FLOPS 2006

Local Information

Venue

The meeting will be held at Fuji Institute of Education and Training (FujiKen) located in Fuji Susono, JAPAN, where the first FLOPS was held. It is famous for its view of Mt. Fuji.

Fuji-san

Transportation

Mt. Fuji is about 300 km east from Kyoto and about 150 km west from Tokyo. Any proper route from an airport to the conference site consists of 3 parts.

from Airport to City
from City Station to Local Station
from Station to FujiKen (conference site)

from Airport to City

In Japan, there are 4 main international airports, HANEDA (Tokyo), NARITA (Tokyo), KANSAI (Osaka) and CENTRAIR (Nagoya). Each airport has several access routes to its nearest city. Please remember that each route takes about 30--60 minuites or more.

By express is the most popular and comfortable way. By local train is more economical but not so comfortable because it takes much time and many passengers are taking trains around the city. By limousine bus is another comfortable way, whose fare is not so different from express one. Taking a taxi from an airport is not a good idea in Japan because it will cost too much.

from City Station to Local Station

If you come from the west side of Japan, first, you should aim at NAGOYA Station. If you come from the east side of Japan, first, you should aim at TOKYO Station.

The station nearest to FujiKen is IWANAMI Station and the nearest Shinkansen station is MISHIMA. Since most of participants will come via Shinkansen, FLOPS provides a free shuttle bus from MISHIMA Station to FujiKen.

We note that 3 kinds of Tokaido-Shinkansen exist. KODAMA stops at every station in the Shinkansen line. Some HIKARI stop at MISHIMA but most HIKARI pass through MISHIMA. Any NOZOMI never stops at MISHIMA. FLOPS participants must use KODAMA or appropriate HIKARI.

It might be possible to see an easy route and a difficult route as a red color and a blue color, respectively.

from TOKYO Station to MISHIMA Station
1. JPY 3890, in 60 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==Shinkansen== MISHIMA Sta.
2. JPY 2210, in 120 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== MISHIMA Sta.
from TOKYO Station to IWANAMI Station
1. JPY 4200, in 90 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==Shinkansen== MISHIMA Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== NUMAZU Sta. ==JR Gotenba Line== IWANAMI Sta.
2. JPY 2210, in 140 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== ATAMI Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== NUMAZU Sta. ==JR Gotenba Line== IWANAMI Sta.
3. JPY 2210, in 140 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== KOHZU Sta. ==JR Gotenba Line== IWANAMI Sta.
from NAGOYA Station to MISHIMA Station
1. JPY 7560, in 105 min.
  NAGOYA Sta. ==Shinkansen== MISHIMA Sta.
2. JPY 6720, in 120 min.
  NAGOYA Sta. ==Shinkansen== SHIZUOKA Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== MISHIMA Sta.
from NAGOYA Station to IWANAMI Station
1. JPY 6720, in 130 min.
  NAGOYA Sta. ==Shinkansen== SHIZUOKA Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== NUMAZU Sta. ==JR Gotenba Line== IWANAMI Sta.
2. JPY 7870, in 130 min.
  NAGOYA Sta. ==Shinkansen== MISHIMA Sta. ==JR Tokaido Line== NUMAZU Sta. ==JR Gotenba Line== IWANAMI Sta.
from TOKYO Station to Tomei SUSONO Bus Stop
1. JPY 1730, in 105 min.
  TOKYO Sta. ==Tomei Highway Bus== Tomei SUSONO
from NAGOYA Station to Tomei SUSONO Bus Stop
1. JPY 3670, in 300 min.
  NAGOYA Sta. ==Tomei Highway Bus== Tomei SHIZUOKA ==Tomei Highway Bus== Tomei SUSONO

from Station to FujiKen

FLOPS provides a free shuttle bus from MISHIMA Station to FujiKen at 4 pm. and 6 pm. on Apr 23 and from FujiKen to MISHIMA Station at the end of the conference on Apr 26. A free shuttle bus will not run on other days.

from MISHIMA Station to FujiKen
1. FREE, in 30 min. (about 4 pm. and 6 pm. on Apr 23)
  MISHIMA Sta. ==Shuttle Bus== FujiKen
2. about JPY 4100, in 30 min.
  MISHIMA Sta. ==Taxi== FujiKen
3. JPY 750, in 45 min.
  MISHIMA Sta. ==Local Bus== FujiKen
from IWANAMI Station to FujiKen
1. about JPY 1800, in 10 min.
  IWANAMI Sta. ==Taxi== FujiKen
2. JPY 310, in 20 min.
  IWANAMI Sta. ==Local Bus== FujiKen
from Tomei SUSONO Bus Stop to FujiKen
1. about JPY 1800, in 10 min.
  Tomei SUSONO ==Taxi== FujiKen
2. JPY 360, in 15 min.
  Tomei SUSONO ==Local Bus== FujiKen

Accommodation

There is few hotels around the conference site other than FujiKen itself. FLOPS 2006 arranges a booking for a room of FujiKen together with the conference registration. Please read the registration page, too.

If you would like to stay at another hotel, please make a reservation by yourself. There are several hotels around NUMAZU Station and much more hotels around MISHIMA Station. The web sites listed below in this page might help you to book a hotel.