Venue and Transportation

Venue

ISMAR 2015 will be taken place at the following places.

• Fukuoka International Congress Center
• Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel and Hall
• Fukuoka City Museum
• Hotel Okura

In addition, ISMAR 2015 Banquet will be held at the Hotel Okura on Oct. 1st. You can confirm each event and location at the following table and map.

	International Congress Center	Sunpalace	City Museum
Sep. 29	-----	Workshop Tutorial	MASH'D Workshop Workshop Reception*2
Sep. 30	Main Conference*1 Tracking Competition	-----	Art Exhibition
Oct. 1		-----
Oct. 2		-----
Oct. 3	Workshop Tutorial	-----

*1: Keynotes, S&T Papers and Posters, MASH'D Papers, Posters, and Panels, S&T and MASH'D Demos
*2: The ISMAR conference provide the free shuttle bus from the international congress center to the city museum on Sep. 29th for participating in the workshop reception and the art exhibition opening.




Large Map

Fukuoka International Congress Center

ISMAR 2015 main conference and Tutorials and Workshops on Oct. 3rd will be hosted at the Fukuoka International Congress Center in Fukuoka, Japan.

Detailed access and location information can be available from the following webpage. Please refer to this page when you consider your accommodation.

http://www.marinemesse.or.jp/eng/congress/access/

Address: 2-1 Sekijo-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, 812-0032 Japan

Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel and Hall

Tutorials and Workshops on Sep. 29th will be taken place at the Fukuoka Sunpalace in Fukuoka, Japan. The Fukuoka Sunpalace is just next to the Fukuoka International Congress Center.

Address: 2-1 Chikko Hon-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, 812-0021 Japan

Fukuoka City Museum

Art Exhibition will be taken place at the Fukuoka City Museum. In addition, workshop reception will be held on Sep. 29th.

Detailed access and location information can be available from the following webpage.

http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/en/access.html

Address: 3-1-1, Momochihama, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0001 Japan

Hotel Okura

The ISMAR 2015 Banquet will be held at the Hotel Okura. It takes 20 min. from the Fukuoka International Congress Center by walk.

Detailed access and location information can be available from the following webpage.

http://www.okura.com/domestic/kyusyu/okura_fukuoka/

Address: Hakata Riverain 3-2 Shimokawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, 812-0027 Japan

Arriving by Plane:

Traveling to Fukuoka, Japan is quite easy. Fukuoka offers a lot of direct air connections with international airports around Asia such as Incheon (Korea) and Changi (Singapore) airports and connecting flights to the rest of the world through Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) and Narita International Airport (Narita).
Especially, Haneda airport is very convenient for visiting Fukuoka. In case of Europe, there are direct flights from Paris, London, Frankfurt, and Munich. For people from the United States, direct flights are available from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Moreover, lots of direct flights are available from airports in all around Asia.
Connecting flights are also convenient from Haneda to Fukuoka. You can find more than 50 direct flights everyday. The journey from Haneda to Fukuoka takes about 2 hours.
Hakata Station, the central area of Fukuoka, is 5 minutes away from Fukuoka Airport by train. The trains run every 10 minutes, and the cost is 260 yen. You can also reach Hakata Station by Taxi. It takes around 15 minutes and the total cost is about 1400 yen. In addition, you can find a lot of hotels around Hakata Station. If you want to go to the venue directly from the airport, it is accessible by a train ride followed by bus which takes about 30 minutes.

Accessing by Bullet Train (Domestic Transportation):

If you want to take bullet train (Shinkansen), Shinagawa Station is the closet one from Haneda Airport. You can reach to Shinagawa station by train (Keikyu Airport Line). It takes about 5 hours from Haneda Airport to Hakata Station by train and the fee is about 22,000 yen. It should be noted that the last bullet train departs from Shinagawa Station around 18:30. If your flight is scheduled to arrive at Haneda Airport after 18:00, using an airplane is a safer choice. The last flight from Haneda to Fukuoka is around 20:00.

In addition, if you will attend to ISMAR 2015 after ISWC 2015 and Ubicomp 2015 which are going to be held in Osaka, you can travel to Fukuoka by Shinkansen. Shinkansen will stop at Hakata Station and it takes almost 2.5 hours. You can find a train easily since more than 100 trains run from Osaka to Hakata everyday.