University of Tokyo, Hongō Campus 東京大学 本郷キャンパス
red gate of 1827, Important Cultural Property since 1931 (now closed to passage)
The main campus of the University of Tokyo, in Bunkyō, stands on the former residence of the Maeda, lords of the Kaga domain. The red gate, the Akamon (赤門), dates from 1827 and was built for the wedding of Maeda Nariyasu to Yōhime, daughter of the shōgun Tokugawa Ienari; it has been an Important Cultural Property since 1950. At the end of the avenue stands Yasuda Auditorium (安田講堂), begun in 1921, halted by the Kantō earthquake and finished on 6 July 1925 to a design by Uchida Yoshikazu and Kishida Hideto.
Tokyo
Hongo-sanchome, Keisei-Ueno, Nezu
Death Note
In the ninth episode Light Yagami sits the entrance exam here. The university in the story is called Tō-Ō (東応大学), but the campus you can recognise is this one, Hongō.
