(1) How to get to your hotel from the airport
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How to get to Awaji Yumebutai directly from Kansai International Airport.
Take the Limousine Bus to Sannomiya.
At Sannomiya Bus Stop some students will wait for you in July 8 to get on the bus to Awaji Yumebutai.
See the following for more detail:
http://www.yumebutai.org/conf_e/index.html
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How to get to Osaka City University (OCU), Sugimoto Campus,
or the Hotel in Kansai Kenshu Center (KKC) from Kansai International Airport.
(KKC is located next to OCU, Sugimoto Campus.)
A recomended way to get to OCU, Sugimoto Campus or KKC from Kansai International Airport is by train of
Japan Railway (JR) West.
(Notice there is another line, Nankai Railway, in Kansai Airport.
Please take JR West train, NOT Nankai Railway.)
1. Proceed to the 2nd floor of the Airport building for the Japan Railway (JR) Kansai Airport Station
to buy a ticket for JR Sugimoto-cho Station (860 yen, available until 11:40 p.m.),
and take the JR Rapid Train (Kanku-kaisoku) bound for Tennoji/Kyobashi Station.
2. At JR Sakai-shi Station, change trains to the JR Hanwa Line and take a local train to
JR Sugimoto-cho Station.
3. Near the exit of JR Sugimoto-cho Station, there is a map of OCU, Sugimoto Campus.
From JR Sugimoto-cho Station, please come to OCU, Sugimoto Campus or KKC on foot.
It will take about 5 minutes to OCU, Sugimoto Campus, and 15 minutes to KKC.
See also:
http://www.osaka-cu.ac.jp/index-e.html,
http://www.aots.or.jp/eng/life/reach/kkc.html
Participants of "International Graduate Course Student
Workshop for Knot Theory and Related Topics" held in OCU Sugimoto Campus, July 5-7,
who attend "First KOOK Seminar International for Knot Theory and Related Topics" will be guided
to Awaji Yumebutai in July 8 by some Japanese students.
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(2) Excursion on Sunday
We make a bus tour to Himeji where Japan's most famous castle Himeji Castle stands. Rough Schedule is:
9:30 Departure
11:00-13:30 Engyoji Temple at Mt. Shosha-zan
14:00-16:30 Himeji Castle and Kouko-en Garden.
18:00-20:00 Dinner at a beer restaurant, "Munich Embassy" in Kobe
21:00 Return to the hotel
We first visit Engyoji Temple, which with over a 1,000 years of history was once a major training
center for priests of the Tendai section. A 4-minute ropeway ride will bring you to the top of
Mt. Shoshazan, where Engyoji Temple is located. Though it is near the busy city and the elevation
is only 371 m above sea level, you feel as if you were deep in the mountains.
A 15-minute stroll through the woods takes you to the main building, Maniden, where pilgrims from
all over Japan have special scrolls stamped with the temple seal (Engyoji is one of 33 pilgrimage
sites in western Japan). Walk through ancient forests to the Jikido, which once served as lodgings
for priests in training. With the Daikodo and Jogyodo, it creates a dramatic three-sided courtyard.
If you have seen the movie THE LAST SAMURAI, you may remember the conversation held in this temple.
After having luch at Mt. Shoshazan (hopefully we have a good weather)
we visit Himeji Castle and Kouko-en Garden. Himeji Castle, also called Shirasagijo (White Egret Castle) due to the fact that it appears as a white bird ready for flight, is the best preserved castle in all of Japan.
Incorporating both strategic design as well as a very conscious awareness of space, it functions as a military command, a center for political life, and as a monument to the glories of an earlier age.
In 1993, Himeji Castle was registered on UNESCO's World Heritage list,
because it is a wooden castle structure of incomparable worth in the world and because the whole structure including towers, stone ramparts, and earthen walls are extremely well preserved.
Kokoen Garden, which was built in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Himeji City., is located just west of Himeji Castle.
It is made up of 9 gardens, each having its own features, and in gardens an old manor, houses, and roads which were dug out have been reconstructed. There you will find a Japanese style tearoom, lakes, waterfalls and streams, around which flowers and trees flourish.
Finally, we move to Kobe and rush into a beer restaurant
"Munich Embassy" to enjoy Japanese beer.
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