For information regarding travelling in Japan before or after the conference, please contact the Conference Secretariat. Some interesting tours will be offered by the official agency Nippon Travel Agency for PME 24, for example short tours of Hiroshima and its surrounding areas, as well as day tours to other cities and sites in Japan. They will be described in the Second Announcement and on PME 24 home page. Weather It is the end of rainy season and the beginning of summer in Japan in July. We sometimes have rain.
Evenings are a little cooler.
Conference rooms, hotel rooms, and restaurants are usually air-conditioned. Most public transportation and car services are air-conditioned as well. There are many hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, and shopping malls in Hiroshima City Center. There are also post offices and banks near the conference site. The payment must usually be in Japanese Yen currency.