柏キャンパスは、東京大学の21世紀における新たな学問の発展に向けた構想に基づいて建設された、本郷、駒場に次ぐ第３の主要キャンパスです。
東京大学は、明治10年（1877年）以来伝統的学問分野を深く極めてきた本郷キャンパスと、昭和24年（1949年）以来複数の学問分野の接点において新たな学際的領域を開拓してきた駒場キャンパスを両極として発展してきましたが、平成12年（2000年）に学問体系の根本的な組み換えをも視野に入れた学融合を志向する柏キャンパスが加わりました。柏キャンパスではこのような「知の冒険」を目指して様々な新しい取り組みが行われています。

大学院新領域創成科学研究科では「基盤科学研究系」、「生命科学研究系」、「環境学研究系」の3つの分野を中心に、新しい学問領域の創成を目指しています。物性研究所ではエネルギーや材料分野など産業を支える様々な物質の性質や、生体系物質を含むソフトマターの反応素過程を根源から解明し、基礎物性科学を総合的に推進しています。宇宙線研究所では宇宙線の研究を通して宇宙や物質の起源に迫ろうとしています。大気海洋研究所では海洋と大気の基礎的研究を推進するとともに、地球表層圏に関する科学の深化を通じた社会貢献を目指しています。国際高等研究所カブリ数物連携宇宙研究機構では数学と物理学、天文学の連携により宇宙の根本的な謎の解明に挑んでいます。さらに空間情報科学研究センター、環境安全研究センター柏支所、情報基盤センター、生産技術研究所、柏図書館、文書館などが活動しています。

東京大学は新しい学問分野の創出を果敢に進めていくことによって、世界の学問をリードしていくことを目指しています。この中で、柏キャンパスは重要な役割を担うべく、また国際キャンパスとしての施設も充実させつつ飛躍的な発展を続けています。

柏キャンパスの構成員の詳細は、刊行物「柏キャンパスへようこそ」をご覧ください。


Kashiwa Campus is the newest of the three main campuses of The University of Tokyo in addition to campuses at Hongo and Komaba, and was established with the vision of building a new community with a strong interdisciplinary and international character that can respond to the dynamic scientific and educational needs of the 21st Century. Hongo Campus, the core of traditional academic activities at The University of Tokyo since its foundation in 1877, and Komaba Campus, focusing on undergraduate studies and building interdisciplinary links between established fields of study for over 60 years, have longstanding academic traditions. Kashiwa Campus recently joined this family and aims at a fundamental reorganization of the structure of traditional academic disciplines, reconsidering the framework of how knowledge is created and organized. Under the slogan of “Adventures in Knowledge”, Kashiwa Campus has started various new initiatives.

The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS) consists of three divisions each with relevant departments: Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences, Division of Biosciences, and Division of Environmental Studies. GSFS aims to create new frontiers of academic fields. The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) comprehensively promotes basic condensed matter physics and materials science by elucidating thoroughly from the root the properties of various materials that support industries such as energy, material fields and soft matters including biological materials where dynamics and excited states. The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) is pursuing the origins of the universe and matter through research on cosmic rays. The Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI) not only promotes basic research on the ocean and atmosphere, but also contributes to society through deepening ocean and climate science. The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe （Kavli IPMU）pursues the deep mysteries of the universe through the integration of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Other departments include the Center for Spatial Information Science, Kashiwa Branch of Environmental Science Center, the Information Technology Center, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the Kashiwa Library and the University of Tokyo Archives.

As the names suggest, these facilities bring together people from a wide variety of research fields. As an important part of facilitating communication between research fields, Kashiwa Campus also has a strong international character, promoting international contacts and the exchange of ideas from around the world. Through the facilities that exist now or will be built in the near future, Kashiwa Campus has excellent coverage of many of the new fields of science that have growing importance in shaping our lives in the 21st Century. Abandoning the constraints of traditional ways of organizing science, Kashiwa Campus has quickly responded to the continuously evolving frontiers of science in an increasingly global and dynamic society by building new interdisciplinary research facilities and seeding new academic fields. These achievements will make the “adventures in knowledge” in Kashiwa possible.

For more information about the members of the Kashiwa Campus, please refer to the publication "Welcome to the Kashiwa Campus".