Dear colleagues,

We are very much looking forward to seeing you at HEACC2001 beginning with
our reception this coming Sunday (25th March)!  We present below some last
minute details for your convenience.

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HEACC2001
March 26-30, 2000 at Epochal Tsukuba
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Welcome: Sunday March 25, starting at 17:30
         Restaurant "Espoire",  Epochal Tsukuba Building 1F.


Registration: Sunday March 25, 17:30 to 20:00,
              Registration desk, Epochal Tsukuba Building 1F.
              26(Monday) - 29, 9:00 to 17:00
              Room 102 Registration desk, Epochal Tsukuba 1F


Note: You will have to register and pay all due fees in order to obtain your
conference material.  This includes your banquet ticket (Please purchase
any additional banquet tickets for accompanying persons at this time).

Weather

Yahoo! Whether: Mito, Tokyo
Satellite: Cloud, Water Vapor, East Asia Precipitation

How to come to Epochal Tsukuba (HEACC2001)

Locations

Epochal Tsukuba (HEACC2001 conference site) is located about 60km northwest of Narita, and also 60km north of Tokyo. There are two ways to come to Tsukuba Center, where Hotels and conference site (Epochal Tsukuba) are located, from Narita airport.

Note: KEK is at north of Tsukuba Center. The distance between KEK and Tsukuba center is about 12km.

Narita International Airport

There are two terminals at the Narita international airport. There is a free circulating shuttle bus between terminal 1 and terminal 2 every 5 minutes.
Please remember which terminal you arrived at.

Terminal 1 in the Narita international airport: For information, please view Arrival Lobby map.

Terminal 2 in the Narita international airport: For information, please view Arrival Lobby map. (Satellite Arrival Consorse)

Narita to Tsukuba Center

An airport bus(Airport Liner) runs from both terminal 1 and 2 to Tsukuba Center. See timetable bellow. Tickets must be purchased (2,450Yen) in advance for the Airport Liner at the arrival lobby. (Tickets counter at terminal 1 , Tickets counter at terminal 2) The Airport bus leaves bus stop 1 at the terminal 1 and bus stop 12 at the terminal 2. There are many different lines departing from the same bus stop. Please take the bus that goes to Tsukuba Center.

The timetable for Airport Liner (NATT'S)

Departure from Narita Airport
  Narita Airport 7:20  9:05 10:35 12:50 14:35 16:15 17:20 18:40 20:00 
  Tsukuba Center 9:00 10:45 12:15 14:30 16:15 17:55 19:00 20:20 21:40 

Departure from Tsukuba Center
  Tsukuba Center 6:20 7:20  8:50 10:20 11:55 13:25 14:35 15:50 17:35 
  Narita Airport 8:00 9:00 10:30 12:00 13:35 15:05 16:15 17:30 19:15

Tsukuba Center to Hotel and Epochal

Tsukuba Dai-ichi hotel is located(shown as 2) in the same block as Tsukuba Center(shown as 1) and is walking distance. It is about less than 100m. Please use the escalator at the corner of Tsukuba Center bus terminal, which will take you to Tsukuba Dai-ichi hotel. Epochal Tsukuba(shown as 4) International Congress Hall (HEACC2001 conference site) and Tsukuba Dai-ichi hotel (EPOCAL) (shown as 3) are one more further block. The reception desk is on the ground floor of Epochal Tsukuba. You need to walk about 6 to 10minutes from the Tsukuba Center Bus stop. The distance between Epochal and Tsukuba center bus terminal is about 600m. There is no public transportation to the hotel/conference site. Only Taxi is available if your luggages are too heavy. it takes only a few minutes.

Narita to Tokyo

(This rout is not recomended. We recomend to take "Narita to Tsukuba Center" airport bus)
Please take the Narita Express train to Tokyo station and then proceed to Yaesu-Minami-Guchi to take expressway bus for Tsukuba center. (see Tokyo to Tsukuba Center.)

Narita Airport Station ( at Terminal 1) Map

Narita Airport Terminal 2 Station Map

Tokyo to Tsukuba Center

We recommend taking an expressway bus (called " highway" bus in Japanese, but written as an expressway bus on signboards) from Tokyo station to Tsukuba. Buses leave Tokyo station from the Yaesu-Minami-Guchi gate. There are two lines at bus stop No. 2. The first is called the Tsukuba Line, which doesn't go to KEK, its last stop is Tsukuba Center. The second line is called the New Tsukuba-ne Line. Tickets for both lines must be bought before boarding the bus. The Tsukuba line bus does not stop on the highway, and stops only five times after leaving the highway, the last stop being Tsukuba Center. Leaving Tokyo station every fifteen minutes, the journey takes one hour and fifteen minutes and costs 1,250 yen.

Tsukuba Center to Tokyo

Please take same expressway bus to Tokyo or Ueno from bus stop 5 at Tsukuba Center.

Tsukuba Center to KEK

There are two alternatives for this trip, Taxi (about 3,000yen) or local bus (460yen). Taxis are always available at Tsukuba Center. The local bus departs from bus stop number 1 at Tsukuba Center. Of the eleven lines that depart from this bus stop, only two go to KEK(Kou-Enerugi-Ken,in Japanese). Buses travel to Techno-Park-Oho and Tsukuba Eki. As numbers are not assigned to these lines you must locate your bus by reading the Japanese characters (as above) on the front of the bus.

Map

Map of Japan,