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Kashiwa campus is the newest of the three main campuses of The University of Tokyo in addition to campuses at
Hongo and Komaba, and was established with the vision of building a new community with a strong interdisciplinary
and international character that can respond to the dynamic scientiﬁc and educational needs of the 21st Century.
Hongo campus, the core of traditional academic activities at The University of Tokyo since its foundation in 1877, andKomaba campus, focusing on undergraduate studies and building interdisciplinary links between established ﬁelds ofstudy for over 60 years, have longstanding academic traditions. The Kashiwa campus recently joined this family andaims at a fundamental reorganization of the structure of traditional academic disciplines, reconsidering the frameworkof how knowledge is created and organized. Under the slogan of “Adventures in Knowledge”, the Kashiwa campus has
started various new initiatives.
The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS) consists of three divisions each with relevant departments: Divisionof Transdisciplinary Sciences, Division of Biosciences, and Division of Environmental Studies. GSFS aims to create
new frontiers of academic ﬁelds. The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) is exploring a wide variety of phenomena
exhibited by various materials from the viewpoint of basic science using state-of-art experimental facilities andtechniques. Materials under study include those forming the basis of today's high-tech society and its future
development.
The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) is pursuing the origins of the universe and matter through research on
cosmic rays. The Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI) not only promotes basic research on the ocean andatmosphere, but also contributes to society through deepening ocean and climate science. The University of Tokyo
Institutes for Advanced Study, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe（Kavli IPMU）pursues thedeep mysteries of the universe through the integration of Physics and Mathematics. Other departments include RACE
(Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), the Center for Spatial Information Science, the Kashiwa Branch of theEnvironmental Science Center, the Information Technology Center, the Institute of Gerontology and the Kashiwa Library.
As the names suggest, these facilities bring together people from a wide variety of research ﬁelds. As an important partof facilitating communication between research ﬁelds, the Kashiwa campus also has a strong international character,promoting international contacts and the exchange of ideas from around the world. Through the facilities that exist
now or will be built in the near future, the Kashiwa campus has excellent coverage of many of the new ﬁelds of sciencethat have growing importance in shaping our lives in the 21st Century. Abandoning the constraints of traditional waysof organizing science, Kashiwa campus has quickly responded to the continuously evolving frontiers of science in an
increasingly global and dynamic society by building new interdisciplinary research facilities and seeding new academic
ﬁelds. These achievements will make the “adventures in knowledge” in Kashiwa possible.

Growth of the Kashiwa Campus
In 1998, The University of Tokyo established a new campus about 30 km northeast of Tokyo located in Chiba prefecture,in the northern part of Kashiwa city, adjoining Kashiwanoha Park, and the University has consolidated several academic
and research units since then. At the beginning of 2011, the total number of faculties, graduate students, and researchersat the Kashiwa campus exceeded 3,000.
Relocated in 2000

2011

● Institute for Cosmic Ray Research● Institute for Solid State Physics● Division of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences● Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences● Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering● Center for Spatial Information Science● High Temperature Plasma Center[incorporated into Graduate School of Frontier Sciences in 2008]● Center for Climate System Research[Consolidation of the Ocean Research Institute and Center for Climate System
Research into the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute in 2010]● Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences● Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe[established in 2007, reorganized into Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, IPMU in 2011,
renamed Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in 2012,
renamed The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, Kavli Institute for
the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in 2015]● Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute[Consolidation of the Ocean Research Institute and Center for Climate System Research
into the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute in 2010]● Information Technology Center

2000
2003
2004

Support facilities in Kashiwa● Health Services Center Kashiwa Branch● Environmental Science Center, Kashiwa Branch● Kashiwa Library

2001
2003
2005

2006
2007

2010

FoundedOutline of The University of Tokyo
Established:1877 (Departments of Law, Science, Literature, and Medicine)
President:
Makoto Gonokami
Teaching/research organizations: 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools, 11 institutes, 15 shared facilities
Campuses:
Hongo (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
559,176m2
Komaba (Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
352,180m2
Kashiwa (Kashiwa, Chiba)
405,313m2

2(from Tanashi campus)(from Roppongi campus)(from Hongo campus)(from Hongo campus)(from Komaba campus)(from Komaba campus)(from Hongo campus)(from Komaba campus)(from Hongo campus)(from Nakano campus)(from Hongo campus)

■ Kashiwa Campus Management
The Kashiwa Campus Joint Academic Management
Council was established as an organization for
discussing and deciding matters regarding academic
management common to all Departments on the
Kashiwa Campus.

Kashiwa Campus Joint Academic Management Council
Kashiwa Campus Amenity Oﬃce
Kashiwa Campus Liaison Oﬃce

Its role is to deal with
(1) Matters referred to the Council by Departmentsin the Kashiwa Campus(2) Other matters regarding academic management
common to all these Departments

Kashiwa Campus Health and Safety Oﬃce

■ The people that make up the Kashiwa campus
Number of faculty and staﬀ
Classiﬁcation

Number of graduate students and research students

Faculty / Researchers Technical personnel Administrative staﬀ

Total

Master Course Doctoral Course

Full- Fixed- Part- Full- Fixed- Part- Full- Fixed- Part- Full- Fixed- Parttime term time time term time time term time time term time

GSFS

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

181

94

64

0

0

38

22

20 126 203 114 228 545 888

Institute for Cosmic Ray Research

37

26

0

8

0

21

8

5

20

53

31

41 12530

0Institute for Solid State Physics

83

61

5

31

0

17

12

3

45 12664

67 257

35

42

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute

66

50

12

15

0

35

18

6

46

99

56

93 24851

Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering

8

3

1

0

0

3

0

1

6

8

4

10

22

Center for Spatial Information Science

13

9

7

0

0

4

0

0

4

13

9

15

37

Environmental Science Center, Kashiwa Branch

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

2

0

1

3

Information Technology Center

2

2

0

2

0

0

0

1

1

4

3

1

8

Kavli Institute for the Physics andMathematics of the Universe, UTIAS

8

71

4

0

0

2

9

12

15

17

83

21 121

Institute of Gerontology

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

2

4

6

Future Center Initiative

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

1

4

5

Health Services Center, Kashiwa Branch

0

0

0

2

0

1

1

0

0

3

0

1

4

International Center, Kashiwa Oﬃce

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

1

0

2

1

3

5

0

1

5

0

1

6

0

4

8

0

25

53

Kashiwa Library

0

0

0

0

0

0

Research Center Support Oﬃce / Kashiwa

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

4

4

Kashiwa Administration Department Center

0

0

3

0

0

5

28

0

17

28

400 31997

58

0 126 107

Total

Others

GSFS
498

Total

GSFS
30

GSFS
1,416

22

0

0

52

0

42

25

1

1

78

68

15

54

13

1

1 106

29

28

0

7

0

2

0

37

0

19

29

9

13

0

1

28

43

632

50 294 565 369 517 1,451 1,051

34

1,717

*Number of faculty and students are the numbers as of May 1st, 2015.

■ People who make up The University of Tokyo(38,465)■ People who make up Kashima Campus(2,651)
others 1％others 4％
Doctoral course
students
15％
Master course
students
18％

Teaching staﬀ
15％

Doctoral course
students
24％

Administrative
staﬀ 12％

Undergradutestudents
36％

Teaching staﬀ
27％

Master course
students
40％*All numbers as of May 1, 2015.
*517 part-time staﬀs not included.
*Others are specialists and researchers.

3

0

0

Administrative
staﬀ 8％

Facilities at the Kashiwa campus■ Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS)■ Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP)〇 Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences

Research Divisions

Department of Advanced Materials Science

Division of New Materials Science

Department of Advanced Energy

Division of Condensed Matter Theory

Department of Complexity Science and Engineering

Division of Nanoscale Science
Division of Physics in Extreme Conditions〇 Division of Biosciences

Research Facilities

Department of Integrated Biosciences〇 Materials Design and Characterization Laboratory

Department of Computational Biology and Medical〇 Neutron Science Laboratory

Sciences〇 International MegaGauss Science Laboratory〇 Division of Environmental Studies〇 Center of Computational Materials Science

Department of Natural Environmental Studies〇 Laser and Synchrotron Research Center

Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment
Department of Environment Systems■ Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI)

Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies

Research Divisions

Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies

Division of Climate System Research

Department of International Studies

Department of Climate System Modeling

Graduate Program in Sustainability Science-Global

Department of Climate Variability Research

Leadership Initiative

Division of Ocean-Earth System Science〇 Research Center for Total Life Health and Sports Sciences

Department of Physical Oceanography（Kashiwa Ⅱ campus）

Department of Chemical Oceanography〇 Center for Omics and Bioinformatics

Department of Ocean Floor Geoscience〇 Bioimaging Center

Division of Marine Life Science〇 Functional Proteomics Center

Department of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics〇 UTokyo-JAXA Center for Composites

Department of Marine Bioscience
Department of Living Marine Resources■ Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR)
Research Divisions

Department of Collaborative Research

Neutrino and Astroparticle DivisionHigh Energy Cosmic Ray Division

Research Centers

Astrophysics and Gravity Division〇 International Coastal Research Center

Research Facilities〇 Center for International Collaboration○ Kamioka Observatory (Kamioka-cho, Hida City, Gifu)〇 Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics○ Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos○ Analytical Center for Environmental Study○ Norikura Observatory (Takayama City, Gifu)○ Akeno Observatory (Hokuto City, Yamanashi)Transdisciplinary Sciences, GSFS

Biosciences, GSFS

Environmental Studies, GSFS

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Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR)

Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP)■ Research into Artifacts，Center for Engineering
Division of Human-Artifactology
Division of Socio-Artifactology

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute(AORI)■ Center for Spatial Information Science
Division of Spatial Information Analysis
Division of Spatial Information Engineering
Division of Spatial Socio-Economic Research
Division of Joint Usage and Research■ Institute of Gerontology (IOG)
The Institute of Gerontology is a multi-disciplinary research
institute which aims to first collect and organize the various
knowledge and technology regarding individual as well as aging
population into the science of “Gerontology”, and then further thisscience. The mission of IOG is to confront the various challenges
facing an aging society from a multi-disciplinary perspective
and oﬀer new, viable solutions thereby eﬀectively using what islearned, adding value, and returning it back into society.

■ Environmental Science Center, Kashiwa Branch
Kashiwa Branch of the Environmental Science Center performs
both research and education on environmental conservation andsafety management. It also supervises management, treatment,
and disposal of hazardous wastes generated on Kashiwa Campus.

■ Future Center Initiative
Future Center Initiative facilitates a commercialization of research
products of the University of Tokyo through social experiments
in Kashiwa area. Kashiwanoha Campus Station Satellite is used as
an interchanging facility of academic and private organizations.

■ Information Technology Center(Joint Usage/Research Center, MEXT)
The Information Technology Center (ITC) is one of thelargest supercomputer centers in Japan. ITC operates two
supercomputers with more than 1,500 users, where 50% of themare outside of the university. ITCʼs main mission is providing
services to support these users. Research and education related
to large-scale scientific simulations, and system software onsupercomputers are conducted.

■ International Center Kashiwa Oﬃce,
Division of International Aﬀairs
The International Center Kashiwa Office provides a variety ofservices to support internationalization of Kashiwa Campus suchas providing information on visa procedures and life in Japan, andarranging language classes and cultural exchange events.
■ Division for Health Service Promotion（Kashiwa Health Service Center）
The Kashiwa Health Service Center provides health management
services and medical care for the students, faculties, andresearchers at the Kashiwa campus.

■ Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe(Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced
Study (UTIAS)
Kavli IPMU, selected by MEXT for the World Premier International
Research Center Initiative, is a multi-disciplinary research
institute aiming at studying dark energy, dark matter, and uniﬁed
theories (such as superstring theories and quantum gravity). The
mission of Kavli IPMU is to understand the origin and evolution of
the universe through synergetic eﬀorts in mathematics, physics,
and astronomy.

Kashiwa Research Complex

University of Tokyo KashiwaⅡ Campus■ Kashiwa Library
Kashiwa Library is the central library on the Kashiwa Campus,
one integral part of the tripolar structure of the Universityof Tokyo. It assists the realization of the “Multidisciplinary
Integ rat ion”, the fundamental principle of the Kashiwa
Campus, providing access to and help in finding by academic
information. It also aims to be a research center and a place toadvance multidisciplinary integration, intellectual creation, andcommunicating creative information.

Kashiwa Research Complex2

Kashiwanoha Campus Station
Satellite

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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematicsof the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The Universityof Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS)

Kashiwa Library

Community partnerships, industry-academia cooperation,and international activities at the Kashiwa campus
The spirit of transdisciplinarity is the driving force in new industry creation and urban revitalization based on thecollaboration of Chiba Prefecture, Kashiwa City, Nagareyama City, and The University of Tokyo that has brought an academic
center, Kashiwa campus, back to the regional community. The University actively promotes the transfer of technology toindustry, and is making great strides in internationalizing the campus.
■ Open Campus
An open campus program is held on the last Friday and Saturday ofOctober every year. Some 5,000 people participate in open campus
events that include visiting research laboratories and touring large-scale
experiment facilities.
■ Kashiwa Library Club
Kashiwa Library Club is an group for supporting activities of the Kashiwa
Library in The University of Tokyo, and also for promoting exchanges
between the members and additionally between the members and thelibrary staﬀs. Anyone who agrees with the purpose of the club, is eligible
for member-ship exception of high school students or younger children.
The club members may borrow open-stack books, and will also receive
announcements of library events by mail.

Open Campus■ Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha (UDCK)
Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha was established as a joint research
center of The University of Tokyo, Chiba University, Kashiwa City, Mitsui
Fudosan Co., Ltd., The Kashiwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry,and regional community (Tanaka regional Furusato committee),andMetropolitan Intercity Railway Company. It is located in front of
Kashiwanoha Campus Station, and operates pilot programs and seminars
based on research achievements and ideas from the universities.
■ Public Lectures
With the cooperation of Kashiwa City and the Kashiwa Chamber ofCommerce and Industry, The University holds lectures open to the public,
inviting Nobel Prize winners and other notable speakers.

Kashiwa Library

Open Campus

Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha (UDCK)6

■ University Consortium Tokatsu
University Consortium Tokatsu was founded to promote further
development of the Tokatsu area in collaboration with Kashiwa
and four other nearby cities and eleven universities. It consistsof three actively operating sections: “Internationalization”,“Teganuma Lake”, and “Learning and Practice”. The University ofTokyo participates as a member.

■ Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza
Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza is the prefectural complex facility
for lifelong learning as well as art and culture. The Universityof Tokyo sends a lecturer for their Kashiwanoha Academia
Lecture, and also provides lectures and the tours about advanced
technologies and environment concerns.

■ Cooperation with the Tokatsu Techno Plaza
Tokatsu Techno Plaza, established by Chiba prefecture, is anorganization that provides support for corporate researchand development in the prefecture. The University of Tokyo
participates in the following projects:
・University Research Exchange Salon
At this workshop, researchers from the University among others
provide lectures and consultation to people from the corporate
and government sectors about new technology and new productdevelopment. The University of Tokyo sends a lecturer andconsultant to this workshop.
・Summer Science ClassThis class educates children on different views of science, andteaches the importance and joy of making things with their hands.
The University of Tokyo sends an instructor to this class.

■ Cooperation with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency
A Researcher-in-Residence from The Center for Computational
Science & e-Systems at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is always
on the Kashiwanoha Station Campus and promotes joint researchon high technology computational science toward complexity
phenomena of materials, structures, and ﬂuids. The University ofTokyo cooperates in growing human resources in supercomputing
and its application ﬁelds.
■ International Exchange Activities
The Kashiwa Campus is deﬁned as the international base of The
University of Tokyo. The International Center Kashiwa Officeassists to students and researchers from abroad concerning visa
procedures, housing information, and a variety of other services aswell as acting as a contact to regional municipalities. Additionally,
the International Lodge (Kashiwa Lodge) opened on Kashiwa
Campus II in 2010. The University is planning the developmentof an “international village for all disciplines”. The idea is that
foreign students and researchers from all over the world cometogether to exchange ideas and learn in an environment wherelearning and living in the same place.

■ Cooperation with the Todai Kashiwa Venture PlazaThe Todai Kashiwa Venture Plaza was established by theOrganization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional
Innovation Japan. It provides support to small and medium
venture firms that aim to research and develop new products
and new technology or to enter new technology ﬁelds based onuniversity discoveries and inventions. The University of Tokyo
cooperates with many of the ﬁrms involved.

Joint Research on High Technology Computational Science with the Japan
Atomic Energy Agency

Kabuki Event for International Students and Researchers (National Theater)

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Map of the Kashiwa Campus, The Unibersity of Tokyo○ Computational Biology Laboratory, GSFS
○ Center for Omics and Bioinformatics○ Kashiwa Cosmology Information
Center, Kavli IPMU
○ Information Technology Center○ Institute of Gerontology (IOG)○ Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering○ Center for Spatial Information Science○ Computational Biology
and Medical Sciences, GSFS
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Access to the Kashiwa Campus Ⅱ○ Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit (Tsukuba Express Line)<Tobu Bus>
西柏02 bound for Kashiwa Station West Exit or 西柏05 for Takada-shako→ get oﬀ at Kashiwanoha Park-chuo, Kashiwanoha high school-mae stop
<on foot> about 15-minute walk○ Kashiwa Station West Exit (JR Joban Line)<Tobu Bus>
西柏01 bound for National Cancer Center (via Kashiwanoha Park)→ get oﬀ at Kashiwanoha high school-mae stop
西柏02 bound for Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit or 柏44 for National Cancer Center(via Customs Training Institute)→ get oﬀ at Kashiwanoha high school-mae, Kashiwanoha Park-chuo stop

Kashiwanoha Campus
Station Satellite(Future Center)baKashiwa Ⅱ Campusku

To TokyoTo
Tsu○ Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit (Tsukuba Express Line)<Tobu Bus>
西柏03 bound for Nagareyama-ōtakanomori Station East Exit
→ get oﬀ at Todai-mae, Todai-nishi stop (Some terminate at Todai-nishi stop)
西柏04 bound for Edogawadai Station East Exit (via National Cancer Center)→ get oﬀ at Todai-mae, Todai-nishi stop
西柏10 bound for Edogawadai Station East Exit (via Midoridai-chuo)→ get oﬀ at Todai-mae, Todai-nishi, Todai-nishimon-mae stop
<on foot> about 25-minute walk○ Kashiwa Station West Exit (JR Joban Line)<Tobu Bus>
西柏01 bound for National Cancer Center (via Kenmin Plaza)→ get oﬀ at Todai-nishi, Todai-mae stop
柏44 bound for National Cancer Center (via Customs Training Institute)→ get oﬀ at National Cancer Center stop
○ Edogawadai Station East Exit (Tobu Urban Park Line)<Tobu Bus>
西柏04 bound for Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit (via National Cancer Center)→ get oﬀ at Todai-nishi, Todai-mae stop
西柏10 bound for Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit (via Midoridai-chuo)→ get oﬀ at Todai-nishimon-mae, Todai-nishi, Todai-mae stop
○ Joban Highway : at Kashiwa IC exit to Chiba direction to take Route 16 for 500m andturn right at the “Toyofuta Industrial Estate Entrance” crossing

International lodge・Kashiwa lodge

West Exit

Tsukuba Express
Kashiwanoha-Campus Sta.

To Akihabara

Tsukuba Express, Tobu Urban Park L.
Nagareyama-ōtakanomori Sta.
To Kashiwa

Access to the Kashiwanoha Station Campus○ Kashiwanoha-Campus Station West Exit (Tsukuba Express Line) 1 minutesʼ walkAs of August 2015.
Issued by The Kashiwa Campus Liasion Oﬃce, the Kashiwa Campus Joint Academic Management
council, The University of Tokyo
Contact : General Aﬀairs/Public Relation Section, Kashiwa Administration Department Center