Travel

Nara is served by Kansai International Airport and Osaka's Itami Airport (for domestic flights only). The site http://wikitravel.org/en/Nara provides useful information.

Access to Nara

The easiest way to get to the area of the conference site from Kansai International Airport or Osaka (Itami) Airport is to take Airport Limousine to Kintetsu Nara Station. There's one bus in (almost) every hour. An alternative is to take trains, but you have to change trains once or twice.

• Kansai International Airport (KIX)
• Airport Limousine Bus between KIX and Nara
• Osaka Airport Limousine from Osaka (Itami) Airport to Nara
  • Railways around Nara
  • Kintetsu Railway
  • West Japan Railway (JR-WEST)

Sightseeing Tips

• General Information
• http://www.kintetsu.co.jp/foreign/english/spot/nara.html
• Nara Park & Todai-ji (adjacent to conference site)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_Park
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Ddai-ji
• Yakushi-ji (7km from conference site)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakushi-ji
• Trip to Kyoto needs at least one day.
• (Nara <-> Kyoto 40 minutes by Kintetsu Limited Express.
• http://www.kintetsu.co.jp/foreign/english/useful/limited_express/3-3.html