All Reviews of The Old Halls of Toyosato Elementary School

Experiencing how Japanese classrooms were set up and the facilities they had. Enjoyed seeing the anime room from the famous K-ON anime.

Toyosato Elementary School is a beautiful school. From it`s remarkable long wooden hallways to it`s church like auditorium, the school is both Japanese and Western in style.

During the tour I came to learn that the reason for this is because the school was designed by the American born designer, William Vories. I liked how Mr. Furukawa, the man who donated the buildings, incorporated a lesson of perseverance a teacher of his once taught him through the story of the turtle and the hare. On the staircase handrails you can see small cute sculptures of both a turtle and a hair depicting their race going all the way up to the top floor. My favorite room in the school was the science room. They had many preserved scientific instruments. From an early ultraviolet light generator and a massive electrometer to a wide variety of taxidermy, I could get a feeling that the students had wonderful science classes. The school is also famous for being the setting for the anime, K-On. I did not know much about this anime, but was able to appreciate it due to all the fans that were visiting while we were there. Lastly, the volunteer guides were extremely friendly and talkative and made us feel very welcome.

Visit to the science room.

Seeing the old classrooms.

Really interesting to see a unique school within Japan and to get a look at how classes were arranged.

Visiting classrooms makes you feel the atmosphere of Japanese school many years ago. Very nice to get to know it.

The science class room was the most interesting part as it had materials from a long time ago.

I really enjoyed seeing the science class rooms. It is so crazy that the school was so advanced with it's technology compaired to America.

Charming old tourguide who was an OB. K-on club room. Seeing k-on otaku enjoying their time. Tea after tour and casual conversation with tourguide.

Cool to see such an old building, and how japanese schools were run!! Nice to see where K-on was inspired by too! So cool!