The University of Tokyo is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct predecessors include the Tenmongata and the Shoheizaka Institute.
Asakusa Observatory of the Tenmongata by Hokusai
Akamon (the Red Gate), built in 1827
University of Tokyo students (Kume, Matsuoka, Akutagawa and Naruse), circa 1916.
The University of Tokyo suffered immense damage in the Great Earthquake of 1923
Bunkyō is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there. Bunkyō is home to the Tokyo Dome, Judo's Kōdōkan, and the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus. Bunkyō has a sister-city relationship with Kaiserslautern in the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany.
Tokyo Dome
Denzū-in
Aerial view of Bunkyo (southwest)
Akamon gate at the University of Tokyo