== Hotel information for the 10th Face to face meeting: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 2014 @ University of Toyama == ==== Outline ==== Please reserve your hotel by yourself ! We will NOT RESERVE hotel on behalf of you. The best way is that you reserve hotel near Toyama station. There are a lot of hotels, shops and restaurants there. It takes about 20 minutes from Toyama station to University of Toyama by tram or bus. Kazuhiro Yamamoto is not so sure that staffs of hotels can speak English because he has never asked something at Japanese hotels in English. In some hotels, you can ask in English. But Kazuhiro is afraid that such hotels are expensive. ==== Hotels which KAGRA and CLIO collaborators often stay ==== These hotels are near Toyama station. * Concept Hotel Wakyu([[http://waqhotel.com/|Japanese]],[[https://www3.yadosys.com/reserve/en/room/calendar/147/fhfehjffgjcphcedhafaefdn/all|English]]). This is Japanese style hotel. I mean that it is different from European style. * Hotel Relax Inn Toyama([[http://www.relax-inn.co.jp/|Japanese]]). * Hotel alpha one (Toyama station branch)([[http://www.alpha1toyama.jp/|Japanese]]). ==== If you would like to be sure that staffs can speak English ... ==== * ANA Crowne Plaza Toyama ([[http://www.anacrowneplaza-toyama.jp/index.html|Japanese]],[[http://www.anacrowneplaza-toyama.jp/lang/english/index.html|English]]). It is slightly far from Toyama station (15 minutes on foot). If you arrive from Toyama airport by bus, the nearest bus stop is "Sogawa". The bus to the airport stops in front of this hotel. When you go to University of Toyama, the nearest Tram station is "Marunouchi". You take tram (2line) for "Daigakumae (In front of University of Toyama)" and get off at "Daigakumae". Tram departs every about 10 minute. The map which shows the bus stops and tram stations around this hotel is here ([[http://www.anacrowneplaza-toyama.jp/access/index.html|Japanese]],[[http://www.anacrowneplaza-toyama.jp/lang/english/access.html|English]]).