Sogakudo Concert Hall

The Sogakudo Concert Hall

The Tokyo audio-guided tour presents you with the Sogakudo Concert Hall, a building of Western style that is the oldest concert hall of this type in Japan.

A high place of Japanese music

Inaugurated in 1890, the building belonged to the Tokyo Music School, then served the city's University of Arts until the 1970s. Renovated and transformed into a concert hall of three hundred and thirty-eight seats, it reopened in 1987. Listed as an important cultural property, the Japanese equivalent of historic monuments, it houses a statue of Rentaro Taki, one of the most famous composers of the country, recognised for his talent on the piano, who died very young in 1903.

What there is to see

The Sogakudo charms with its Western-style architecture, rare in Japan, and its hushed atmosphere of a historic concert hall. A place of memory of Japanese music, it pays tribute to Rentaro Taki through a statue. Still in activity, it hosts concerts in a setting laden with history, in the heart of Ueno Park.

Practical information

The Sogakudo Concert Hall is in Ueno Park, in Tokyo. It opens to the public on the occasion of concerts and visits, according to its own programme and hours, liable to vary. Its façade can be contemplated from the outside, on the level.

What is the Sogakudo Concert Hall?

The oldest Western-style concert hall of Japan, inaugurated in 1890, in Ueno Park.

Who was Rentaro Taki?

One of the most famous Japanese composers, trained at the Tokyo Music School, to whom the Sogakudo pays tribute with a statue.