International Symposium

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Manuscripts for proceedings are available in PDF format.

[New!] Hard copies of proceedings are available from Universal Academy Press

Kashiwa City is located 30 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. The access map to our institute is here. The "Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza" is 5-min walk from ICRR.

New Tokyo International (Narita) airport to Kashiwa
You can use railway or bus services. Detailed instruction is found here. (You can obtain a detailed railway map in greater Tokyo area here.)
The simplest way is to take a highway bus.

Kashiwa station to ICRR Univ.Tokyo/Kenmin Plaza
You can use bus services or taxis. See "Location" and transfer instruction and the map.
Here is the sheets in Japanese to show taxi/bus drivers.

Maps of Kashiwa city and station etc.
See here.

Visa
For many countries visa is not rquired to enter Japan for a visit less than 90 days, but depends on your nationality. See here for detailed information.

Weather
September is the time weather is changing into autumn and rather good season to visit Japan. The average temperature is about 23degree Celcius (average maximum: 26.5degree, average minimum: 20.2degree) and the relative humidity is 78% on average.

General travel information: Yahoo travel: Japan Chiba prefecture tourist information

Except for those who come from abroad, each participant is requested to make his/her own reservation. Hotel information (in Japanese) is available here.

For overseas participants, rooms are available at the ICRR Kashiwa Lodge, the Guest Accommodations in "Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza" and the hotels listed below. To reserve your room, please indicate your accommodation preference (the hotel name), arrival and departure dates and other information if necessary in your registration request. Due to the limited number of rooms, LOC may assign other hotels than your preference. (Prices below are per person per night.) Click here for hotel location.

1. ICRR Kashiwa Lodge (JPY 2,500 /night)

• Located at ICRR Kashiwa Campus (Five- minutes walk to the symposium site)
• All single rooms.
• No meal is available at the Lodge, but the ICRR Cafeteria nearby is open from 11:30 to 20:00 (from Monday to Friday). Breakfst items and other foods are available at a neaby convenience store.
• Can be booked from September 25 to 28 (4 nights), and only a limited number of rooms will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Credit cards cannot be accepted, and payment must be made in Japanese Yen.

2. Guest Rooms in "Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza" (JPY 3,320/night)

• Located in the same building as the symposium hall.
• No meal is available at the Lodge, but the Cafeteria is open during lunch time. For breakfast and dinner, reservation should be made in advance.
• Can be booked from September 25 to 28 (4 nights), and only a limited number of rooms will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Credit cards cannot be accepted, and payment must be made in Japanese Yen.

3. Kashiwa Plaza Hotel (JPY 5,985/night)

• Breakfast not included.
• Located near Kashiwa Station and the bus stop for the symposium site and ICRR
• Credit cards cannot be accepted, and payment must be made in Japanese Yen.

4. Hotel Sungarden Kashiwa

• Breakfast included.(JPY 9,870/night)
• Breakfast not included.(JPY 8,820/night)
• Located near Kashiwa Station
• Credit cards are accepted.

1) It will take about 30 minutes from the above hotels near Kashiwa Station to the symposium site, Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza, and ICRR.

2)Public bus transportation is available between Kashiwa Station and the symposium site. It takes about 30 minutes.(Click here for the bus schdule (sorry this includes Kanji characters).)

On Septermber 25, there is a reception party at the sixth floor of Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kashiwa campus during 18:00-20:00. Every participants including accompanying persons are invited. Drinks and snacks will be served at free of chage. (See here for location.)

Only Japanese yen in cash is acceptable as payment at the registration desk. Neither credit cards nor checks are acceptable there. (For exchange rate see here.)

No banks are located near the symposium site and ICRR. However, an ATM of Post Office is located at "Kokuritsu Gan Centre" (National Cancer Centre), about 5-minute walk from the site, and open weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00. Major credits careds such as Visa and MasterCard are accepted. (Click here for more information.)

Consumer tax: You have to pay consumer tax of additional 5% when you purchase goods or services in Japan.

   Geoffrey Bicknell (Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, 
     Australian National Univ.)
   Bernard Degrange (LPNHE-X, Ecole Ploytechnique)
   Masataka Fukugita (ICRR, Univ. Tokyo)
   Werner Hofmann (MPI, Heidelberg)
   Ocker de Jager(Potchefstroom Univ.)
   Tadashi Kifune (Shinshuu Univ.)
   Katsuji Koyama (Kyoto Univ.)
   Eckart Lorenz (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munchen)
   Rene Ong (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
   Reinhard Schlickeiser (Lehrstuhl fur Theoretische Physik IV der
     Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
   Simon Swordy (Univ. Chicago)
   Fumio Takahara (Osaka Univ.)
   Heinrich Voelk (MPI, Heidelberg)
   Trevor Weekes (Smithsonian Astrophys. Obs.)

   Ryoji Enomoto (Co-chair of LOC, ICRR)
   Shuichi Gunji (Yamagata Univ.)
   Masaki Mori (Co-chair of LOC, ICRR)
   Kyoshi Nishijima (Tokai Univ.)
   Toru Taimori (Kyoto Univ.)
   Shohei Yanagita (Co-chair of LOC, Ibaraki Univ.)