Toyo University announced a large-scale campus relocation plan in April 2024.Faculty of Life Sciences (all departments) in Itakura Campus, Itakura-cho, Yuraku-gun, Gunma Prefecture, Department of Food Science, Department of Food Science, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Environment Science, Department of Health and Nutrition, Department of Food Environment, Faculty of Food Environment Science, Saitama Prefecture Department of Science Sports and Food Function will move to Akabanedai Campus in Kita-ku, Tokyo.In addition, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, located on the Kawagoe Campus in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, will be relocated to the Asaka Campus.
With this large-scale relocation, the faculties and departments related to the life field, which are dispersed in the Itakura Campus and Kawagoe Campus, will be integrated, the facilities and equipment related to the food field will be enhanced, and the food data science field will be added to comprehensively relate to "food". Form a new base.In addition, by relocating the campus, we will integrate faculties and strengthen cooperation in line with the needs of the times.
The Akabanedai Campus is currently being studied by students from the Faculty of Information Technology and the Graduate School of Information Technology, and the new school building designed by Kengo Kuma will be completed in 2021. The Faculty of Life Design, etc. will be relocated from the Asaka Campus in April 2021, and the two faculties and four departments of welfare and health sports, which are under planning to be opened, are scheduled to be born in 4.
According to Toyo University, the Akabanedai Campus will work with the Kita Ward, which has the highest aging rate in the 23 wards of Tokyo, and work with the existing Faculty of Information and Communication to solve and develop issues in the local community.
