Aeronautical Research Institute of the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

東京大学
Latin: Universitas Tociensis
Former names	Imperial University (1886–1897) Tokyo Imperial University (1897–1947)
Type	Public (National)
Established	1877
Academic affiliations	IARU APRU AEARU AGS BESETOHA
President	Makoto Gonokami ()
Academic staff	2,429 full-time 175 part-time
Administrative staff	5,779
Students	28,697
Undergraduates	14,274
Postgraduates	13,732
Doctoral students	6,022
Other students	747 research students
Location	Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban
Colors	Light Blue
Athletics	46 varsity teams
Website	u-tokyo.ac.jp

Coordinates: 35°42′48″N 139°45′44″E / 35.71333°N 139.76222°E / 35.71333; 139.76222

The University of Tokyo (, ), abbreviated as Todai (, ) or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, often cited as the most prestigious university in Japan.

The university has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is the first of Japan's National Seven Universities.

The university was chartered by the Meiji government in 1877 under its current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine and Western learning. It was renamed "the Imperial University (帝國大學, Teikoku daigaku)" in 1886, and then Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝國大學, Tōkyō teikoku daigaku) in 1897 when the Imperial University system was created. In September 1923, an earthquake and the following fires destroyed about 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. The books lost included the Hoshino Library (星野文庫, Hoshino bunko), a collection of about 10,000 books. The books were the former possessions of Hoshino Hisashi before becoming part of the library of the university and were mainly about Chinese philosophy and history.