To get Kaminoyama (Yamagata) Successfully
Outline

Haneda ==[Mono-rail: 30 min.] ==> Hamamatsu-cho station == [Local: 10 min.] ==> Tokyo == [Tsubasa Super Express Train: nearly 2.5 hrs.]==> Kaminoyama Onsen Station.
Detail of traveling
  1. After getting Tokyo (Haneda) Airport, go the mono-rail station terminal.
  2. Then, please buy the ticket to Hamamatsu-cho (the last station) and take a mono-rail train.
  3. When you arrive at the Hamamatsu-cho station, you look for the ticket counter (Midorino Madoguchi). Please buy there the ticket for Kaminoyama Onsen via Tokyo. You take a local train from Hamamatsu-cho to Tokyo. Then, change a train "Tsubasa Supter Express Train" at the Tokyo station.
  4. If you want to go to the conference venue directly and if it is not easy to buy the ticket at the ticket counter in Hamamatsu-cho, please show the staff THIS (download and print out) .

Find this sign. Pictgram of Shinkansen (Super-express train).


  1. Then, go the ground floor with following the Shinkansen sign. You can find this view.
Ground floor of Tokyo Sta. Near the Shinkansen entrance.


  1. After that, find the following Shinkansen Entrance.
Note: Do not follow the blue color sign (You will get different location. )
Entrance of the ShinkansenGreen entrance gate (insert all train tickets).


  1. Find the Shinkansen name "Tsubasa" at the electric sign.


The train you will take, two shinkansens are jointed. Please get on the green simbol train at Tokyo terminal of Tohoku shinkansen. DO NOT get the blue-yellow color train (it will go to the different destination Sendai).
To the Shinkansen terminal No. 20 to 23. "Tsubasa" = Orange sign.


Articulated train. (Left car is "Tsubasa")"Tsubasa" = Green-silver train. (Do not get on the blue and yellow color).


  1. Please Get off at "Kaminoyama Onsen Sta.". (It takes about 3 hours from Tokyo terminal to the Kaminoyama Onsen. )
  2. In front of the Kaminoyama Onsen Sta., you can find the following flag and hotel bus.


Note: You can also get the conference venue easily by walking from the station. Please see the map.

Conference flag. Hotel bus.