Workshop Venue
[1] Transportation from Airport(s) to Tsukuba Center:
There are two international airports close to Tsukuba city center, one is "Narita" airport, and other one is "Naneda" airport. For both cases, the most convent way to go to Tsukuba center is the bus, a direct connection from the airport to Tsukuba center. You can find the bus time table, and fare in the following page. The bus ticket can be purchased at the bus counter at the airport.
1-1) Narita airport (NRT):
http://kantetsu.co.jp/bus/highway_tsuchiura_narita.html
(please select language from the Google mark "top right", select "英語")
- 2,200 yen, about 1 hour from airport to Tsukuba center.
1-2) Haneda airport (HND):
https://kantetsu.co.jp/bus/highway_tsukuba_haneda.html
(please select language from the Google mark "top right", select "英語")
- 1,850 yen, about 2 hours from airport to Tsukuba center.
For Haneda airpot case, you might choose the way by train, because the bus does not depart often. In that case, the following guide would be useful.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/access/tsukuba_access
There are several ways to go to Tsukuba center from Haneda airport. A typical way to reach Tsukuba center by trains is as follows. We recommend to use "Suica" or "Pasmo" card as shown in [2].
- Haneda airport (international terminal) ->
- Take "Tokyo Monorail" ->
- Get off at the terminal "Hamamatsucho" Station ->
- Transfer to "JR Yamanote line (green one)" or "JR Keihin-tohoku line (blue one)" at "Hamamatsucho" ->
- Get off at "Akihabara" Station ->
- Transfer to "TX (Tsukuba Express) at Akihabara->
- Get off at "Tsukuba" station (terminal of TX line).
* TX Tsukuba station is the "Tsukuba center".
[2] Suica or Pasmo card:
We would strongly recommend to buy " Suica" or "Pasmo" IC card, for the public transportation. It is quite useful, especially when you use the bus for the transportation between Tsukuba center and Tsukuba campus. At Narita airpot, you can but it at JR station in the Narita airport. At Haneda airport, you can buy it at the Haneda airport station for "Tokyo Monorail". This card is refundable.
The picture of those IC smart card:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4atu6il00odzrbf/IC_card.png?dl=0
[3] From Tsukuba center to Tsukuba campus, workshop venue
The workshop will be held on the first floor of the building "Center for Computational Sciences (CCS)". Here is the access guide to CCS.
3-1) At Tsukuba center bus terminal, please go to the bus stop No. 6.
3-2) Take any bus from here.
- Tsukuba Daigaku Chuo,
- Tsukuba Daigaku Junkan (right turn = clockwise),
- Tsukuba Daigaku Junkan (left turn = anti-clockwise).
3-3) We recommend to use "Suica" or "Pasmo" IC card when you get in.
3-4) here is the bus route.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/application/files/2015/1866/9064/100726campusbus_route_en.pdf
3-4) Get off at bus stop "Dai-Ichi Area Mae".
3-5) If you use IC card when you get in, please also use the card again when you get off.
3-6) After you get off at "Dai-Ichi Area Mae“, please follow the instruction. You just need to cross the main street, and you will find the dark brown building in front, that's the CCS.
3-7) CCS is located here.
https://goo.gl/maps/veRWW65xYFG2
Some instructions can be found here.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/access/tsukuba_access
-> Access to the University of Tsukuba from Tsukuba Station
There is a way to go to CCS by just walking! From Tsukuba center to CCS, it will take about 40 min...
