Hideyo Noguchion the 1000-yen note
The world-famous scientist Hideyo Noguchi is on thecurrently circulating 1000-yen note. The original
picture used for the image printed on 1000-yen note
was taken in Ecuador while Hideyo was working tocontrol yellow fever. The picture was his favorite one
and he presented it to his mentors and friends.

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Access

By train, transfer at Koriyama Station of
Tohoku-Shinkansen to Ban-Etsu-West Line and get oﬀ at
Inwashiro Station. From the station, it is about 10 min bybus or about 6 min by taxi.
By car, drive down from the Inawashiro-Bandaikogen
interchange of the Ban-Etsu Expressway and pass to the
Aizuwakamatsu area on the National Route 49.

Hideyo Noguchi
Memorial Museum

Admission

Opening hours: April〜October, 9:00-17:30
November〜March, 9:00-16:30(Ticket counter closes 30 minutes before
museum colosure)
Closed: December 29 to January 3
Time required for observation: 40-50 minutes

Admission fee（Including admission fee of Infectious Disease Museum）

The 1000-yen note numbered A000002A

Adult (15 years or more)

1200yenJunior (6-14 years)

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Junior (6-14 years)

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Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum〒969-3284 81 maeda, Mitsuwa, Inawashiro, Yama-gun, FukushimaTel:(81)-242-65-2319 Fax:(81)-242-65-2500

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Registered Tangible
was built on thisspot in 1823. The
sunken hearth
where Hideyo felland burnt himself
at the age of one and one-half years and the declaration ofresolve that he carved in the alcove pillar when leaving forTokyo have been preserved unchanged from those times.

Meet theworld-famous
Hideyo Noguchi

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about the career andaccomplishmentsof Hideyo Noguchi

Inawashiro/Aizuwakamatsu
Era (1876-1896)
Seisaku Noguchi (later Hideyo Noguchi) was born on 9

Hideyo Noguchi Around the World
Nyuchan (China)

Philadelphia (USA)[October 1899 to June 1900][December 1900 to September 1903]age and burnt himself very badly. All ﬁve ﬁngers of his left
hand became stuck together like

Copenhagen(Denmark)[October 1903 toSeptember 1904]a knot on a pine tree. When

New York (USA)

Merida (Mexico)[October 1904 to May 1928][December 1919 to February
1920/November 1920]

Flexner. At the Institute, he began research on the syphilis
spirochete. In 1913, he reported the groundbreaking discovery that the syphilis

surgery on his left hand and hespirochete wasregained the ability to move his

present in the brain

thumb. Impressed by the won-tissues of patients ofders of the surgery that had

cerebral syphilis. For

enabled him to hold things
again, Seisaku resolved toQuito,Guayaquil (Ecuador)

embark on a career in the ﬁeld

[June 1918 to November 1918]

Accra (Ghana)
Lagos (Nigeria)of medicine. For this, he aimed
to take the national examination[October 1927 to May 1928]
With his friend Yasuhei Yago (left)
after the surgery

Inawashiro/Aizuwakamatsu (Japan)[ November 1876 to September 1896]

Tokyo/Yokohama (Japan)

Tokyo Era (1896-1900)
Seisaku left Inawasiro for Tokyo in 1896. In the next year hepassed the national examination and became qualiﬁed as
medical doctor. In 1898, he joined the Institute of Infectious
Disease headed by Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato with the desireof becoming a bacteriology researcher. Around this[April 1920 to June 1920]

Bahia (El Salvador)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

During his time at the Insti-[November 1923 to March 1924]

Hideyo worked at theYokohama Quarantine
Station and in Niuzhung,currently Yingkou, China,
where he combatedplague, very infectious
Hideyo soon after hisarrival in Tokyo

ology or Medicine in1914 and 1915.

Hideyo (center) with scientist of theRockefeller Institute for Medical ResearchCareer of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi
1876 Born in Mitsuwa, Yamagun, Fukushima

In 1918, Hideyo went to Guayaquil, Ecuador to work on

1878 Fell into a sunken hearth in his house and burnt himself very
badly

eradication of yellow fever. He was successful in identifying
a spirochete in a patient and developing a vaccine. The

1892 Received surgery on his left hand and regained the ability tomove his thumn. This impressed him so much that resolved toembark on a career in the ﬁeld of medicine

vaccine proved eﬀective in countries across Central and1900 Made voyage to the United States relying upon Dr. Simon
Flexner and worked at the University of Pennsylvania

tute of Infectious Diseases,

nominated for theCentral and South America/
Africa Era (1918-1928)[September 1896 to December 1900]

1897 Passed the national examination and became qualiﬁed as a
medical doctorfrom Seisaku to Hideyo.

this ﬁnding, he wasNobel Prize in Physi-

Piura (Peru)

1896 Left Inawashiro for Tokyo

time, he changed his namedisease.

National Serum Institute in Copenhagen. One year later, heInstitute for Medical Research in New York headed by Dr.

Kanae Watanabe performed

cal doctor.

venom. After 3 years he went to Denmark to work at thereturned to the United States and joined the Rockefeller

Seisaku was 15 years of age, Dr.

and become qualiﬁed as a medi-In 1900, Hideyo became an assistant to Dr. Simon Flexner
at the University of Pennsylvania and worked on snake

Novermber, 1876 in a poor farming family in Inawashiro.
Seisaku fell into a sunken hearth in his house at 1.5 years ofAmerica/Denmark Era(1900-1928)

South America. Over time, however, it became evident thatwhat he had eradicated was not yellow fever, but Weil sdisease.
In 1927, Hideyo went to Accra in the Gold Coast of West
Africa (currently the Republic of Ghana) to investigate thecause of yellow fever.

1903 Went to Denmark to work at the National Serum InstituteHe appeared to have

1904 Started work at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Researchin New Yorkin his studies and wasmade some headway

1913 Reported the groundbreaking discovery that the syphilis
spirochete was present in the brain tissues of patients withcerebral syphilis

planning to return to1915 Triumphantly returned to Japan after 15 years

and passed away in1918 Went to Ecuador to control yellow fever
1928 Died of yellow fever in Accra, West Africa, at 51 years of age

New York, when hedeveloped yellow fever
Accra on 21 May 1928,
at the age of 51 years.

Hideyo with Dr. A. F Mahaﬀyfrom the Rockefeller Foundation