Transportation
The conference JCCA 2014 is held at Tsukuba Center for Institutes of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan).
( from Tsukuba Center for Institutes home page)
This place is about 20 minutes walk from Tsukuba Station of TX railway or Tsukuba Center Bus Terminal. There is a pedestrian deck from the bus terminal to Tsukuba Center for Institutes.Tsukuba city is located at about 40 km north west from Narita Airport and about 50 km north east from Tokyo. There is a train line from a Tokyo down town (Akihabara) to the center of Tsukuba city. It takes about 45 minutes. There are three airports around Tsukuba city. We recommend direct bus services to arrive Tsukuba city from the airports.
Bus services from airports to Tsukuba Center Bus Terminal
- From Narita Airport
The bus services ( AIRPORT LINER NAT'S)
to Tsukuba Center are start from Terminal 2 at 7:40, 9:05,
10:35, 12:50, 14:30, 16:15, 17:20, 18:45, 20:10 and stop at
Terminal 1 five minutes after. It takes about 1 hour and 40
minutes to Tsukuba Center. The ticket costs 2,540 JPY. You
can buy the ticket in the bus or a ticket counter in the arrival
lobby.
- From Haneda Airport
There are direct bus services from
Haneda Airport to Tsukuba Center . The buses start International
Terminal at 9:15, 11:15, 14:45, 16:05, 17:45, 19:20, 20:45,
22:05. It takes about 2 hours to Tsukuba Center. The ticket is
1,850 JPY. You can buy the ticket at the ticket counter or in the bus.
- From Ibaraki Airport
Ibaraki airport is a small local
airport. But there is a only one international air line service, from
Shanhai to Ibaraki ( Spring air line). They have one flight a
day, it leaves at 8:40 from Shanhai and arrives Ibaraki airport at
12:20. There is bus service to Tsuskuba Center , but it is very
inconvenient. We recommend the share-ride taxi. it costs 2,000
JPY per person to Tsukuba city. But you need to reserve by
phone. If you want to use the service, mail to
jcca-office@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp , Chinese language is acceptable.
Other transportation from airports
If you do not mind to switch trains a couple of times to Tsukuba Station, there are many railroad services from airports to Tsukuba station. You can see the information below:
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/access/tsukuba_access.html