Senshu University Kanda Building 10
140th Anniversary Museum

The area stretching from Kanda Surugadai to Jimbocho in Tokyo—home to a concentration of universities and often likened to Japan’s “Quartier Latin”—is where Senshu University’s Kanda Campus is located, set back one block from Yasukuni-dori.To realize a campus reorganization plan marking the university’s 140th anniversary, a new high-rise academic building—serving as the centerpiece of the plan—was designed.
Following the trend of campus relocations to the suburbs that began after the period of rapid economic growth, universities have in recent years been returning to city centers—including through facility renovations—to respond to the pace of globalization and the information society, as well as to secure student enrollment amid a declining birthrate.With an eye toward its future vision, Senshu University has been considering, as a central pillar of its campus reorganization, not only the relocation of faculties from the Ikuta Campus in Kanagawa Prefecture but also the establishment of new faculties aimed at developing human resources for a global society.