Access

For Visitors

Access to Kumamoto University
http://ewww.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/about/access/access_map.html

From Kumamoto Airport
(1) Take Limousine Bus for Kumamoto Kotsu Center　(熊本交通センター）.
(2) Get off at Touricho-suzi （通町筋） bus stop. (40-50 min; ca. 600 yen from the airport).
(3) Take a taxi to go to Kurokami Campus, of Kumamoto University.
(4) Get off the taxi at Akamon (Red Gate) at Kurokami Campus.
(5) Cross the street to the southern campus, and find the eight-stories building on your frontright.

From JR Kumamoto Station
(1) Take a tram for Kengunkoumae (健軍校前）.
(2) Get off the tram at Touricho-suzi （通町筋） stop.
(3) Take a taxi to go to Kurokami Campus, of Kumamoto University.
(4) Get off the taxi at Akamon (Red Gate) at Kurokami Campus.
(5) Cross the street to the southern campus, and find the eight-stories building on your frontright.

Call me when you get lost !! (Phone: 096-342-3650)

Kumamoto

Kumamoto Prefecture
http://www.pref.kumamoto.jp/english/list.html

City of Kumamoto
http://www.city.kumamoto.kumamoto.jp/menu-e.html

Campus Information

Kumamoto University

http://ewww.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/

Kurokami South Campus
http://ewww.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/about/access/campus.html

Location of the Lab in Campus

Sugimoto Laboratory is at Rm 309-311 in the building of Department of Applied Chemistry andBiochemistry.

Introduction of Kumamoto University

Kumamoto University has been one of the key schools in Japan.After the Meiji revolution, our university was called the Fifth HigherNormal School (among the eight "numbered" higher normalschools). It was established to educate young stars in Kyushu topromote them to higher education at the Imperial University(University of Tokyo, at present).
Our Department of Parmaceutical Sciences originates from themedicinal school,Banji En （蕃滋園）, for the Hosokawa clangoverned the Kumamoto area in the Edo period.
Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato, who discovered the infectious agent ofbubonic plague, graduated from the Kumamoto Medicinal School(KMS), which is now Department of Medicine of KU. KMS wasoriginally founded for the medicinal school of the Hosokawa clanknown asSaisyun Kan (再春館）.
Jigoro Kano, a founder of Judo, was the president of the Fifth Higher Normal School. Soseki Natsume and Lafcadio Hearn taught English there. (Photo: Jigoro Kano)
(Photo: Soseki Natsume)
(Photo: Lafcadio Hearn)
A famous physists and esseist, Torahiko Terada, learned at the School. He was a professoratTokyo Imperial University, a researcher atRIKEN, and worked on a wide range of topics in physics. Also, he was a professor at theEarthquake Research Institute.
Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Sato, the former prime ministers, graduated the school. (Photo: Hayato Ikeda)
(Photo: Eisaku Sato)