The teacher, Yuko-sensei, runs a very nice little school in the classroom of a kindergarten attached to the Togo shrine, of all places. The building was built in the 1953, and although it is very nice, the first time we went I thought, "I wouldn't like to be here in a big earthquake". Sure enough, towards the end of the class the building was shaken by a long quake.
The Tōgō Shrine (東郷神社 Tōgō-jinja) was built in 1940 and dedicated to Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō. Admiral Togo was commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet during Russo-Japanese war and famous for destroying the Russian fleet at the battle of Tsushima in 1905. He had studied in England for 7 years, and was praised by the British press as the 'Nelson of the East'. So perhaps his shrine is an appropriate location for a Royal Academy of Dance class after all.
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