It was completed in 2003, and pass by the name of Shin-kan (新館, new annex). It is a 14 storeys building that has a community lounge, practice rooms, the Center for Advanced Research in Finance, the Office of Department of Economics, laboratory offices and facilities.
Akamon General Research Building
The Akamon General Research Building, also called Kyu-kan (旧館, old building) or Akamon to (赤門棟)[4] is a building located on the right side of Akamon, and is completed as the administration building of department of Economic in 1965. In 1984, the west wing was built by Hisao Kohyama.
In 2003, the Economics Research Building was completed and most part of Department of Economics was relocated into it. The General Research Building became a shared used department of literature, economic, education and social science [5] On the ground floor there are the bulletin board of the University of Tokyo co-op Akamon shop, the library of Department of Economics, which has an entrance in 3rd floor, and it has a place in a part of eastern edge as a book storeroom now. At the 3rd floor there is accessway with the Economics Research Building.
Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall)
It is located in the vacant lot of the beer garden of Gakusi Kaikan pavilion. The Center for Advanced Research in Finance, the Management Education and Research Center, and the Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy moved from the Economics Research Building to this building.
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies[edit]
Fukutake Hall
It was constructed by the donation of Sohichiroh Fukutake, representative director and CEO of Benesse corporation, in near of Aka-mon and beside the Communication center. It was scheduled to complete in November 2007 but was completed in 26 March 2008 to celebrate the University’s 130th anniversary. The building was the first architecture of which Tadao Ando, a special honorary professor, has designed in University of Tokyo. Due to the environmental surroundings, half of the building is underground.
The building was used as a temporary enclosure of construction field, the art project Thinking Forest supported by TOPPAN which teacher and graduate student of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies participated.[1][2]
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and complicated in 1937. It is a main gate of Yayoi campus.It was reformed in 23 March 2003, the gate lamp was restored to original state in 2005. In addition Yayoi gate belongs Hongo campus, it is out of relation to it.
Faculty of Agriculture Building 1
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1930. It is located on the right side of main gate.
Faculty of Agriculture Building 2
It was designed by Shodo Uchida, and completed in 1936. It is located on the left side of main gate, and it forms pair with the Faculty of Agriculture Building 1.
Faculty of Agriculture Building 3
It was selected by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1941. It is located in the front of main gate. The office is located in building 3. There are stores and a cafeteria of the University of Tokyo Co-op in the basement.[1][2]
It is located on the south of Asano campus. It was constructed with donation from Ikuo Takeda, founder of the Advantest Corporation (ex-Takeda Riken Industry Co., Ltd) in 2003. It is the first building on the campus named for an individual person, as, for example, Yasuda Auditorium is not a formal title. The Takeda building houses the Graduate School of Engineering and the VLSI Design and Education Center.
