Evening 12/3(Mon) near the conference venue.
Welcome drink will be served and a registration desk will also open.
Please get together, register and receive the conference kit.
We look forward to seeing you in Omiya, Saitama in 2018.
Conference Dinner
Evening 12/7(Fri) at the Railway Museum, near the conference venue.
Excursion
Afternoon 12/6(Thu)
Several programs including short bus trips around Saitama will be arranged as follows.
Application is required at your conference registration.
Each tour is subject to change depending on the number of applicants.
JR East Omiya General Rolling Stock Center
Omiya, 15 minutes by walk.
Guided tour.
Founded in 1894, the Omiya General Rolling Stock Center is a major railyard center of the JR EAST. Today, it serves for daily inspection, regular maintenance and repair of trains actively operating, as well as for restoration of heritage steam locomotives. Guided tour to the site of inspection, maintenance and restoration.
Honda Motor Company is a Japanese corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles. Honda has a deep tie with the Saitama prefecture, and is operating three automobile plants and one R&D ceter (, which is found right next to the RIKEN wako campus). Guided tour to the assembly line at the Sayama automobile plant.
* This tour is subject to cancellation if our application is not selected in the lottery.
The Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) is a facility of radioactive isotope beams at the RIKEN Wako campus. The facility is capable of producing a wide range of radioactive isotopes via the fragmentation reaction or fission of 238U in-flight. Guided tour to the accelerators complex, the fragment separator BigRIPS and to experimental vaults.
Iwatsuki is an old city of Saitama developped around a castle built in the 15th century. Also known as a city of traditions, today Iwatsuki is a home to many old breiweries and doll craft houses. We will visit one of the breweries, Suzuki Shuzo Sake Brewery and a doll craft house, Suzuki Ningyo.
Omiya is a favorite destination for Bonsai (trees in small containers) enthusiasts traveling into Japan. The so-called Bonsai village is a neighborhood in Omiya that hosts several top Bonsai nurseries. We will make a visit to one these nurseries and then to the Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore, where national treasures and cultural heritages from the stone age to today are displayed.
Located in the east of Omiya, Kawagoe is known locally as "Little Edo" (Koedo) after the old name for Tokyo, due to its many historic buildings, old temples and shrines. Popular sites include the bell tower from 17th century, Kurazukuri Street with traditional warehouses, or the temple Kita-in. Free walk around this historic city.
Cocoon City is a shopping mall close to the city center of Omiya, where you can find all you want: souvernirs, daily goods, Japanese foods or clothes. The mall also has a movie theater, book store, supermarket and even car dealers nearby.
The area near Cocoon City is also a home to the Japan Mint and its museum. You can freely make a visit to the museum and also to the facility where coins and medals are manufactured.
Orange orchards at Tokigawa
Tokigawa, one and half hours by bus (map).
Free picking at orange orchards.
Tokigawa is a town in the western part of Saitama. In the town of countryside is a little mountain called Mt. Otsuki, where several cultivars are raising trees of oranges in orchards. In this visit to Mt. Otyuki, you can enjoy an all-you-can-eat course of various types of oranges on sunny slopes.
