JWLLP-32 (2022/12): Recommended Hotels, Touristic Tips and Logistic Information for International Visitors
Recommended Hotels and Logistic Information for International Visitors
- Important Note: This page was originally prepared in 2017 for JWLLP-23 and most pieces of the information are vastly outdated and out of place. I will revise those pieces in due time.
- Monetary Transactions:
- Banks and ATM Machines:
- Currency Exchange:
- Recommended Hotels
- Prospective participants who need accommodation are advised to make necessary arrangements and reservations early on, either directly with the hotels or through hotel and/or travel reservation sites of their choices.
- Downtown Kobe is not around Kobe Station. When local people refer to downtown Kobe, they mean areas around San-no-miya Station, which may be spelled conventionally as Sannomiya Station. Even in Japanese, we have fluctuating expressions of 三ノ宮 and 三宮.
- Hotel rates in Japan are usually but not necessarily always quoted as per person per night and not as per room per night.
- Do not forget to specify "non-smoking" if that is your preference.
- The following hotels are relatively conveniently located, from/to the airports and/or from/to the university. Rates may change dramatically between now and when international tourism resumes.
- Logistic Information for International Visitors
- weather in Kobe: https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/forecast/#area_type=class20s&area_code=2810000&lang=en
- JR West
- brief and unofficial logistic instructions
- Fly in to Kansai International Airport and take a shuttle bus to San-no-miya.
- You can also consider flying into Haneda and/or Fukuoka International Airports.
- Your airline may offer connecting flights to Itami (Osaka) or to Kobe (Osaka) and a shuttle bus service will get you to San-no-miya.
- Otherwise, you can fly domestic to Kobe Airport by Skymark, which is usually cheaper than JAL / ANA and a frequent 20-minute Port-liner ride will get you to San-no-miya Station.
- You can take Shinkansen from Shinagawa (or Tokyo) or from Fukuoka to Shin-Osaka and get to San-no-miya by JR-West. Shin-Kobe is an option I would not recommend for this purpose.
- You can take Shinkansen from Fukuoka to Shin-Kobe and get to San-no-miya Station by city subway.
- Generic Touristic Information: I do not particularly like or endorse and have not checked in detail accuracy of information in any of the following.
- Related Video Clips:
NB. We offer no warranty for the accuracy of the folloing materials.
- Construction of Kansai International Airport:
- things to do and places to visit
- histories of earthquakes and other disasters
- Views inside and outsidde of Hotels: not neccessarily recommended for stay
notices
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- First drafted September 8th, 2015. Last revised December 5th, 2021.
- The touristic information compliled in this web page are subject to change without our knowledge. The organizers should not be held responsible for any purported or actual damages by prospective participants due to those changes.