Meijo University

Meijo University, Nagoya 名城大学

Meijo University is the largest university in Nagoya and indeed the Chubu region of central Japan with over 15,000 students spread out over three campuses in Shiogamaguchi, Yagoto both in Tenpaku-ku and Nagoya Dome-mae near Ozone. A previous campus in the town of Kani in Gifu Prefecture closed in 2017.

Tower 75 Shiogamaguchi campus

Meijo University was founded in 1926 and has a good reputation for its faculties of Science & Technology and Pharmacy. There are also departments of Law, Languages, Economics, Human Studies, Agriculture, Urban Science and Business Management. The main Shiogamaguchi campus has been modernized over the last decade with the building of the 15-story Tower 75 and two new buildings housing multiple lecture halls.

Shiogamaguchi campus signs

Meijo's continuing popularity with Chubu students is due to its location near a subway station: Shiogamaguchi on the Tsurumai Line, the modern buildings and a number of popular eateries on campus such as Subway and MacDonald's. The same is true of the new Nagoya Dome-mae campus with its MU restaurant open to the public. it is popular with mothers and their young children. Meijo also has an affiliated high school located out in Higashibiwajima not far from Nagoya Station. In April 2016 a new campus opened in Ozone opposite the Nagoya Dome and the Kani Campus closed in 2017. Meijo's annual Open Day will be held this Sunday with the university festival taking place in the first week of November.

Shiogamaguchi campus main entrance

Access - Getting There

Meijo University Shiogamaguchi 1-501 Tenpaku-ku Nagoya 468-8502 Tel: 052-832-1151 The nearest subway station to the main Shiogamaguchi campus is Shiogamaguchi on the east west Tsurumai line of Nagoya subway. Yagoto Station is the nearest subway station to the Faculty of Pharmacy campus at Yagoto. Shiogamaguchi main campus