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Welcome to Yokohama City University

YCU is a regional hub for education, research and medical care. We make every effort to provide fulfilling learning opportunities, to contribute to the community and to live up to the trust and expectations of the citizens of Yokohama. I encourage our students to realize that all the academic activities taking place at YCU have a real impact on society both at the local and global levels. Our curriculum fosters in students a global sensibility and a greater awareness of the diversity of our world. We are determined to intensify exchange with our academic partners and strengthen ties with the City of Yokohama and other overseas institutions. I hope that, together, we can build an academic network that reaches all corners of the world.

Michiko Aihara
YCU's 22nd President

MISSION STATEMENT

YCU's mission is to fulfill its roles and responsibilities of education, research and medical care, and as a part of the urban social infrastructure of a knowledge-based society in the international city of Yokohama. We aspire to become a university that contributes to the development of a sustainable society and a university in which local residents can take pride.

Education: To nurture global human resources who can soar to the world from Yokohama
Research: To create and support leading research which contributes back to society
Healthcare: To provide top-quality healthcare and promote medical knowledge

Facts & Figures

4,279

undergraduate students

808

graduate students

758

faculty members

1,297

students actively utilizing our Career Support Center in a year

2,770

alumni registered with our Career Supporter System

History & Traditions

The origin of Yokohama City University can be traced back to Yokohama School of Commerce founded in 1882. Since the opening of the port, Yokohama turned into a center of trade in Japan. Yokohama School of Commerce was established to develop human resources equipped with western commercial techniques. Because of its policy of complete educational pragmatism, many children of merchants in Yokohama who had a strong interest in learning attended this school. After graduation, many of them contributed to the development of the city in the front lines of trade industry. Yokohama School of Commerce then developed into Yokohama City College of Commerce, which is the origin of Yokohama City University. Another origin of YCU is Juzen Hospital of Nogeyama in 1874. Although Yokohama was the center of western medicine at that time, there was no hospital for the citizens. Juzen Hospital was established to respond to the earnest needs of the community. Juzen Hospital then turned into Yokohama Municipal Medical College, which has developed into what is known today as the YCU Hospital and School of Medicine.

OUR TRADITIONS

OUR HISTORY

1960
Kanazawa-Hakkei Campus

YCU & Yokohama

As the first port in Japan to open to the world in 1859, Yokohama is a place where the new and the old come together in harmony. While the city is at the cutting edge of technology, it also cherishes its many historic assets. It offers the dynamism and diversity of city life, but also havens of serenity with more quiet locales such as its traditional Japanese garden.

A lot of our students come from Kanagawa prefecture and hold Yokohama close to their hearts, and because of that we aspire to become a university that contributes to the development of a sustainable society and a university in which local residents can take pride.

Campuses

Kanazawa-Hakkei Campus
22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0027 JAPAN

Kanazawa-hakkei campus is YCU’s main campus, which houses the university’s trademark clock tower and ginkgo tree-lined main streets. Kanazawa-hakkei campus includes YCU’s Central Administration, all of YCU’s undergraduate schools (besides the School of Medicine), the Graduate School Urban Social and Cultural Studies, the Graduate School of International Management, and the Graduate School of Nanobioscience’s department of Materials System Science.

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Fukuura Campus
3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004 JAPAN

Fukuura campus houses YCU’s undergraduate and Graduate Schools of Medicine, Yokohama City University Hospital, and the Advanced Medical Research Center. The university hospital is connected to the Yokohama Seaside Line’s Shidai-igakubu station and overlooks Tokyo Bay.

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Maioka Campus
641-12 Maioka-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244-0813 JAPAN

Surrounded by a vast amount of greens in Yokohama’s Totsuka Ward, YCU’s Maioka campus houses the Graduate School of Nanobioscience’s Department of Life and Environmental System Science and the Kihara Institute for Biological Research (KIBR), which is one of the foremost plant research institutions in the world studying wheat. The Maioka campus also houses the Kihara Memorial Room, and has, in recent times, been visited by the Emperor Emeritus and Empress Emerita of Japan.

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Tsurumi Campus
1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045 JAPAN

Located in northeastern Yokohama, by the Tsurumi River, YCU’s Tsurumi campus was established in 2001 as a graduate school partnership between YCU and Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution, RIKEN. Tsurumi campus houses the Graduate School of Medical Life Science.

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Minato Mirai Satellite Campus
2-2-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012 JAPAN

In April 1st, 2020, Yokohama City University will open its new satellite campus within Yokohama Landmark Tower in the city’s Minato Mirai business district. The campus will be located within NANA Level (NANA Lv.), an innovation center managed by Mitsubishi Estates. The new campus will focus on providing data science courses through the newly established Graduate School of Data Science.

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