Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan:
VISA
- Please check the dedicated page: VISA information
Currency:
- Japanese Yen (JPY)
Electricity / Power outlet
- 100 V, 50 Hz
- Sockets: Type A, 2-pin
- You better have plugs with two flat prongs with the same width. Plugs with one prong wider than the other would not fit into all the sockets. Type B (3-pin) sockets are equipped only in some places
Flights:
- There are two major airports, Narita (NRT) and Haneda (HND). You can specify Tokyo (TYO) in searching for your flights.
Transport between the Airports to Tsukuba:
- From/To Narita airport:
- https://www.narita-airport.jp/en/access
- The most reasonable is to take a highway bus (Fare: 2,400 JPY). The ticket counter can be found in the arrival floor at each terminal. Buses to the airport better be reserved as early as possible, either at the ticket counter at Tsukuba-center, or on-line at https://japanbusonline.com/CourseSearch/10800060001
- The buses arrive/depart at Tsukuba-center (see below).
- From/To Haneda airport:
- The easiest to travel from Haneda airport to Tsukuba is to take a highway bus (Fare: 1,900 JPY). The ticket counter can be found in the arrival floor at each terminal. https://tokyo-haneda.com/en/access/bus/index.html
- As for going to the airport, it is not recommended to take a bus, unless you take a night flight, for there can be a huge delay due to traffic jams in and around Tokyo. There are several ways to get there: https://tokyo-haneda.com/en/access/train/index.html
- Get off Tsukuba Express at Kita-Senju, take a JR train to Shinagawa, and Keikyu Line to Haneda Airport.
- Get off Tsukuba Express at Akihabara, take a JR train to Hamamatsucho, and Tokyo Monorail Line to Haneda Airport.
- Get off Tsukuba Express at Kita-Senju, take Hibiya Line to Ningyo-cho, and Asakusa Line, where you see trains coming from Narita Airport bound for Haneda Airport.
- More different routings are possible
- By Train:
- If you come by train from the Airport to Tsukuba, first go towards Tokyo (not necessarily the Tokyo Station, but somewhere in the city), find a connection to Tsukuba Express line (https://www.mir.co.jp/en/), take either a Rapid, a Commuter Rapid, or a Semi-Rapid train, and get off at the terminal station "Tsukuba". (Some of the local trains do not reach "Tsukuba")
PASMO / SUICA: IC cards for public transportation
- Having one of those cards would ease your moving around with public transportation in Japan, especially when you take a bus every day to get to the meeting venue.
- The cards can also be used for small shopping, not everywhere but the shop at KEK accepts payment by these IC cards
- PASMO: You can purchase one at the airports https://www.pasmo.co.jp/visitors/en/
- SUICA: https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/suica.html
- See also https://www2.kek.jp/rso/eng/BeforeCome/PASMO-Suica.html
Tuskuba center
- "Tsukuba" station of Tsukuba Express line is situated underground
- Highway busses arrive in and depart from the "Tucukuba center" bus terminal
- Buses to KEK (the venue) also depart from the bus terminal, bus stops No.5 or No.3
Tsukuba center to KEK
- See Meeting Venue
More information
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