Venue
The conference will be held at the Nanakuma Campus of Fukuoka University. Fukuoka University was founded in 1934 and now has 29 departments in 9 undergraduate faculties and 32 majors in 10 graduate schools that together accommodate more than 21,000 students. For more details of Fukuoka University, see http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/.

(Front gate(left),view from sky(middle), and lecture room(right))
Registration desk on November 21 (Wednesday) is located on the 1st floor of building 22, the 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall. From November 22, the registration desk will be placed on 1st floor of building 9. A-. See campus maps. (campus map 1(pdf file), campus map 2(pdf file))

How to reach conference venue:
From Hakata station and Fukuoka airport

You take a subway of Kuko Line bound for Meinohama and get off at “Tenjin” station. Then, you walk toward “Tenjin-minami” station of subway Nanakuma Line through a shopping mall. It takes about 8 min on foot. You take a subway bound for Hashimoto and get off at Fukudai-mae station. See the campus map. (campus map 1(pdf file) It takes about 40 min from JR Hakata station, and about 50 min from Fukuoka Airport.

You can buy a through-ticket (Hakata or Airport – Tenjin –Fukudai-mae). Please note that you MUST PASS through a transfer ticket gate (in green) at Tenjin and do not forget the ticket. Otherwise, you have to buy one more ticket at “Tenjin-minami” station

How to buy a ticket for subway

You can buy a ticket at automatic ticket machines at any subway station. First, you find a fare to your destination on the fare panel and put a bill or coins into the machine. The change will be returned if any. At the ticket gate put the ticket in the machine and DO NOT FORGET to take it and keep it until you put it into the machine when you get out from the ticket gate. The machine takes the ticket at the station of your destination. When you change the Kuko Line to the Nanakuma Line or the reverse, please note that you MUST PASS THROUGH A TRANSFER TICKET GATE (in GREEN COLOR) at Tenjin and Tenjin-minami stations, and DO NOT FORGET to take the ticket back from the machine.

Useful information of subway

You can buy “F-card” that is a pre-paid card of 1100, 3400, and 5800 JPY at all subway stations. The prices of the cards are 1000, 3000 and 5000 JPY, respectively. Please note that the cards are not refundable in any case.

The card is inserted directly into the ticket machine at the gate in the same manner as regular tickets. Please remind that you should keep the cards when you get out the ticket gate. The fare is automatically deducted from the card when you exit the station of your destination. With F-card you can use any ticket gate when you change the subway lines.

FUKUOKA CITY
Fukuoka is the largest city in Kyushu Island, which is one of the main four large islands in Japan. Fukuoka is a modern city with a population of approximately 1,300,000. It is about 1,170 km from Tokyo, which is a 5 hour ride by train (Shin-Kansen) or 90 minute flight by air. Kyoto and Osaka are situated about halfway between Tokyo and Fukuoka. The climate of Fukuoka is generally mild, and the average temperature is ~15 °C (59 oF) in late November.

(Fukuoka Site-seeing places)

ACCESS

Fukuoka is reached by train and air from other major cities Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo.

By air: Fukuoka Airport has both Domestic and International terminals. There is a Shuttle Bus service connection between the Domestic and International Terminals. There are domestic flights to other major international airports in Japan: Kansai (Osaka), Centrair (Nagoya), and Narita (Tokyo) or Haneda (Tokyo) (which is a 75 min bus ride from Narita (fare 3000 JPY)). There are frequent flights (every 30~40 minnutes) between Haneda and Fukuoka. The international flights from Fukuoka go to major international airports in Asian countries. For more details http://fuk-ab.co.jp/ access02 (Fukuoka )
By train: Hakata is a terminal station of Tokaido-Sanyo line for Shin-kansen (bullet trains named as Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama) of West and Central Japan Railway Companies connected to Hiroshima, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Tokyo. For more details, see http://jr-central.co.jp/eng.nsf or http://www.westjr.co.jp/english/global.html
Subway: Fukuoka Airport is directly connected to the subway which provides immediate access to Hakata Railway Station 5 min, and to Tenjin, the city centre of Fukuoka (about 10 min).

Fukuoka University, the conference site, is reached by subway from Fukuoka Airport and Hakata railway station. Take subway Kuko-line and get off at Tenjin station. It is then a 10-min walk to the Tenjin Minami station of the Nanakuma subway line which is connected to Fukudai-mae station (16 min) which is in front of Fukuoka University gate. For the route map of subway see http://subway.city.fukuoka.jp/ A frequent bus service is also available at Hakata station and Tenjin. It takes about 40 min from Hakata and about 35 min from Tenjin to Fukuoka University.

Accommodation

Hotels

The following hotels can be booked via the conference desk. Reservations will be on a first-come first-served basis. Please indicate your order of preference on the application form and return it by 30 September to:

Koji Yoshida, SSCJ30 Conference Secretariat FAX: +81-92-865-6030

Code	Name of Hotel	Single (for 1 person)	Twin (for 2 persons)
A	Hotel New Otani Hakata	JPY 15,000	JPY 27,000
B	Takakura Hotel	JPY 10,000	JPY 17,000
C	Central Hotel Fukuoka	JPY 8,400	JPY 14,700
D	Fukuoka Toei Hotel	JPY 7,500	JPY 14,000
E	Nishitetsu Inn Tenjin	JPY 6,500	----

All rates are inclusive of breakfast, service charge, and tax. All rooms are air-conditioned with a bath, shower and w.c.

It takes ~30 minutes to reach the conference venue from these hotels by subway.

In the event of cancellation, written notification should be sent to the SSCJ30 Conference Secretariat.

Other Hotels

The following hotel booking websites are also available to find hotels and reserve a room by yourself. From Hakata railway station and Tenjin areas, it takes 20~30 minutes to reach the conference venue by subway.

http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/en/ (English)

http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/ (Japanese)

http://www.itravel.jp/ (English)

http://www.yadojozu.ne.jp/ (Japanese)

http://www.jalan.net/ (Japanese)

Fukuoka University Accommodation

Fukuoka University Accommodation is suggested for students. Please contact the SSCJ30 Conference Secretariat by 30 September by e-mail.

Only accommodation in a triple room is available with shared w.c. and bath. The price is 3,000 JPY per night and per person.　About 20 minutes by bus from the conference venue.