A symbol of Rikkyo University, also known as “Morris Hall” for having been constructed through the donations of Mr. Arthur Rutherford Morris, an American Episcopalian missionary. The clock in the central tower, measuring 90 centimeters in diameter, was manufactured by Dent, an English company. Even today, a staff member winds the weight-driven clock once every six days. Various traditions have sprung up as time went by, such as that “students preparing to take exams will pass if they touch the ivy, and that freshman who cannot find a boyfriend or girlfriend before the ivy leaves fall in autumn will be stuck without one for four years.”
＊Selected Historical Building of Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Built at the time of the school’s relocation to Ikebukuro, this building, together with Building No. 3, originally served as a student dormitory. Building 2 was then used to house research facilities for the College of Social Relations, before being put to its current use as a facility for certification programs provided by the Teacher, Curator, Librarian and Lifelong Education Director Program.
＊Selected Historical Building of Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Contains student rooms for graduate students of the Faculty of Science as well as faculty research rooms. The Natural Sciences Library is stocked with research materials related to the field of natural sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry and life science).
In addition to classrooms, this building houses the Division of Student Affairs and the Career Center, as well as the restaurant “Restaurant Ivy.” Since October 2008, grass has been planted on the roof of the Building, and is used by students as a garden.
Contains student rooms for graduate students of the Faculty of Literature as well as faculty research rooms. The Humanities Library is stocked with materials related to literature studies.
The Media Library is completely furnished with AV equipment and computers, as well as classrooms that are multimedia compatible. In addition, this classroom building also contains rooms for face-to-face reading aloud for visually handicapped students and other services. The first floor contains medium-sized lecture rooms.
The building provides a media education environment, including computer rooms furnished with the latest computers, multimedia laboratories, and large-scale language labs. Moreover, the Media Center provides assistance for various types of multimedia equipment and support for IT-related education and research.
This building provides space for the Law School (Rikkyo Law School) and Independent Graduate Courses, as well as regular classrooms, a lecture hall, and and mock trial classrooms.
＊Winner of Good Design Award
＊Winner of Tile Design Award
＊Winner of International Lighting Design Award
Centering primarily on social science-related research, this facility also houses graduate student rooms and faculty research rooms for members of the College of Economics, College of Business Administration, College of Sociology, and the College of Law and Politics. The library has collected social science-related research materials primarily for the collections of these colleges.
The College of Science’s laboratories and seminar rooms are housed in this building. Together with the facilities in Building No. 4, the Academic Frontier projects of the College of Science, and the High Tech Research Center, with its state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, form the foundations of Rikkyo’s efforts to advance academic research in the twenty-first century.
Completed in March 2009. Equipped with exercise rooms and classrooms for 50, 200 and 300 people. The basement floor has multi-purpose classrooms that are also used for gym classes.
Completed in 1960. It was designed by the late Kenzo Tange, who designed many famous landmarks such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
Completed in 1918, it is known as the Mather Library because it was constructed through donations from Samuel Livingston Mather, a member of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. The second floor reference room still maintains the atmosphere of the early 20th century.
＊Selected Historical Building of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Completed in 1918. The original atmosphere of the Main Dining Hall has been preserved from when it was constructed at the time of the school’s relocation to Ikebukuro. Construction work to make it earthquake-resistant was completed in 2002, restoring the building’s beautiful atmosphere, including its traditional brickwork exterior and mortar-walled dining hall. The facility is used by the public as well. The Latin words adorning the entrance to the dining hall are by the philosopher Cicero, and inform those who enter that “Appetites (the original Latin says “Desires”)” should be ruled by reason.”
＊Selected Historical Building of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
In addition to daily morning worship services, various worship services are also held for memorial events, Christmas, and other religious observances. Also, in addition to pipe-organ and hand-bell concerts, wedding ceremonies for graduating students and alumni are also held here.
＊Selected Historical Building of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
This facility for student extracurricular activities has a large open atrium and staircase that reaches up through the center of the building. While most of the rooms are for various club and circle activities, the building also contains a studio, music practice rooms, shower facilities, and meeting rooms. In addition, located on the second floor are the cafeteria Yamagoya, which serves light meals, and the Commons Room.
Ikebukuro Campus Store. The first floor has stationery and original Rikkyo University merchandise, while the second floor handles textbooks, journals, and magazines. Stationery items and books may be purchased at a 10-25% discount.
Store Hours (Note that hours are different during University holidays.)
●Mon – Fri: 8:50 – 18:30
●Sat: 8:50 – 14:00
This auditorium was built in memory of Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, an early university president responsible for much of the growth and expansion of the school. In addition to classes and lectures, graduation ceremonies are also held in this auditorium, which can hold over 1000 people. The Admission Center on the first floor offers various kinds of information, including an outline of entrance exam procedures, latest admission data, and department and course details, through counseling and brochures.
The construction of this building was funded by donations from Asako Tachikawa, in memory of her late husband Shozaburo Tachikawa, an alumnus of Rikkyo University. The first floor houses the Center for International Studies, which handles international exchange programs, accepting overseas exchange and international students. Various types of lectures and symposia are held in the multi-purpose hall located on the third floor.
Running from east to west through the center of the Campus is an avenue lined with sycamore trees (Platanus orientalis) that were planted in 1924. Along this path is a monument inscribed with the words from the hit Showa Era song “Suzukake no Michi” (Sycamore Avenue), written by the late Katsuhiko Haida, a graduate of the College of Economics. Students can be seen relaxing on the benches alongside the avenue while enjoying the beautiful scenery of each season.
This is the former residence of Edogawa Rampo, a Japanese mystery writer, who moved to Ikebukuro in 1934 and lived here until his death. His house and the storehouse he used as a library which was called Gen-ei Jo or “Castle of Illusion,” was donated to Rikkyo University in 2002. The place is open to the general public every Friday.
＊Designated as a tangible cultural asset by Toshima Ward
