After arriving in Tokyo, he stayed at his relatives house and enrolled in telegraph school but after learning it was not to his liking, he enrolled in the Naval Accounting School (neither school required tuition).
上京後は親族に寄食し、まず電信学校に入学したが志に合わず、その後に海軍主計学校へ入学することとなる（両校とも就学中は学費が必要なかった）。