Transportation Guide

A. From Narita airport (NRT) to conference site Take a train or bus to a terminal, and take a taxi from there. See “B. From Narita Airport to Hotels” and “C. From Hotels to Conference site.”

Nippori

Keisei Line Higashi-

Kitazawa Downtown

Odakyu line

Bus Conference Bus Narita Airport site (NRT) Keio Line JR Line

Shibuya - Tokyo Komaba-Todai-Mae Shinagawa Line

Haneda Airport (HND)

B. From Narita airport to hotels If you are staying at a hotel in Shinjuku or , you can get there from Narita Airport by several ways: (a) Take a limousine bus bound for Shinjuku or Shibuya. Then take a taxi to your hotel. The limousine takes about an hour and a half and costs 3,000JPY. To major hotels in the Shinjuku area, there are several direct buses. For the Shibuya area, Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyo is at the Keio . Please visit http://www.limousinebus.co.jp/e/index.html for more information about the limousine bus.

(b) Take NEX () on the JR line. It takes an hour and a half and costs 3,110JPY. NEX runs every 30 minutes. However, although some NEX trains stop at Shibuya, most do not. All seats in NEX are reserved, so you need to buy a reservation ticket at the Narita Airport. For a timetable, see http://www.jreast.co.jp/nex/timetable/from_narita/shinjyuku/index.html. For more information about NEX, see http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/nex/index.html.

C. From hotel area to conference site The easiest way is to take a taxi, but you can use public transportation, too. The conference is held on the 2nd floor of A-block in our institute. See also http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/map/index.html for details. Look particularly at the page of the campus map for the Komaba campus. Choices are: (a) Take a taxi at your hotel. The taxi fee from the Shinjuku area to the conference site will be about 2,000-3,000JPY, and from the Shibuya area will be about 1,000-2,000JPY. It takes about 10-20 minutes. Your taxi will arrive at our main gate. (b) From the Shibuya area, take the local train on the Keio line at the Shibuya station. Get off at the second stop, named Komaba-Todai-mae. (Do not take the express train; it does not stop at this station.) Walk along the railroad in the direction in which your train is going, and you will arrive at the site in 5-10 minutes. (c) From the Shinjuku area, get on the Odakyu line at the Shinjuku station. The Shinjuku station is a terminal station in Tokyo, so please watch carefully for signs to the Odakyu line or you might get lost in the station. Choices are:

• Take the local train, which departs at the underground level. Get off at the 5th stop, Higashi-Kitazawa station, and a 10-minute walk will bring you to the conference site. • Take the express train, which departs at the ground level. Get off at the next stop, -Uehara station, and a 15-minute walk will bring you to the conference site.

D. From (HND) to conference site/hotels We recommend taking the bus bound for Shibuya or Shinjuku (visit http://www.limousinebus.co.jp/e/index.html for detail information). If you prefer to use a train. take the Keikyu (Keihin-Kyuko) line for Shinagawa, and at Shinagawa, change to the JR for Shibuya and Shinjuku. See “C. from Shibuya/Shinjuku area to conference site.”

E. From to conference site/hotels Shinkansen (bullet train) arrives at the or the . You can take the JR Yamanote line to get to the Shibuya and Shinjuku areas. Also, you can take the JR Chuo line from the Tokyo station to the Shinjuku station. See “C. from Shibuya/Shinjuku area to conference site.”

F. Other useful information You can find more information on the subway at http://www.tokyometro.jp/e/index.html, where you can download the subway network map.

For sightseeing, Shinjuku is one of the best terminals in Tokyo. (1) : The Odakyu line goes to Hakone-Yumoto, an entrance to the Hakone area. It takes one and half hours from Shinjuku to Hakone-yumoto on the special express. (2) Nikko: , at the end of the line, is a terminal of the Tobu line, and it is the gateway for Nikko. But there are also some trains from Shinjuku to Nikko.

(3) Mt.Fuji: There are several entrances for Mt. Fuji. One is Gotemba and another is Kawaguchi-ko. You can go to on the Odakyu line (special express Asagiri). You can take the JR Chuo line at Shinjuku to go to Kawaguchi-ko. From both Gotemba and Kawaguchi-ko, you need to get on a bus to Mr. Fuji. (4) Kamakura: Take the JR Shonan-Shinjuku line at Shinjuku or Shibuya and change to the at the Ofuna station.