Conference Venue
The 11th International IUPAC Conference of High Temperature Materials Chemistry will be held in Sanjo Conference Hall of the University of Tokyo. It will start on Sunday, 18 May, with a Get-Together Party and end on Friday, 23 May 2003.

From its establishment in 1603 to 1868, the city of Tokyo prospered as a castle town named Edo. By the 18th century it was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million, exceeding even London's. Now, Tokyo is one of the exciting metropolises in the world. At the core is the business center; to the east is the center of the former Edo-town people's culture, “shitamachi”, and to the west is the skyscraper city of Shinjuku, where the Tokyo government now resides. Meanwhile, around the major stations are mega department stores, shopping centers, restaurants companies and the playgrounds of the nights. What may also be surprising about Tokyo is that it is by no means all-concrete: there are parks and gardens everywhere, and within an hour of the city center there are beaches and a green hinterland.
You can also enjoy Yokohama (the second largest city and the first harbor opened to the world after international isolation), Kamakura (the seat of the first shogunate from 1192 to 1333) and Hakone (a popular mountain hot-spring resort).

How to Reach Tokyo
By air
Tokyo can be reached from the Narita (Tokyo) International Airport, located about 50 km east of Tokyo, by train leaving every 30 minutes or bus within two hours.

You can see the access to the University of Tokyo and the location of Sanjo Conference Hall on WWW site:
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/campus/map/index.html

You can also receive the information on the City of Tokyo by Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau WWW site:
http://www.tcvb.or.jp/en/index_en.htm