Travel and Accommodation
Visa
Visas are required for some nationalities to travel to Japan for this
conference. Please contact your travel agent and/or the Japanese
Consulate/Embassy in your country for exact details and visa
application procedures. If you have any requests to local organizing
committee, please contact by e-mail (igs at lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp).
Accommodation Information
Online booking website of JTB (Japan Travel Bureau) is opened at https://mice.jtbgmt.com/igs2010/
A number of hotels ranging in price from budget to higher-end are
available within a walking distance of the symposium venue. A limited
number of rooms are reserved at these hotels for the symposium
period. Available accommodation as well as booking instructions is
providedby JTB (Japan Travel Bureau). To take advantage of the block
bookings, please reserve your rooms online by 31 May.
Please contact the travel agency of the conference (JTB: Japan Travel
Bureau) at IGS-Sapporo@jtb.jp for inquiries on the accommodation
booking and any other domestic travel information.
Venue
The symposium will be held at Hokkaido University in Sapporo. Sapporo
is the capital city of Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of
Japan, and is well known for its snowy winter, with a cumulative
snowfall of more than 5 metres. There is no other city in the world
with a population of nearly 2 million that accumulates this amount of
snow.
June is a wonderful season to visit the region. The city is filled
with fresh green along with a feast of flowers and the climate is
ideal for enjoying outdoor activities. Daily minimum and maximum
temperatures in June are 12 and °C, respectively. Hokkaido is not
influenced by the rainy season, which lasts from June to July in the
other regions of Japan. Further information on Sapporo is available at
http://www.welcome.city.sapporo.jp/english/.
The university campus is located close to the heart of the city. The
venue of the symposium is the University Conference Hall, 10 minutes
walk from Sapporo main railway station and within easy reach of the
city centre. Please refer to VENUE for
details of the session venue. More information about Hokkaido University is available here:
Hokkaido University:
http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/en/index.html
Travel to Sapporo
Sapporo's main airport is New Chitose Airport, which is connected to the city centre by JR
(Japan Railways Company) airport express train. The train runs about every 15 minutes,
takes about 40 minutes and costs 1,040 yen (one way).
JAL (Japan Air Lines), ANA (All Nippon Airways) and some other carriers operate 40-50 flights per day between Tokyo Haneda
Airport and New Chitose Airport (the world's busiest air route!). Several flights from Japan's
main international airports, Tokyo Narita, Kansai Osaka and Nagoya Central Japan, as well
as other regional airports are available per day. International flights are also operated from
Korea (Incheon Seoul and Pusan) and China (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Dalian).
For additional information, please visit:
New Chitose Airport website
Time table
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A view of Sapporo City from Moiwa-Yama