Tohoku University Katahira Campus — Restaurant in Sendai

To be honest, engineering course in Tohoku University is not so well designed. The poor arrangement by putting third-year undergrad course on the first year course schedule was really confusing and beyond our level at that time. The classes supposed to be taught in English sometimes are completely in Japanese. The undergraduate class contents sometimes can be surprisingly shallow and meaningless, as attendance is the most important thing in this university not understanding. One of few things good here is that I don't have to pay my tuition fee. But on the other hand, the promising statement of "a lot of opportunities to get scholarship" is just disappointing. To sustain yourself in this university, you NEED money in your bank account to prepare what's gonna happen next. I guess Tohoku University is a good one in Japan, as it indeed in the engineering and science society in Japan. However, internationalization in this university is still in progress and I would say not even mature enough. At this moment, I would say I will not even think about working or continuing my graduate study here in Sendai nor Japan. Life is tough here people, get ready and think carefully before you come here. Good luck...

I graduated from this university. I was the third generation of the international engineering course. When I was there in 2013 to 2017, most of the classes were in English, but some were taught in Japanese with minimal English translation which was frustrating. I was quite upset with the university at that time. I told the Engineering department that all the classes that an international student need to take in an international engineering course must be offered fully in English as the university advertised when I enroll in this course. The university setup a meeting for international student who were upset with the courses to talk with the dean, program supervisor and other faculty staff member. After our feedback and complaint, the university improved immediately. My junior has a class that was fully taught in English and more classes were offered in the later year. I am really impress is how the university took the complaint seriously and improve accordingly. This really shows how the hospitality and consideration of...

Katahira Campus is one of Tohoku University’s four major campuses. It houses Administrative Units, Science and Tech and Economic Research Institute.

It seems that Tohoku University is very proud of its early Chinese student Lu Xun, 1904-1906, a Chinese modern writer, who was deemed to have significant roles in Chinese new cultural movement and Communism development in China. Thus, there is Lu Xun’s statute and archives on campus in memory of Lu Xun.

Katahira Campus has an overall non-smoking policy and no bike-riding policy on many parts of the campus.

Visitors surely can enjoy walking on its beautiful campus with tall trees growing almost everywhere. Some sidewalk concrete seems to be experimental with environmental friendly materials and suitable for walking and stepping on.

It can be accessed by Sendai Subway at Aobadori...