Meiji Gakuin Birthplace Monument

Meiji Gakuin has its roots in Tokyo Unity Seminary.

Original Text

We will disseminate information about the "Meiji Gakuin Birthplace Monument" in Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku. This time, I visited the "Meiji Gakuin Birthplace Monument" on January 22, 2024. To access the "Meiji Gakuin Birthplace Monument", take Exit 6 of "Shintomicho Station" on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line and go straight in the direction of travel about 350 ｍ. From the middle of the road, there is a signal (the display name "Sakai Ohashi"), so cross the pedestrian crossing and turn right, and go about 150 ｍ and go to the left hand of the sidewalk.

The birthplace of Meiji Gakuin

Original Text

If you go west from the birthplace of Women's Seigakuin, you will find a parking lot of a pharmacy, and there is a monument in the corner. In 1863 at the end of the Edo period, a private school (Hebon School) was established in the Yokohama settlement. This Hebon Juku was moved to Tsukiji in 1880 (Meiji 13), and this was the mother of "Meiji Gakuin" in 1887 (Meiji 20).

One of the western schools in the foreign settlement

Original Text

Akashi Town was a foreign settlement in the early Meiji era. There were many schools that conducted Western-style education. One of them is the Tokyo Uchisai Seminary, the predecessor of Meiji Gakuin, which has a campus in Shiba Platinum. Now, there is only a small stone monument on the roadside.

It's surrounded by fences in a corner of the parking lot.

Original Text

　This monument of the birthplace of Meiji Gakuin is a stone monument located where the Tokyo Consistency Seminary, which was the base of Meiji Gakuin, was opened in １８７７ (Meiji １０), and is located on the north side of St. Luke Garden in Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku. Along the settlement street running on the side Surrounded by a fence in a corner of the parking lot of the drug store. This stone monument is made of well-polished black granite, so it reflects the surrounding scenery like a mirror, and the inscription is a little difficult to understand depending on the angle of view, but it is very beautiful, and on the right side, ...

The monument is not conspicuous, but ...

Original Text

There is a monument to the birthplace of various schools around here. Meiji Gakuin is one of them. It is a small monument in a corner of the parking lot surrounded by a fence. Originally founded by missionary Dr. Hebon, there is a monument to Dr. Hebon in Yokohama. After that, you should go to the campus of Shiragindai, Minato Ward. You can see the school building of the important cultural property class.