We have the following social events during the workshop. You have to register in advance to join any events. The detail can be found by clicking on event names below.

Meeting the Lyman Alpha Colleagues at the Old Town in Tokyo

We start welcoming you at Sakura Cafe located in the Sendagi-Nippori area where old houses and streets remain in Tokyo. You can enjoy various drinks and finger foods, chatting with the Sakura CLAW participants. If you arrive at Sakura Cafe early, you can enjoy walking around the neighbor, Yanaka Ginza (link), a nostalgic shopping street such found in Japan a century ago.

• Date : Monday, March 26th, 2018
• Time : 18:00 - 21:00
• Price : Free
• Place : Sakura Cafe (3-43-15 Sendagi, Bunkyo 113-0022, Tokyo)
• Nearest station : Sendagi or Nippori

Enjoying the night life in the center of Tokyo, Shibuya

The banquet is held in Shibuya, an urban city of Tokyo. You can enjoy fusion cuisines with free-flowing drinks in a dining & bar restaurant with relaxing music. Sushi will be served from the central counter by Sushi expert cooks.

• Date : Thursday, March 29th, 2018
• Time : evening (around 19:00-)
• Price : 8500 JPY
• Place : dining & bar KITSUNE (MAP)
• Nearest station : Shibuya or Ebisu

Enjoying the Tea Ceremony and the Megalopolis Tokyo

In this excursion, you will experience both Japanese traditions and pop cultures by two sets of the activities, the tea ceremony and the city orienteering.
For participants in this excursion, please refer to this web page for the details and schedule.

1) Tea Ceremony
The tea ceremony is a Japanese traditional culture with 800 years of history. In this excursion, you will enjoy a hearty cup of green tea from tea masters and try to make tea by yourself in a traditional manner. We hold the tea ceremony in a Japanese-style guest house, "Kaitoku-kan", which was established about 110 years ago for a visit of the Emperor Meiji and his family. You may feel Japanese spirits of "omotenashi" (hospitality in Japanese) and the beauty through the experience of the tea ceremony.
(You will receive your own tea cup for the tea ceremony that is covered by the excursion fee.)

2) City Orienteering
There are a lot of tourist attractions in the megalopolis Tokyo–traditional cultures, pop cultures, beautiful views, punctual (with a ~30 sec accuracy) subway/metro systems, and so on. You will enjoy the orienteering, traveling around Tokyo urban areas in a group with ~5-6 members. Don't worry. You don't need to compete with the other groups to reach the check points as many/early as possible. Just relax. Instead, your group has a mission of taking group photos in every famous hot spot. The best fun photos will be prized during the banquet.
(You can visit, for examples: Asakusa, Akihabara, Ueno, Shinjuku, Shibuya etc. We will provide the information, and you and your group members can make a decision where you want to go.)
See more in the 8-minite introduction movie on your right (Japan-guide.com).

• Date&Time : Thursday, March 29th, 2018, 12:15pm-
• Time frame : Approx. 5-6 hours
• Start : The excursion will start right after the morning session on 29th. Please stay in the conference room (Koshiba hall).
• Price : 5,000 JPY (per person including taxes), including a tea lecture fee as well as costs of equipments, tea, Japanese sweets, a tea cup and so on.
• Maximum participants : Approx. 96 participants
• Note : We have a banquet after the excursion. The excursion is organized so that you can arrive a banquet venue in time. Excursion participants will attend both the tea ceremony and the orienteering.

Viewing cherry blossom with boxed lunch

Cherry blossom viewing party, "Hanami", with a boxed lunch is a Japanese traditional custom in spring. People enjoy the transient beauty of blossoms under cherry trees, "Sakura". In this party, we will enjoy cherry blossoms at a popular Hanami place in the campus with a Japanese boxed lunch, "bento". The Japanese boxed lunches are served by the famous Sukiyaki restaurant, "Imahan". They include several traditional Japanese foods and rice. You can choose one from five kinds of boxed lunches, or can bring a lunch by yourself. You can also enjoy the Japanese sake "Fukuju", which won gold medals in international wine/sake awards and was served at the Nobel Prize banquet dinner several years.

• Date : lunch time on March 28
• Time : after the morning session (1.5 hours)
• Place : open spaces inside the campus (popular places for Hanami)
• Price : 800 - 2,900 JPY (depending on your choice of a boxed lunch)
• Start : Please take a boxed lunch in the conference room (Koshiba Hall) after the morning session and walk to the Hanami place (3 min).
• Note : The date of Hanami will be announced during conference by email. If it rains, we will hold it inside rooms.
• Boxed Lunch : You can select a boxed lunch (bento) below.

Boxed lunch choices

(A) Tempura and grilled fish bento 2900 JPY three tempura (sillaginoid fish, shrimp, Green pepper), grilled fish, sukiyaki-beef sushi wrapped in fried tofu, stewed dishes, cooked white rice, five ingredients rice (chicken), pickled vegetables Major allergic foods: egg, milk product, wheat, shrimp

(B) Tempura and Roast-beef sushi bento 2900 JPY one tempura (shrimp), boiled Japanese mustard spinach, roast-beef sushi, roast-beef sushi wrapped in fried tofu, sukiyaki-beef sushi wrapped in fried tofu, stewed dishes, cooked white rice, pickled vegetables, Kuchitori (sweet snack) Major allergic foods: egg, milk product, wheat, shrimp

(C) Sukiyaki beef, roast beef and grilled fish bento 2900 JPY sukiyaki beef, hot spring egg, roast-beef sushi, grilled fish, shrimp cutlet, stewed dishes, cooked white rice, pickled vegetables, Kuchitori (sweet snack) Major allergic foods: egg, milk product, wheat, shrimp

(D) Hot sukiyaki beef bento 2900 JPY sukiyaki (beef and vegetables), hot spring egg, cooked white rice, pickled vegetables Major allergic foods: egg, milk product, wheat

(E) Vegan bento 1900 JPY vegan meat, soybeans in the pod, marinade of sesame; red cabbage; and agar strip, colorful vegetables, tofu hamburger steak, fried wheat gluten cake, two kinds of cooked rice, several kinds of stewed dishes (vegetables, a kind of seaweed "Hijiki") Major allergic foods: wheat, soybean, sesame

(F) Participation only 800 JPY