Tokyo
University of Tokyo
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 1877
Years of Partnership: six
For travelers, Tokyo’s artful depiction of the human capacity to exist harmoniously in a crowded place presents an irresistible attraction. Widely acclaimed as the top university in Japan, the University of Tokyo is home to an outstanding student body of achievers; HCAP, in turn, attracts some of the best and brightest at the university. Upon their return to Cambridge, Harvard students bother their roommates and classmates with stories of chic bullet trains, bustling sushi markets, the bright lights of the Ginza district, as well as the tranquil history buff’s paradise of Kyoto.