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Tohoku University
Registered Tangible Cultural Properties

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This place is marked with the footprints left by seekers of knowledge, from the past leading up to the present. We can still hear the echo of bygone students who gathered and studied here together.
More than 130 years has passed since the campus was first founded. Over the years, Tohoku University’s campus has served as the epitome of the academic city of Sendai, and as such, the campus is dotted with many buildings that is befitting of being called a cultural heritage. These historical properties must not be kept simply as the University’s assets? They must be passed down to future generations as cultural assets to be shared with the people of Sendai.
This hope has been answered, and in 2017, some of the buildings of historical significance have been recognized for the first time as Registered Tangible Cultural Properties.
We have a landscape that we wish to preserve. A landscape that will help us pass down the history and the essence from the past to the people of today, and to those of future generations.

What are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties?

There are many landscapes around us that we wish to preserve into the future. Even familiar buildings that we enter without much thought can be considered precious cultural properties if they have a good representation of a certain feature of an era, or if the buildings are such that cannot be built again. The cultural property registration system was created in order to protect such buildings of cultural asset, and utilize them as assets for the local community. To be recognized as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property Building, the building should have a history of 50 years of more, and acquire a certain level of appraisal as being a property of cultural value. After the building is registered, efforts are made toward its preservation and utilization through a relaxed system of control based on a notification system.

Registration standards As a rule, the building should be at least 50 years old. Among them, the building should contribute to the historical landscape of Japan, serve as an example of formative design, and be such that would be difficult to reproduce. Registration standards As a rule, the building should be at least 50 years old. Among them, the building should contribute to the historical landscape of Japan, serve as an example of formative design, and be such that would be difficult to reproduce.

Newly Registered Buildings on October 14th, 2021

  1. Formerly Faculty of Science’s Biology Lecture Rooms at Tohoku Imperial University

    [Tohoku University Administration Building 7]
    The earliest reinforced concrete construction in Sendai, and the first in Tohoku Imperial University

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  2. Formerly Second Building of the Faculty of Law and Literature at Tohoku Imperial University

    [Accounting School Research Building]
    The Tohoku Imperial University Faculty of Law and Literature’s only remaining building

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  3. Formerly Engineering Faculty’s Machine & Electrical Engineering Lecture Rooms at Tohoku Imperial University

    [IMRAM South Building 1]
    Architecture showing the building's original style

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  4. Formerly Engineering Faculty’s Machine & Electrical Engineering Experimental Rooms at Tohoku Imperial University

    [IMRAM Administration Building]
    The whole of the building indicated in No.03

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  5. Formerly Architectural Department of SKK High School

    [Research Center for 21st Century Information Technology 1]
    A building that conveys the atmosphere of the early Showa period. Includes a beautiful arcade-style passage.

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  6. Honda Memorial Hall


    A building of architectural value, with a marble entrance and staircase, and historical value, honoring the Institute for Materials Research and Kotaro Honda.

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  7. Monument of Former Second Senior High School


    This monument is valuable as a reminder of the Former Second Senior High School, and it also shows the love that graduates have for their alma mater.

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  8. Former Tohoku Imperial University Main Gate

    [Tohoku University Main Gate]
    The granite gate pillars have been in place since their construction. Valuable architecture that survived the war and exemplifies the university’s history.

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Other highlights
[Katahira Campus]

History and changes at the Katahira Campus