Final Announcement and Last-minute information for participants ofSNP School 2016, NSMAT2016 and ANPhA2016
This contains important information for SNP School, NSMAT and ANPhA 2016 participants.
Please read through carefully.
If you have your hotel in Sendai arranged by the organizers, please check your reservation of the hotel
rooms and the Sakunami session from the following links. All of you should pay the hotel fee by yourself
at checking-in of the hotel in Sendai, even if you have financial support from us. On the other hand, theSakumai session fee used for lodging at the Sakunami hotel should be paid to the organizers. For theSakunami session as well as for the hotels in Sendai, cancellation fee will be charged for short notice ofcancellation. Should you need to cancel the hotels in Sendai or the Sakunami session, please contact toorganizer as soon as possible.
Accommodation in Sendai city: http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2016/hotel/
Sakunami session: http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2016/hotel/sakunami-list.htm
You can see the hotel location and direction to a subway station from:http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2016/hotel/Hotel_location.htm(password guarded ID: tohoku, PW: sendai)

You can find detailed information about Sendai subway at:https://www.kotsu.city.sendai.jp/english/index.html
Sendai has two subway lines (Tozai-line and Nanboku-line), and they are connected at Sendai St. To accessthe conference venue by the subway, go to Aobayama Station (T02) by Tozai-line. From the exit North-1(Kita-1), go to Science Complex C building (H04) at Aobayama-Campus, Tohoku Univ. You will see a
convenience store (Seven Eleven) at the first floor of the H04 building. The conference venue (Aoba ScienceHall) is just next to the Seven Eleven.

Conference Venue, Science Complex C
Aobayama-Campus, Tohoku Univ.

Aobayama-station (T02)
North-1 exit

Aoba Science Hall is inside.
You can enter from this door or through the 7-11 store.

H04 Building (Science Complex C). You can see a Seven Eleven store and the conference venue(Aoba Science Hall) is just next to the store.
SNP School 2016 will start at 8:50 on 18th November, 2016.
Young researchers’ session is organized in the morning and afternoon on the19th .
Schedule was changed from the second announcement. Please check the latest schedule on theweb.
On the 20th, the last lecture by Prof. Suda, an ELPH accelerator tour and the closing session
will be held at the research center for ELectron PHoton Science (ELPH), Tohoku University. In
the closing session, the best oral and poster presenters will be awarded the Hashimoto prize,
and all the presenters at the young researchers’ session will receive certificate of the SNPschool.
We will move to ELPH by subway and bus after lunch of the 20th. The organizers will escort
you to ELPH. Detailed information will be announced during the school.
Please note that some of the participants need to change hotels (from Pearl City Hotel to ArkHotel) in the morning of 20th (Sun). Please check-out (and pay for) Pearl City Hotel on 20th andbring all your belongings to Ark Hotel (7 minutes walk).
Registration desk of NSMAT2016 will open at 8:30 on the 21st November, 2016.
Registration fee (7000 JPY) should be paid in cash (credit card is NOT accepted). In addition,
those who signed up for the Sakunami session need to pay 16,000 JPY (cash only) for allinclusive stay at a Japanese style hot spring spa.
The registration fee includes the reception, wine and snack in the poster session, and coffee inthe coffee break, but not lunches. Please take (or buy) your lunch at the university cafeteria
and restaurant (or at the stores in the campus). In the evening of the 21st, NSMAT2016
participants and accompanied persons are cordially invited to a reception at the conference
venue.
The scientific program has been updated. In particular, the plenary session and the parallelsessions in the afternoon on the 21st are swapped. Please check the latest version on the web

On the 23rd , after the last talk at Aoba Science Hall, participants for the Sakunami session
will move to Sakunami by a coach arranged by the organizer. The departure time (around16:00) and the bus pick-up point will be announced at the conference. Sakunami session
participants who asked for hotel arrangement to the organizer need to check out and pay thehotel bill in the morning of the 23rd and to check in again on the 24th after the first day ofANPhA 2016.
Details of the Sakunami discussion session will be announced in the bus.
ANPhA2016 participants who also join the Sakunami session can take the bus to Sakunami ifthey come to Aoba Science Hall (conference venue) before 15:40 on Nov. 23rd.
At Sakunami, we will stay at Hotel Ichinobo.
http://www.ichinobo.com/sakunami/
Those who plan to go to Sakunami directly by a JR train should take JR Senzansen line fromSendai station to Sakunami station (about a 40-min ride. Nov. 23rd is a national holiday inJapan. Trains operate under holiday schedule. Please check a holiday time table carefully. ).
Hotel’s courtesy bus is available at the Sakunami station. The bus is waiting at Sakunami
station when every JR-train arrives before 17:00. If you arrive at the Sakunami station after
17:00 or miss the bus, use a taxi or phone 022-395-2131 (Sakunami Onsen Ichinobo 「作並温泉 一の坊」) for a pick up service.
All inclusive charge for the Sakunami session (16,000 JPY per person) should be paid to theorganizers but not to the hotel if you have not paid it at the NSMAT registration desk.
Those who join the Sakunami session need to leave the hotel after breakfast and come back toSendai station and then to the symposium venue via JR Senzansen-line train and Tozaisenline subway. The organizer will escort participants. Detailed information will be given at theSakunami session.
ANPhA2016 will start from 13:00 on Nov. 24th and finish around noon on the 25th.
Please check the scientific program on the web.
Average temperature in Sendai in November is 9 degrees C (48F), daily minimum/maximum
temperatures are 5/14 degrees C. You are advised to prepare clothes for chilly weather andrain (even for occasional snowfall). Further information on the city can be found in thefollowing WEB page:
http://sendai-travel.jp/
http://www.spending-time-sendai.jp/?lang=en

We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Sendai, Tohoku University.