Conference Hall

International House, Osaka,

8-2-6 Uehonmachi, Tennoji-ku, Osaka, 543-0001, Japan.
Phone: +81-6-6772-5931 (06-6772-5931 if calling within Japan)
Fax: +81-6-6772-7600 (06-6772-7600 if calling within Japan)
WWW: http://www.ih-osaka.or.jp/

The Conference Site is the "International House, Osaka" which is situated in the central region of Osaka City on the Uemachi-Daichi hill. There are many interesting places near by ; the Shitenno-Ji temple ( the first temple founded in Japan, within 1 km ), Shinsai-Bashi / Douton-Bori ( Shopping, cinema, restaurants, a flood of neon signs in Minami district, within 2.5 km ), Osaka-Jyo castle ( within 3 km ) and the "History Promenade path" on the Uemachi-Daichi hillside, and other attractions.

International House, Osaka

• Conference Rooms
• Registration Desk
• Secretary Desk
• Computing Environment

• Restaurant guide near International  Hotel

Registration Desk

The registration desk will be opened at the Conference site at 4:00 PM on July 26, the day before the Conference begins. The desk will be open until 8:30 PM, late enough for most people arriving at Kansai International Airport. We will open the registration desk at 8:15 AM on July 27.

We strongly encourage you to register on July 26, to avoid congestion on the first morning of the Conference. Free drinks will be served for those who come to register on July 26. In addition, we will offer a free map of Osaka and a free guide to Osaka to help you navigate around the city and find a place to eat. If you cannot register on July 26, please come earlier on July 27.

How to get to International House

The Conference hotels in downtown Osaka are within at most a 10 minute. subway-ride plus approximately a 10 minute walk from the International House.

It is strongly recommended to use the subway due to heavy surface traffic.
No arrangements will be done made a shuttle service between the Conference site and the hotels.

Please look a set of instructions on how to get to the Conference site ( i-house ) from the airports and the JR Shin-Osaka station.
In addition, you can find instructions on how to get to your hotel and how to get to the Conference site from the hotel in notes on hotels on the web.
 

Access to Conference Site

From Airports in Japan


• Kansai Airport   --- Limousine Bus (60 min) -- - Uehonmachi
• Narita Airport    --- Air ( 60 min)---     Osaka (Itami) Airport    --- Limousine Bus (30 min) ---    Uehonmachi
• Fukuoka Airport    --- Air ( 60 min)--- Osaka (Itami) Airport    --- Limousine Bus (30 min) ---    Uehonmachi

Map around International House

The i-House is a 5-minute walk from UehonmachiRailways in Osaka

• another map of railways in Osaka
 

Conference Secretary Desk

E-mail address : ichep2000@hep.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
Phone : +81-6-6772-9950 Fax : +81-6-6772-9960

The secretary desk is open from 8:15 until 18:00 in the GALLERY on the1st floor. The desk is closed on July 30, Sunday. The telephone and the fax are available only from July 26 to August 2. Before and after the Conference, the telephone and fax numbers are both +81-6-6850-5561.

Computing Environment

1. We will prepare 50 PCs running Linux in "Terminal Rooms" (T1-T4) at the Conference site for ICHEP participants.

Each PC will have
• telnet and ssh for people to login to their own host computers for reading / writing e-mails,
• Netscape web browser for accessing web mails and usual web browsing,
• X window environment, and
• usual UNIX software tools.

However, you WILL NOT be able to DOWNLOAD e-mails to the PCs at ICHEP2000 from your POP server by using an e-mail client such as Outlook Express, Eudora, or Netscape Communicator.
 
2. We will have dedicated PCs for speakers to prepare their talks.

There will be 5 PCs running Linux and a few PCs running Windows 98 with free software. Please note, however, that Windows will be in Japanese though the icons are the same.

3. Bring your laptop, please!

We will also prepare 40 10base-T (Ethernet) cables to connect your laptop computers at the Conference site.
If you bring a laptop, you can
• download e-mails from your own POP server,
• bring your complete working environment with you,
• avoid hassles with a slightly different Japanese keyboard layout, and
• avoid waiting in line for the terminals.

The IP address of your machine will be defined dynamically by using a DHCP server. Macintosh, Windows and Linux have DHCP capabilities. It is very easy to set up for DHCP, but if it is new to you, please ask someone familiar with computers.

With your laptop, you can also connect to the network from your hotel, although it is slower than at the Conference site. Some major internet service providers (ISPs) such as AT&T World Net, AOL, etc. have access points in Osaka, and some providers have roaming options to use access points of local ISPs. Please check with your ISP whether they have access points in Osaka before you come.

The hotels are equipped with RJ-11 telephone jacks. To reach outside the hotel, dial 0 first, usually by adding "0," in front of the phone number. Since you will not get the standard dial tone until you dial 0, configure your modem to ' ignore dial tone '. At some hotels, you must choose "pulse mode" instead of "tone mode" for dialing.

The AC power in Japan carries 100V at 60 Hz in the western part of Japan including Osaka. Most AC adapters accept 100-240V, and 50-60 Hz AC, but please check. The AC outlets accept two 6 mm wide and 17 mm long parallel blades separated by 12 mm. Most of the AC outlets do not have a hole for the third pin for ground, so you must prepare a 3 pin -> 2 pin converter if your AC plug has the third pin.

Restaurant guide near International House

Restaurant guide
Restaurant map