Technical Visits & Pre/Post-Conference Tours
Tour Deadline
Technical Visits & Pre/Post-Conference Tours are now closed.
Participants wishing to register for technical visits and/or Pre/Post Conference Tours should apply online no later than 17:00 (Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)), November 9 (Monday), 2015.
Course Details
PT1: Pre-Conference Tour
- Date:
- 09:00-16:30, November 27 (Fri.), 2015
- Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - Textile Museum (KAWASHIMA SELKON TEXTILES CO, LTD.) - Lunch - Kiyomizuyaki Pottery Complex - Kyoto International Conference Center
- Price:
- JPY 10,000 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- Minimum
participants
required: - 10 persons
- Maximum
participants: - 40 persons
- Lunch:
- Japanese-lunch box
KAWASHIMA SELKON TEXTILES CO, LTD.
Kawashima Selkon Textiles Co., Ltd. has two lines of business, "Traditional and Artistic Textiles" such as 'Kawashima's obis (kimono sashes)' that kimono lovers long for wearing, stage curtains and festival float curtains and "Interior Decoration/Fabrics Business" which has led the Japanese interior decoration market with curtain, carpet, wall-covering and interior accessories since it started to produce interior decoration for the Meiji Imperial Palace.
Kiyomizuyaki Pottery Complex
This is a pottery town where pottery and porcelain-related industries, including potteries, wholesalers, potters, and clay manufacturers, have gathered since 1962. About 70 shops and companies getting involved in traditional crafts in this area, including Kiyomizuyaki pottery (Kiyomizuyaki: potteries in Kyoto; characterized by exclusive fragile beauty which was produced based on Chinese gorgeous patterns and unique crafting techniques of master craftsmen), concentrate in the town with a total area of 8.25 ha. People can have various experiences, including shopping, visit to scenes of creation, and painting of potteries, while strolling in the complex. Be satisfied with the sophisticated skills of precious craftsmen, including artists establishing international career, well-established factories founded over 100 years ago, and potters who have won the Order of Culture.
PT2: Ise Tour
- Date:
- 08:00-18:00, November 27 (Fri.), 2015
08:00-18:00, December 3 (Thu.), 2015 - Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - Ise Shrine - Lunch - MIKIMOTO PEARL ISLAND - Kyoto International Conference Center
- Price:
- JPY 11,600 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- Minimum participants required:
- 30 persons
- Maximum participants:
- 80 persons
- Lunch:
- Udon-noodles (made of wheat flour)
Ise Shrine (Ise Jingu)
Ise-Jingu Shrine is at the core of sightseeing in Ise, Mie Prefecture. It is simply referred to as Jingu (the Shrine) as an official name, and the Sun Goddess Amaterasu O-mikami is enshrined there. Over seven million worshippers visit the shrine every year. The Ise Jingu consists of two shrines: the Outer Shrine (Geku), which is dedicated to Toyouke, the Shinto deity of clothing, food and housing, and the Inner Shrine (Naiku), which enshrines the most venerated deity Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. They are Shinto's most sacred shrines. Naiku, officially known as Kotaijingu, was founded about 2,000 years ago. The supreme deity Amaterasu Omikami is enshrined here and worshipped as the predecessor of the Imperial Household and the guardian deity of the Japanese people.
MIKIMOTO PEARL ISLAND
The Mikimoto Pearl Island is an excellent museum about pearls, pearl cultivation and Mikimoto Kokichi, the first person who succeeded in cultivating pearls. The island is located in the Bay of Toba, accessible via a bridge.Mikimoto Kokichi was born in Toba in 1858 and became the first person to successfully cultivate pearls in the year 1893. He opened the first Mikimoto Pearl Store in 1899. The Mikimoto Kokichi Memorial Hall introduces his life story. Also located on the island, the Pearl Museum provides detailed explanations about pearls and the cultivation of pearls in Japanese and English. In the adjacent Pearl Plaza you can view and purchase a wide variety of pearl jewelry.
TV1: Technical Visit Course A - Machinery and Electric
- Date:
- 09:00-16:00, December 3 (Thu.), 2015
- Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - KYOCERA Corporation - Lunch - SHIMADZU CORPORATION - Kyoto International Conference Center
- Price:
- JPY 10,000 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- Minimum participants required:
- 10 persons
- Maximum participants:
- 40 persons
- Lunch:
- Yudofu-Meal
The Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics, The Kyocera Museum of Art, Showroom
As part of Kyocera's continuing cultural contribution activities, we have established The Kyocera Museum of Art and The Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics on the first and second floors of Kyocera's headquarters in Kyoto, Japan.
A beacon of environmentally-friendly design, Kyocera's headquarters has one of the world's largest solar generation and natural gas co-generation systems. An explanation of these systems can be found in the environmental corner on the second floor. For a closer look, please feel free to visit the building.
SHIMADZU CORPORATION
Located at the northern end of the Takase River, the Kiyamachi-Nijo district is not only the birthplace of Shimadzu Corporation, but was also the cradle of modern Japanese science. Here, at the beginning of the Meiji period, Kyoto Prefecture established a number of laboratories, factories, and other industrial facilities using the latest technologies from Europe and the United States. Today, the district is a quiet place that epitomizes the historical atmosphere of Kyoto. The two-storey wooden buildings are a reminder of the days when Genzo Shimadzu Senior and Junior lived here and used such buildings as their storefront.
TV2: Technical Visit Course B - Waterworks and the Technical Heritage
- Date:
- 09:00-17:00, December 3 (Thu.), 2015
- Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - Lake Biwa Canal Museum - Keage Power Station - Lunch - Keage Purification Plant - NANZENJI WATER LINE BRIDGE - Kyoto International Conference Center
- Price:
- JPY 10,000 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- Minimum participants required:
- 10 persons
- Maximum participants:
- 40 persons
- Lunch:
- Yudofu-Meal
Lake Biwa Canal Museum
Many visitors to Kyoto have walked the Philosophers Way, a path along the bank of a canal lined with cherry trees. Not so many realize that this canal saved the life of the dying city. No far away, at the point where the water joins the Kamo River, you will find the Lake Biwa Canal Museum of Kyoto, which tells the story.
Kyoto was capital of Japan, and home to the emperor, for centuries. The finest things were brought there. Little was produced, and little taken away.
Keage Power Station
In 1891, Keage Power Station was completed and started to transmit electricity. This was the first hydroelectric power generation project in Japan. Lake Biwa Canal Project which was unprecedented in scale and facilitated the modernization of Kyoto was to build a new canal connecting Kyoto with Lake Biwa. At first, in view of the then technological level of Japan, many people considered it an ill-advised plan. The Project was designed and supervised by Sakuro Tanabe, young engineer who had just graduated from Kobu Daigakko or University of Engineering.
Keage Purification Plant
Keage Purification Plant, the oldest one in the city, was established in 1912 and began supplying water in April of the following year, as the first plant using the rapid sand filtration method in Japan. This plant is open to the public every spring. Please come and see our beautiful flower “Azalea”.
NANZENJI WATER LINE BRIDGE
Walking along the canal branch from Keage Boat Dock, eventually you come out on top of Suirokaku Aqueduct in the precincts of Nanzen-ji temple. Although this brick structure is said to have been built so as not to destroy the historic scenery of Nanzen-ji, it is a completely foreign style of architecture, so one can imagine how amazed people must have been looking up at it in the early days. Having said that, though, today, partly covered by moss, it cuts a very dignified figure and is always crowded with people drawing sketches or taking photos.
TV3: Technical Visit Course C - Building and Civil Engineering
- Date:
- 08:00-18:00, December 3 (Thu.), 2015
- Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - K computer - Kobe Port (taking a boat) - Lunch - Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited (HSBE) - Kyoto International Conference Center
- Price:
- JPY 10,000 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- minimum participants required:
- 10 persons
- Maximum participants:
- 40 persons
- Lunch:
- Chinese Buffet
K Computer
The K computer named for the Japanese word "kei" (京), meaning 10 quadrillion is a Supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, currently installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan. RIKEN’s K computer belongs to the highest caliber of supercomputers in the world. While maintaining a high status for its speed, the K computer was designed with a high priority given to ease of use.
Kobe Port
Observe Kobe Port and Akashi Kaikyo Bridge by a boat of the possession of Kobe-shi.
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited (HSBE)
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited (HSBE) is operating and maintaining three expressways between Honshu and Shikoku, which are fully-access-controlled highway, as main businesses. In addition, HSBE is now operating rest facilities such as service areas (SA) and parking areas (PA), and conducting committed businesses for research and development regarding long-span bridges entrusted by the national or local governments as related businesses.
TV4: Technical Visit Course D - Japanese Tradition and Modern Apparel Maker
- Date:
- 09:45-17:00, December 3 (Thu.), 2015
- Course:
- Kyoto International Conference Center - Nishijin Textile Center - Lunch -
Wacoal Museum of Beauty - Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum - Kyoto International Conference Center - Price:
- JPY 10,000 per person (transportation fee, lunch and entrance fee inclusive)
- Tour conductor:
- English-speaking tour conductor
- Minimum participants required:
- 10 persons
- Maximum participants:
- 20 persons
- Lunch:
- Yudofu-Meal
Nishijin Textile Center
The Nishijin Textile Center, located in Imadegawa, is a modern-style building where demonstrations and exhibits are held on the theme of the traditional Nishijin textile industry. In addition to a kimono show (6 times a day) are hand-weaving demonstrations and a display of historical materials. It is the perfect place to take in the beauty of gorgeous Nishijin textiles. Here you can also dress up as a maiko, geiko in a junihitoe (12-layer kimono).
Wacoal Museum of Beauty
Wacoal is a major Japanese women's underwear maker. The museum displays the history of undergarment development that freed women from restrictive corsets, and accentuates beauty of women.
Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum
The Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum introduces you to the facinating history of sake brewing with its nostalgic buildings, tasting experience, and valuable collection of traditional brewing tools. From among the 6,120 brewing tools designated by Kyoto City as folk craft cultural assets, some of the most representative items used in the various stages of the brewing process are on display here. While enjoying the exhibits, you can hear recordings of traditional sake brewing songs sung by brewers of bygone days. Here is faithfully reproduced the atmosphere of an old sake brewery.
Tour Payment
After you complete your registration, please click the "Go to Payment Page" button. Payments by credit card will be accepted. All payment must be in Japanese yen.
The due date for the payment is November 9 (Monday), 2015. Please note that payments will not be accepted after this date. In order to make a tour registration, a full deposit is required.
The credit cards listed below can be used to make payments:
Visa, MasterCard®, JCB, AMEX, Diners Club
Tour Confirmation
Your registration will be completed upon receipt of your on-line tour information and verifying the payment of the deposit.
Once you have completed the above steps, click on the Confirm/Purchase/Edit/Cancel/Additional application button on My Page, then click on the Display Confirmation Sheet button and print out the Confirmation Sheet.
Please print out your confirmation slip by clicking the "Confirmation sheet" button and bring it with you on the day of the excursion.
Tour Cancellation & Revision
In case of cancellation, your deposit will be refunded after deducting the cancellation fees as shown below. JTB shall make the corresponding refund within the 7th day from the next day of cancellation, when effecting refund before tour departure.
Please revise and/or cancel your registration by logging-in to your "My Page".
If it does not reach to minimum number of participants required for each tour 1 month before the departure, these tours will be canceled. It will be announced by E-mail applied. In such cases, there will be no cancellation charges.
Cancellation fee when notice is given:
| 8 or more days prior to the starting date of the tour | No charge |
|---|---|
| 7 days prior to the starting date of the tour | 30% of tour fee |
| 1 day prior to the starting date of the tour | 40% of tour fee |
| On the day of departure | 50% of tour fee |
| After the day of departure, or in case of failure to show without notice | 100% of the tour fee |
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If you have already made hotel reservation, please login to your “My Page” and proceed with your tour registration.
Inquiries regarding Technical Visits
WECC2015 Desk
E-mail: wecc2015@west.jtb.jp
Tel: +81-6-6260-4360 Fax: +81-6-6260-4359
Office Hours: 9:30-17:30 (weekdays only)