To better meet your request during the hotel stay and provide you with more accommodation options, from 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Asia remove the housing part from the fixed registration packages and begin to offer the direct booking links for the on-site housing and other hotel recommendations.
You can book the hotel around Awaji Yumebutai Conference Center by yourselves.
Option 1- GRAND NIKKO AWAJI (On site accommodation , Most Recommended ）
Reservation Instructions:
Please book the hotel via below link before Mar. 31, 2025.
https://amarys-jtb.jp/opt-inter/
Option 2 – Seaside Hotel Maiko Villa シーサイドホテル舞⼦ヴィラ
Take an express bus to the Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center
10 min walk to the bus stop; be careful that the bus stop (Kohsoku-Maiko .硉籖.) is on the bridge;
15~20 min over the sea to the international conference center; bus runs every 30 min; 520 Japanese yen
one way (transportation IC card is useful and highly recommended to obtain one)
https://www.japanstation.com/japans-prepaid-transportation-cards-ic-cards/
Option 3 - Hotel Castle Plaza ホテルキャッスルプラザ
Option 4 - Akashi Luminas Hotel 明⽯ルミナスホテル
In addition to the express bus, 10 min ride of Japan Railway (JR) train from Nishi-Akashi to Miako is
necessary. These two hotel are located in front of the Nishi-Akashi ⻄明⽯JR station.
There are shinkansen station and local station. Use local station and take a train toward Kobe/Osaka. Do
NOT use super rapid service, which does not stop at Maiko. Use local or rapid service, which runs every 10 min or less. It takes less than10 min to Maiko JR station (second station); 180 Japanese yen one way). Then take the express bus at Kohsoku-Maiko bus stop on the bridige as above.
General Information
Japanese transportation is quite punctual even for buses.
Transportation IC card is useful and highly recommended to obtain one.
https://www.japanstation.com/japans-prepaid-transportation-cards-ic-cards/
JR train runs till midnight.
Important Note
The last bus from the international conference center is 2236.
Taxi from the International Conference Center to JR Maiko is ~10,000 Japanese yen (~80 US$). If 4
persons ride in a car, ~2,500 Japanese yen per person. This includes expressway charge and depends on the situation that taxis cannot stop at the bus stop on the bridge so that they have to take a much longer way.