CAMPUS

Facilities

School Buildings from the Air

All the buildings and facilities have met the strict earthquake resistance requirements and provide a safe environment for school life. Click , and then you will see the facility with 360° view.

Main Building

School Chapel

School Building

Library

Auditorium

Gym

Computer Room

Laboratory

Music Room

Athletic Field

Swimming Pool

Table Tennis Room

Counselling Room

Tea House

First Oak Hill

Grotto ( Lourdes )

Cemetery

The Way of the Cross

Dormitory ( St. Madeleine)

Our school has a dormitory where students from 17 different prefectures, including Tokyo, Kanagawa, Aichi, Kyoto, Osaka, live during the week and add its uniqueness of “diversity” to the school community. The students return home every weekend and come back to school on Sunday night. The schedules of the dormitory life help students to keep good hours and develop regular study habits. Each grade has their own living room to help them feel at home.

Facilities in the Dormitory

Entrance

Courtyard

Dining Room

Study Room

Recreation Room

Piano Practice Room

Laundry Room

Bedroom

Infirmary

Bathroom

Shower Room

Washroom

Dormitory Life・Timetable in the Dormitory

	Middle School Students		High School Students
6:30	Getting Up
6:50	Morning Prayer
7:00	Breakfast (You can study after breakfast.)
8:20	Leaving for School
12:15	Lunch Break
16:00	Tea Time (You can study until evening prayer.)
17:50	Evening Prayer
18:00	Dinner followed by Washing-up
18:35～　　　18:45	Cleaning
19:25～　　　20:55	Self-Study Time
21:00	Free Time
	22:10 Roll Call 22:30 Preparing for Going to Bed	22:00 Roll Call 22:30 Preparing for Going to Bed
	23:00 Going to Bed
		24:00 Going to Bed
		25:00 Going to Bed (11^th Graders Only, if you like.) 25:30 Going to Bed (12^th Graders Only, if you like.)

Evening Prayer

Dinner Time

Washing Up

Study Time

Meals in the Dormitory

Japanese Breakfast

Lunch Box ( Fin Cutlet )

Tea Time

Lasagna

Moussaka ( Greek Dish )

( Shepherd Pie )

Sukiyaki

Gomoku Sushi

Events in the Dormitory

Birthday Party

Exchange Students

Hinamatsuri (Dolls' Festival )

Halloween Party

Tanabata Festival

Nature

Our school is located at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono city, Shizuoka prefecture, with the area of about 700.000㎡ (70ha, 173ac). There are tea plantations, forests, a camping field and a heli-port in our school grounds where students can do orienteering, camping, playing golf, etc.

You will also see some wild birds and animals, such as monkeys, rabbits and deer. If you are interested in the plants and insects in our campus, please visit https://www.fujiseishin-jh.ed.jp/field_diary/　to read "the Field Journal."

There is a Retreat House in our campus run by our sisters. It is an ideal place for making retreats and many people come here to pray. By the Retreat House, there is a Camping House where many children and young people come to be in touch with nature.

FUJI NOEN

Fuji Noen is a tea plantation in the area of Fuji Sacred Heart School. Its history began in the early Meiji Period, when 7 Hatamoto, direct retainers of the Shogun of the Edo Period, cultivated the land and ground tea leaves. Later the farm was succeeded by Mr. Tozaburo Suzuki, a business man known as “Father of the Japanese Sugar Industry.” The farm started to be known as “Suzuki Nojo (Farm),” with a focus on producing fruits, dairy products and timber.

In the Taisho Period, a successful banker, Mr. Kiyochika Iwashita took over Suzuki Farm and named it “Fuji Noen.” He started the modernization of agriculture and founded “Onjo Primary School” for those living in the area. Fuji Noen was inherited by his eldest son, Mr. Soichi Iwashita, who was a Catholic priest, the Director of Koyama Fukusei Hospital and the First Headmaster of Onjo Primary School. In 1945 Fuji Noen was donated to the school by the Iwashita Family.

Fuji Noen has breathtaking views and provides opportunities to experience aspects of tea production such as tea picking and to research the diversity of plants and animals in the school area.

Please visit https://www.seishin-fujinouen.jp/ to read more about Fuji Noen. You can also read “The Society of the Sacred Heart in the Far East 1908-1980” by Margaret Williams, RSCJ. (PDF)

Sophiage Project

In commemorating the occasion when Mt. Fuji became a world heritage site, “Tadanishiki”, a Japanese black tea only grown in Fuji Farm, became registered as the Susono Brand by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Also “Sophiage”, and Tadanishiki sweets, are registered on the register of the Japan Patent Office.