ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Plenary
meeting
23–28, May 2010
Joining
Instructions
What’s New
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Credit card payment service
is terminated!! The URL of domestic (JR-East)
railway time tables is added. |
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Registration Started! |
Please click the link here.[Plenary Registration]
(For Japanese delegates, please click the link here.[Japanese Registration page)]
Host
Information Processing Society
of
Organizer
IPSJ /ITSCJ
Organizer contact: Jacky Takahashi at: inq-sc7niigata@itscj.ipsj.or.jp
Meeting location
Address: 6-1, Bandai-jima, Niigata-city, 950-0078, Japan
Web: http://www.tokimesse.com/english/
The Venue
(When you take a taxi from Niigata International Airport or Niigata Station
and go to the venue, give a hard copy of the above map to a driver pointing out
the place)
About Niigata
The city of Niigata lies on
about the same latitude as Tianjin, Lisbon and San Francisco. Located 250 km
north-northwest of Tokyo, Niigata City is two hours away from the capital by
bullet train on the Joetsu Shinkansen
line. Niigata City has a population of 810,000 and an area of 726.1 km2. It
also has a rich natural environment with many bodies of water, including the
Sea of Japan, the Shinano River, the Agano River, lagoons and wetlands. The fertile fields of
the vast Echigo Plain produce a multitude of
rice-based products and agricultural produce in addition to making Niigata
Japan's number one producer of tulips and various other flowers.
Niigata City's transportation
infrastructure is equipped with an international airport and seaport,
high-speed bullet train, and a network of highways. With both a sound
commercial base and the largest area of rice-fields in all of Japan, Niigata
city's unique characteristics and capabilities combine to make it a distinctly
attractive city.
Details are available at http://www.city.niigata.jp/e_page/e_index.html.
Chinese, Korean and Russian web pages are also available from the menu of the
top English page.
Cities having close relationship with Niigata
Meeting schedule outlines
Registration: May 23rd(Sun)
- 28th(Fri) 09:00-17:00
Meetings:
SC7 Plenary meeting: May
24th(Mon) 10:00-11:00.
28th(Fri) 13:30-15:30
Advisory Group meeting: May
23rd(Sun) 10:00-, 27th(Thu)
18:00-
WGs meeting:
May
24th(Mon) 11:30-18:00.
25th(Tue)-27th(Thu) 09:00-18:00,
28th(Fri)
09:00-12:30
Social
Events:
Welcome
reception: May
24th(Mon) 18:00
Delegation
dinner: May
26th(Wed)
Social
function: [TBD]
Facilities fee
Delegates are requested
to contribute a Facilities fee of JPY 10,000 (approximately US$ 110).
The organizer terminated
Credit card payment service on 14th May.
Every late registered delegates are requested to pay on site by cash (by Japanese
Yen only).
Please see registration
procedure in the next section.
Special Note for Japanese
Deletes: 日本からの参加者は，銀行振込か現金払いでお願いします。
Plenary registration
All delegates are requested to submit the
registration form (in Excel format) as soon as possible!!
(Even though the organizer accepts registrations of
NB accredited delegations until the final day of the meeting, the organizer can
not offer complimentary lunches if the registration is not confirmed before
afternoon in JST of 19th May).
Please follow the procedure below to complete your
registration.
1) Please download the
registration form (Excel format) by clicking the link below.
For
non-Japanese delegates: [Registration form (Excel format)]
For
Japanese delegates: [Registration form in Japanese
(Excel format)]
Fill the registration form.
2) Send your completed
registration form (in Excel format) to the organizer at:
reg-sc7niigata@itscj.ipsj.or.jp
3) You will
receive confirmation e-mail from the organizer within a few days.
Please feel free to contact to the
organizer for any questions or assistances at :
inq-sc7niigata@itscj.ipsj.or.jp
Transportation
1.
From abroad
There
are two convenient airports available.
(1)
New Tokyo International Airport(Narita International
Airport)
http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html
(2)
http://www.niigata-airport.gr.jp/ (Japanese)
Click HERE for the English page
2. From
Airports to
Domestic train time tables are
available on JR-East railways
http://jreast-shinkansen-reservation.eki-net.com/pc/english/common/timetable/index.html
(1)
The convenient way to get to
(about 1
hour, 2,940yen)
(see web
site http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/index.html)
From
Tokyo Station you take Joetsu-Shinkansen to get to
Niigata Station. They are several
lines of Shinkansen in Tokyo Station. Be sure
to take "Joetsu-Shinkansen".
(about 1 hours 40minutes by the
fastest ones, about 2 hours by others. Fare is 10,270yen. Fares are subject to seasons)
We
are sorry, but there is no connection flights from
(2) Niigata International Airport (IATA
Airport Code: KIJ)
It is really convenient to get to
There are two way to get to Niigata Station.
Taxi (20 minutes, 2,500yen, approximately)
Airport bus (25 minutes, 400yen, departing synchronized with an arrival of
airplane). You should buy a bus ticket in advance from a ticketing machine near
the bus stop.
You can also get directly to the conference venue from Niigata International
airport by the following transportation;
Taxi (20 minutes, 2,500yen, approximately)
3. From
Niigata Station
to the conference venue
Bandai Exit of JR Niigata Station is the
most convenient exit to the conference venue. We recommend to take this exit.
Taxis
You can find a taxi stand a little
bit to your left hand side just when you leave the Bandai Exit.
Taxi is convenient for you to move
from Niigata Station to Toki Messe Convention Center.
(about 5
minutes, 900yen)
Buses
You can also find a bus
terminal to your left hand side of the Bandai Exit.
Take a bus arriving at No.5
track. Buses depart every 20 minutes and it takes around 10 minutes to the
conference venue.
It costs you 200 yen.
NOTE:
Taxis may not and buses do not accept credit cards. You should prepare
necessary amount of cash. The best way to reach your destination without
mistake is to print out this page and show the following to a bus or taxi
driver pointing out the red part of the map. He/she will have pleasure to help
you. Gratuity is not our custom.
Accommodations
By the special offer of the Hotel Nikko Niigata, the
following block-reserved rooms will be available between May 22nd (Sat.
Check-in) to May 29th (Sat. Check-out).
Single
rooms (80 rooms):
Twin
rooms (20 rooms)
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Nikko Niigata Specially Offered
Tariff |
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Room Type |
Specially Offered Tariff |
Regular Tariff |
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Single smoking |
From 9,000 Yen To 10,500 Yen |
From 13,860 Yen To 15,860 Yen |
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Twin |
From 13,500 Yen To 20,000 Yen |
From 23,100 Yen To 37,185 Yen |
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Single non smoking |
From 9,000 Yen To 10,500 Yen |
From 13,860 Yen To 31,720 Yen |
(These
room rates include breakfast(optional), service charge and tax.)
Please click the link below to visit the special
web-page for this SC7 block-reservation.
[SC7
block-reservation special Web-page]
(It is to be noted that some internet travel agents
may be still offering less expensive early-bird special discount rates in this
moment).
It is strongly recommended to make a reservation well
in advance, even though a sufficient number of hotel rooms are available in
Niigata city.
Please click the link below for a list of recommended
hotels.
[Recommended
hotels in Niigata Plenary Meeting]
Staffs of these hotels are expected to understand
English.
For your information, the Hotel Nikko Niigata is the
nearest hotel to the meeting venue: Toki Messe. The hotel building is directly connected
to the venue.
Please note that:
1)
room rates shown in the list are
regular prices, which include service charge and tax (as of December,
2009). Discount rates may be
available in some case from hotels' web-sites or your travel agents. Please confirm by yourself that your discount rate
includes service charge and tax.
2)
for
telephone and fax calls from overseas, you should place country code(81) and
area code(25) before those numbers indicated in the list.
VISA and entry requirements
Please consult to Japanese embassy or your travel
agency for the VISA and entry requirements. If you need an invitation letter
for acquisition of a Visa, please contact Ms. Ayuko Nagasawa (inq-sc7niigata@itscj.ipsj.or.jp)
as soon as possible.
Currency
Japanese currency is Japanese YEN(JPY).
Just for your information, in Nov. 2009, approximate
exchange rates are USD 1 = JPY 90, and EUR 1 = JPY 135 .
Major currencies(e.g., USD, EUR) can be exchanged at
the banks(Mon-Fri 09:00-15:00), post office(Mon-Fri 09:00-16:00) or the major
hotels.
24-hour ATMs are available in the city of Niigata.
Various worldwide credit cards(e.g.
AMEX, VISA, MASTERS, DINERS) are available in major hotels, shops, and
restaurants.
However, it is strongly recommended to have some
amounts of Japanese Yen in cash in case of credit cards unavailability. Except
for special areas like international airports, foreign currencies are not
accepted.
Electricity supply
The power supply is 100 volts and 50 Hertz. Plugs
should have two flat-pins (i.e. two-prong A-type plugs, it is compatible with
the 2-pins plugs in USA).
Local time
Universal Coordinated Time (=GMT) by 9 hours (UTC+9,
JST)
Climate
In May, average temperature of
Please also see
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