Campus of the University of Tokyo

Tokyo University is the first modern Japanese university. It is of historical note for two reasons. First, it was not damaged by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake nor by air raids during World War II. Second, many university buildings have been declared National Treasures of Japan as they are examples of historic architectural design. This article focus on registered cultural heritage.[1][2]

Hongo Campus

The Hongo campus has many historic buildings including the Yasuda Auditorium, the first registered tangible cultural heritage in Tokyo. The front gate, including the porter's lodge, the Faculty of Law & Letters Buildings 1, 2 and 3, the Faculty of Engineering (Reppin-kan) and the Faculty of Engineering Building 1 are all also examples of registered cultural heritage. All campus buildings, except for the front gate, were designed by Yoshikazu Uchida in the Gothic style known as Uchida Gothic. One of the most notable examples of this style is the Faculty of Medicine Building 3, the administration building for Medicine; however, there are many other Uchida Gothics on campus.[1] [2] [3]

Gates

The Front Gate, completed in 1912 and designed by Chuta Ito, is located in the western part of the campus facing Hongo dori.
The Red Gate is located in the southwest of the campus and faces Hongo dori. It is often mistaken for the Main Gate and so the University of Tokyo is commonly called the Aka mon.
The Goshuden Gate is located in Kami yashiki (上屋敷 , which is close to the Edo Castle), the compound which was owned by the domain lord of the Maeda clan. The gate was constructed at the time of the marriage ceremony of Yasu-hime (溶姫), a princess of the eleventh tycoon Tokugawa Ienari (徳川家斉), to Maeda Nariyasu (前田斉泰 name of 12th lord), the twelfth lord of the Maeda clan, in 1827. The architectural style of the gate is Yakui mon. The gate has hafu (破風 gable) gable roofed guard stations. It has been assigned as an important cultural property and was designated as a national heritage.
The Ikeno-hata gate is located in the eastern part of the campus and faces Shinobazu street. This gate is near the Yokoyama Taikan memorial house and the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden. This gate allows access to both the Ueno Station and the Yushima station. The gate is mainly used by hospital employees and medical students.
This gate is located on the southern part of the campus and was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and completed in 1933. The name came from Tatsuoka-cho, the old name of Yushima. Tetsu mon (鉄門 Iron gate) is very close to the Tatsuoka gate so most people confuse the two names of Tatsuoka mon with Tetsu mon. The nearby medical school of the University of Tokyo goes by the name of Tetsu mon, hence it was named as Tetsu mon in error.
The Tetsu gate was located at the southern part of the Central Clinical Service Building from 1879 to 1918. In 1918 the university purchased some acres of private land outside of Tetsu mon. This land was later desposed of because there was no need to mark off the site of the university by the gate. The Tetsu mon that exists today was reconstructed on May 5, 2006 at the same location. Before the current gate was in place, the Tetsu mon was specified as the main gate of Hongo Campus". Since the former admissions building of the Medical School is located near the gate, the name of Tetsu mon became synonymous with the University of Tokyo Medical school or the alumnus of it. Today the Tetsu mon kinen kan (鉄門記念館 Tetsu mon gate memorial hall) is used for commemorative purposes .
The Kasuga gate is located on the south side of the campus, and faces the Kasuga dori. The gate was renovated in 2007.
The Nishikata gate was completed in 2007, and is located at the northwestern part of campus and faces the Hongo dori as do the Aka mon and the Main gate. The Niskikata gate is a particularly small gate and is located behind the Faculty of Engineering Building 5. The gate is only used by pedestrians going to the engineering department, as previously pedestrians had to go through the main gate of the Yayoi gate which was a rather cumbersome route to take. The name of the gate derives from its geographical location.
The Kaitoku gate was finished in 2007 and was built near the entrance of the Toei Ōedo Line. The gate is close to the "University Museum of the University of Tokyo" and the "Faculty of Science Building 2". The gate's walls were made with the blocks of Kaitoku-kan.

Head office and University Research Institute Facilities

The Administration bureau building was designed by Kenzo Tange, and was built in 1979. It is located near the Tatsuoka mon and, as its name suggests, it is used as the head office of the University. The building has 12 floors, which was uncommon for 1979.
The second Administration building was finished in 1976 as a Faculty of Science Building 7, and was also designed by Kenzo Tange. The building is situated next to the Administration Bureau, and its design is analogous to it. At first the building was used for the Mathematics, Science, and Geo science departments. After the Mathematics department moved to the Mathematical Science Building in the "Komaba I" Campus and the Geo science department's relocated to Building 1, it became the Administration Bureau Building 2.[1] Today it is 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 Auditorium is a registered tangible cultural heritage building. The auditorium held a groundbreaking ceremony in 1925 that was completed the same year. The designers were Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida.
When the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake struck, the old brick library burned down and a new library was constructed with donations from the Rockefeller Foundation.[1] It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and finished in 1928. The rebuilt library has not been designated as a registered tangible cultural heritage building.
After World War II, in order to house several newly created departments and research institutes, the south side of the campus was expanded with new buildings for the Faculty of Education, the old Information Technology Center, the Institute of Social Science and the Historiographer Institute. The extension was built in the Uchida Gothic style.
The Central Commons was completed in 1976 and is located below the square of the Yasuda Auditorium. It has the characteristics of a domal structure.
The Sanjo Conference Hall was completed as part of the centenary anniversary celebrations of the University in 1986. The Hall was designed by Kunio Maekawa, and contains assembly rooms and a staff cafeteria. Near the Tatsuoka gate is the Sanjo Conference Hall Tatsuokamon Annex.
Originally built as the night clinic attached to the academic medical center and to house the medical association office the building was converted into the Information Center. It is located on the Tatsuoka mon side of the center. It was completed in 1926, and designed by Hideto Kishida. In 2003, it was designated as a historical architecture selected by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
The center was built in 1910 as a garage for jinrikisha, but it was refurbished after the establishment of the Act of National University Corporations. It is the oldest building in the Hongo campus, however the oldest school building is the Chemistry Building. Within the University of Tokyo campus it stands as the oldest piece of architecture next to the University Museum Koishikawa Annex.
Originally Kaitoku Kan was the residence of the Maeda' family. In 1905, the Japanese wooden house was designated by Torazo Kitazawa and was completed under the patronage of the Emperor. In 1907, western architecture, designated by Torazo Kitazawa was completed. In 1926, by the land-space exchange with the Tokyo Prefecture (東京府), the residence and site of the Agricultural Department in Komaba. Kaitoku Kan is a part of Komaba park, but was donated to the University of Tokyo. Both of the houses were burned down at Great Tokyo Air Raids, but the Japanese wooden house was rebuilt in 1951. Some of the buildings in the Hongo campus used the blocks from the burned western architecture style house.[1][2]

Gymnasium Facilities

Gotenshita kinenkan is a gym facility located to the east of the Sanshiro Pond (Ikutokuen). The gym was completed in 1988 as a part of the centenary anniversary celebrations and it was designed by Shigenobu Ashiwara. The provisional title is Hongo Kinen-kan, at first it was planned to be built by the athletic field in Yayoi campus. After the gym's plans were changed the facility was constructed under the Gotenshita Ground. The gym has a swimming pool, gymnasium, training room, rock-climbing wall, and other facilities.
The university bureau had decided to renovate the institution next to the athletic field, rather than replace it with the Gym; The Institution was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and constructed in 1933. It serves as poling board and the entrance to the Chemistry Building and the mall. Later it was decided to demolish the institution because of signs of distress shown on the building and the Student Counseling Center (Auditorium) was built on its site.
Shichitokudo is a martial arts gymnasium located on the south side of the Goten shita field which is near the Medical Library. 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. The origin of the name was derived 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, Professor of Tokyo Imperial University.[1][2]

Faculty of Law

It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and established in 1935. It is used as a schoolroom for the department of economics, and is called Ho bun kei ichigo-kan (法文経1号館 the Law-Letters-Econ 1st bldg..). It is a registered tangible cultural heritage. The 25th schoolroom located upstairs is large lecture room where meetings are held and is also used as for entrance examinations.The schoolroom is known as the locale of Todai Poporo incident. The office of faculty of law locates in Faculty of Law & Letters Building 1.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and established in 1938, and is a registered tangible cultural heritage. As formally it is used as a schoolroom of department of economics, it was called Ho-bun-kyo nigoh-kan (法文経2号館 the Law-Letters-Econ 2nd bldg.).
The Law-Letters-Econ 1st bldg. and the Law-Letters-Econ 2nd bldg. are display bilateral symmetry across the street which reaches the Yasuda Auditorium, and has outdated arcade which across the both buildings at right angle with the street. It has Uchida gothic's true value.The Colonnade is decorated by ancient Greece style carving, and is plush beyond our wildest imagination now. The underground of Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2, there are 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). The office of the department of literature is located in it.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and established in 1927. It is a registered tangible cultural heritage.
It was completed in 1987 and designed by Sachio Otani. It is the building located on the west side of the square in front of the General Library, it is situated nearer left to General Library, was constructed at the same time as Faculty of Letters Building 3.
It was completed in 2003 and is located side of the main gate. It is mainly used by School of Law Building and is characterized by full-height glazing. The architect was Humihiko Maki and Maki and Associates.[1][2]

Medical School

It was completed in 1931, and designed by Yoshikazu Uchida. Nowadays it was used integrally with Bio science Research Bldg. it was completed in 2002.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1936. The office of medical school is located there. Medical Library 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.
Both buildings are designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1928.
Both buildings were designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1929.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida, and completed in 1925. It is said that it has architectural characteristic of expressive subject.

Faculty of Engineering

It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida, and it was completed in 1925. It is a registered tangible cultural heritage. It was planned as a museum to exhibit academic sample at first, but later used as the office of Faculty of Engineering.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1935, and is a registered tangible cultural heritage. It was constructed on the vacant lot of the engineering faculty administration building that collapsed by the Great Kanto Earthquake. Because the building became too old, it was renovated completely based on design of　Hisao Koyama in 1998. Originally the building took a form of Chinese character 「日」, the glass roof was covered on the part of quad, and it is used as drawing room or library room now. In the forecourt there is the statue of Josiah Conder. It is used by the Department of Civil Engineering for architectural course.
A part of the old wing of Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2 was the first architectural structure which Yoshikazu Uchida designed. It was designed before the Great Kanto Earthquake, and differed slightly from the Uchida Gothic, for example the color of tile. The front of the building was incomplete at the Great Kanto Earthquake but it was not damaged, the restoration plans was left entirely to Uchida. Ihe front office of the University was set up for a while in another building.
Afterwaeds the north side older building was pulled down and the newly constructed north wing (tall structure), the side of the building faced Yasuda Auditorium was reserved, and above it the south wing (tall structure) was constructed.The south wing was sustained by pillar of patio in the older building. In original plan, it was scheduled to be pulled down and reconstructed, for the sake of preservation of historical architecture, the plan was changed to preserve it. As the south wing covered half the inner court, it became half campground, the area was arranged as community space, and Subway (restaurant) was opened.
It is used by the department and major of the Machine, Electron and Information.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1939 and is used by the department of the Electron-Information and the Institute of Engineering Innovation.
It 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.
It is designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1927 and used mainly by the Faculty of Material Engineering and the Faculty of System Innovation.
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.
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.
It was designed by Yoshitake Yasumi and completed in 1968.It was build at a time when high rise is in vogue and has 9 floors and red tile exterior in keeping a consistency with Uchida Gothic. Earthquake-resistance strength, anti seismic reinforcement construction was completed in 2006. It is used by the department of civil engineering and the department of architecture.
It was designed by Hisao Koyama and completed in 1998. It is used by the Department of Urban Engineering and the Department of Precision Engineering.　
It was completed by the donation of Kaibo Gikai (海防義会), the extra-government organization of the navy of Empire Japan, in 1937. It has a slender water cistern, 85 m in length, 3.5 m in breadth, 2.2 m depth, and a wave-making device. Although the tank is compact as experimental water tank for ships, but it is longest-established it in the Universities of Japan and it has high measurement accuracy. On the second floor there is a part of the research department of systematization.

Department of Literature

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.
It was designed by Sachio Otani and completed in 1987. It was constructed in the east of agora in front of the General Library, which is situated on right of the General Library. In view of these facts it was constructed on the road which leads to the Faculty of Medicine Building 2 from the arcade of the Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2. For example adopting a similar arch to the Faculty of Law & Letters Building 2, it was designed to maintain harmony with the surroundings.

Faculty of Science

It 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. It had an architectural expressionistic character same as that of the south side of the Central Clinical Service Building. With the construction of the first Building it was partly demolished. Only one part of it remains now, and is planned that it would be pulled down when the construction of new east wing faculty of Science Building 1 is completed. There is old style elevator which Albert Einstein used during his visit to Japan in Taisho Period.
In 1998 the west wing of this building was completed and in 2005 the central wing was completed and it is planned to build a new east wing where the old Faculty of Science Building 1 is now situated. However, as of June 2011 building work had not started. It is at times called Shin ichigo-kan (the new building) for old building. It is used by physics department, department of astronomy, earth planetary physics department, earth planetary environmental department and the department of elementary particle physics research center. The office of the department of science is located in the ground floor of the west wing. It is designed in keeping a consistency with Uchida gothic, but as it is a high-rise building, it is usually said that it spoil the view. In commemoration of Nobel Prize-winning by Masatoshi Koshiba, ex-Professor of department of science, Koshiba hall was established in the University of Tokyo.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida and completed in 1934. Many buildings of department of science center around Yasuda Auditorium，but it locates near Aka-mon. It forms pair with the Faculty of Medicine Bldg.1. It is used by the biology department, formally was used by the Faculties of geological science, mineralogy, and geography, they are the earth planetary environmental department now.
It was completed in 1916, before the Great Kanto Earthquake struck, hence older than gothic style building cluster. It is the earliest school building. It was designed by Kokichi Yamaguchi, and in 1984 carpentry work was done. It is located near the bus stop Todai konai.
Originally chemical school is located in the College of Science Administration Building, as referred to above it is located in the point of Faculty of Science Building 1, for the purpose of expansion an original new school building was constructed. That's the Chemical west wing as we know it today. For the reason that the expansion of the scale of the Faculty of Chemical, the administration building and the West wing were built in 1983, they are used in a unified manner. Whereas the chemical west wing, formally named as the Chemical administration building, and the chemical east wing was called as Kagaku Kyukan too. Above all these three building, the Faculty of Science Building 4, and the Faculty of Science Building 7 of Faculty of Chemical School are located in order as follows.
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
It is circularly linked, and it is collectively called Rigaku-bu Kagaku Danchi (理学部化学団地 The chemical apartment complex of department of science｜).
The east wing of chemistry department has classic style, and it is unique in the Hongo campus, which has many Uchida gothic style buildings.Originally it forms L-shape, it linked at both extremities with other buildings as presented above now. The gate facing the road has a bus stop, but remains shut, the visitor enter from the entrance of Chemistry Building or Faculty of Science Building 7. In the future there are plans to redevelop the area of Chemistry Building and build high-rise structure, but the east wing is to be reserved.

Faculty of Economics

Economics Research Bldg.
It was completed in 2003, and named Shin-kan (新館 new annex). A 14 story building, the ground floor has a community lounge, on the first basement level. second and third floor are practice rooms on fourth floor there is Center for Advanced Research in Finance. The Office of department of economics on 5 floor. 7 to 14 floor are laboratory office and adjunct facility. On the ground floor there is a computer lab, in the lounge students chat, read books, and study.
It is a building located on the right side of Akamon, and is completed as the administration building of department of Economic in 1965. Earlier, it was called Department of Economic new building, hence the General Research Building was newly constructed and named Kyu-kan (旧館 old building) or Akamon to (赤門棟).[4] In 1984 the west wing was build by Hisao Kohyama. Before the administration building was constructed, there was a hill called Tsubaki-yama (椿山).
In 2003 the Economics Research Building was completed and most part of Department of Economics was relocated into it. The administration building of Department of Economics was renovated, and it became the general research center shared by the department of literature, economic, education and social science. Although the renovation aimed anti seismic reinforcement, at the same time the undergoing landscape restoration with surrounding Uchida gothic buildings, such as Faculty of Medicine Building 2.[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. The 3rd floor also has access to the Economics Research Building.
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 are due to move from Economics Research Building to this building.

Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies

It was constructed by donation of Sohichiroh Fukutake, representative director and CEO of Benesse corporation, near Aka-mon and beside the Communication center. It was scheduled completion in November 2007, but was completed by 26 March 2008. It was completed as a part of the 130th anniversary celebrations, and was designed by Tadao Ando, special honorary professor, who also has designed University of Tokyo. In consideration of the environmental surroundings, half of the buildings is underground.
Used the temporary enclosure of construction field, the art project Thinking Forest supported by TOPPAN teacher and student of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies participated.[1][2]

Yayoi campus

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 to Hongo campus.
It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and completed in 1930. It is located on the right side of main gate.
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.
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. The basement has co-op stores and cafeteria.[1][2]

Asano campus

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 after 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.

See also

Note

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 東京大学出版会編 1960 『東京大学:その百年』 東京大学出版会
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 寺崎昌男 2007 『東京大学の歴史 大学制度の先駆け』 講談社
  3. ↑ 木下直之 2005 『東京大学本郷キャンパス案内』 東京大学出版会
  4. ↑ However in the Economic school handbook, the area of 7 and 6 floor are indicated as Bekkan (別館 annex)
  5. ↑ See

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