Noma dojo

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Noma Dojo (野間道場 Noma Dōjō) is a privately owned kendo training hall, or dojo, located in Tokyo's Bunkyo ward close to Gokoku-ji. Noma Dojo was established in 1925 by Seiji Noma, founder of the Kodansha publishing house, and has long been one of the most celebrated kendo dōjō in Japan. Core elements of the hall date from an Edo period dōjō previously located at a different site and it is the only surviving example of its type.

In an article in Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun published on September 15, 2006, former Kodansha chairman Toshiyuki Hattori wrote that the publishing house had decided to demolish Noma Dojo sometime in 2007, as part of a redevelopment of the company compound in which the hall stands. In February 2007, a company spokesperson said no final decision on the hall's fate had been made.