Tour Information & Registration

Tour Fee

Type	Included lunch/foods	Excluded lunch/foods
Cultural Excursion (16th of October)	--	Free
Technical Excursion A (19th of October)	30 USD	10 USD
Technical Excursion B (19th of October)	60 USD	--

Registration Deadline

• Cultural Excursion (16^th of October): No need to do your registration
• Technical Excursion A (19^th of October): 17^th of October, 2023 (JST)
• Technical Excursion B (19^th of October): 17^th of October, 2023 (JST)

Notes

• The registration fee is non-refundable.
• The tour registration will be valid if your payment has completed by the due date.
• The link to do your tour registration is the bottom of this page.

Cultural Excursion (16^th of October)

Welcome event: Strolling around the Japanese heritage ‘Korakuen’ park and shopping zone

Notes

• Registration is not necessary
• Accompany persons can join this tour
• Prepare 1,000 yen bill for a person.
• You can do your registration at the lower of this page.

Detail

As a welcome event before the conference day, we would provide a casual tour of visiting Okayama Korakuen Park, which is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan. On the way to the park, we will ride on a small train (LRT), if you are a lucky guy, you can meet a Chuggington car. October, the beginning of autumn, is the best season for watching at and taking photos of Japanese garden. If you like, you can walk in Okayama castle standing on a small hill beside the garden. (The technical excursion tour 2-A includes visiting to Okayama castle) On the way back after visiting the park, we enjoy strolling the old shopping mall in Okayama down town freely and walking along riverside and sightseeing streets toward a big shopping center IEON mall. It is up to your preference to visit lovey shops along the street. You might look at attractive ceramic items with a name ‘Bizen-yaki’, which is the traditional ceramic wares.

You don’t have to do the registration of this tour in advance. A guide takes you to this tour, but you can do this tour freely. For instance, you can go to Okayama Castle if you like, or you can stay longer at your favorite shops and restaurants. First, we will give you a map showing the tour itinerary and how to get back to Okayama Station.

Please pay the ride ticket of LRT(one way 120 yen) and the entrance fee to the garden (410 yen) by yourself. A combination ticket of entering both the garden and the castle is 640 yen. You can pay the entrance ticket by card, but LRT ticket is cash only. Recommend you to have a Japanese 1,000 yen bill for a person. (about 7.2 USD)

Time table of this tour (on 16^th of October)

Time / Time period	Event	Venue of field trip / place	Facility / Remarks
14:30	Departure	At the registration desk of ICLCA conference	Okayama convention center
10min	Moving	Walking to LRT station	All tour member
20min	Go by LRT	Riding on RT (Light Rail Transit)	All tour member
15:00--16:00	Visit 1	Visisting Okayama Korakuen Garden (One of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan)	All tour member
30min	Visit 2	Window shopping along Omotecho-shopping street	Walk freely
30min	Visit 3	Strolling along the Nishigawara riverside walk
30min	Visit 4	Shopping in the ION mall (Shopping center)
17:30	Arrival	Okavama station	Okavama station
# Registration is not necessary. Prepare a 1,000 yen bill for one person (actuall 120yen/LRT ride ticket and 410yen/garden entrance ticket)

Technical Excursion A (19^th of October)

Detail

This technical excursion visits two facilities: one is a gasification and reforming facility aiming for complete waste recycling, which is located in Kurashiki city, and the other is a facility to produce bio-diesel from waste cooking oil, which is located in Okayama city. The gasification and reforming process in Kurashiki city is an advanced waste treatment and recycling plant based on Thermo-select technique by JFE. The waste is converted to flammable gas, granulated slag, metal hydroxide, sulfur, and mixed salt, as a result, no waste remains in the theory. We also visit Kurashiki old townscape to enjoy the emotion of Japanese old-fashioned town. After lunch time, we move to Okayama city to visit a new methane fermentation plant that produces methane gas from food waste. The food waste is collected from restaurants and food industries. Finally, we visit Okayama Castle, the symbol of Okayama City. Recently, Okayama Castle has been renewed for not only the exterior but also the exhibits inside the castle. I hope you will enjoy it.

There are two options in this excursion. One option includes Japanese ‘Sushi’ lunch at a restaurant in Kurashiki International Hotel (Tour fee: 30 USD, well recommended). The other does not include the lunch, but it is possible to buy light foods in shops or eat in restaurants in the town.(Tour fee: 10 USD) Hope to enjoy visit and eating the lunch!

Note: the maximum number of participants are 40. Sorry, registration is terminated if the number is over. Caution, your registration cannot be canceled.

Time table of this tour (on 19^th of October)

Time / Time period	Event	Venue of field trip / place	Facility / Remarks
8:15	Departure	The bus center at the west gate of Okayama station	Okayama bus center (west square)
8:30-10:00	Moving	by bus
10:00- 11:30	Visit_1	Gasification reforming incineratior	Mizushima Eco Works, Co. Ltd.
11:30- 12:00	Moving	by bus
12:00-13:30	Lunch	Lunch time (Japanese tradional 'Sushi' menu)	Kurashiki International Hotel
13:30-14:30	Moving	by bus
14:30-15:30	Visit_2	Biogasification plant (generation from food waste)	Bio-Diesel Okayama, Co. Ltd.
15:30-16:00	Moving	by bus
16:00~17.30	Visit_3	Okayama Castle	Okayama Castle
17:30~17:45	Moving	by bus
17:45	Arrival	The bus center at the west gate of Okayama station	Okayama bus center (west square)
# Registration is mandatory.		Tour price (with lunch) :30 USD Tour price (without lunch): 10 USD

Technical Excursion B (19^th of October)

Detail

Maniwa City's Biomass Eco-Town is an advanced eco-town that everyone wants to visit at least once.　 In every years, many visitors from municipalities, private companies, schools, and research institutes come to learn Maniwa’s well-planned activities in multiple biomass utilization for energy saving, decarbonization, and rehabilitation of de-populated mountainous town.　Due to the large number of visitors, the Maniwa City Tourism Association has created excursion packages so that one day can be a meaningful visit. So this tour participates in this package tour.

class="text-justify" The tour consisting of technological, consumption and educational aspects will provide you precious opportunities to focus on these issues facing modern society today. You will become increasingly aware of environmental issues and various ways to consume energy in every single aspect of modern everyday life.

• http://biomass-tour-maniwa.jp/english/
• http://biomass-tour-maniwa.jp/cms/wp-content/themes/biomss/common/file/biomasstour_flyer.pdf

On the way back after visiting Maniwa city, we drop off at a foot bath spot to relax. Tour fee is 60 USD, which includes a lunch at Katsuyama area.

Note: the maximum number of participants are 40. Sorry, registration is terminated if the number is over. Caution, your registration cannot be canceled.

Time table of this tour (on 19^th of October)

Time / Time period	Event	Venue of field trip / place	Facility / Remarks
9:00	Departure	The bus center at the west date of Okayama station	Okavama bus center (west square)
9:00-10:10	Moving	on the highway
10:30-16:30	Visit 1	Biomass tour in Maniwa City Biomass power plant and CLT factory Lunch at Japanese old fashioned Biomass recycling facilities on the highway	Mania city
16.45~17:15	Moving	on the highway
17:15-17:45	Visit 2	Foot bath square "Yubara Yuttari Hiroba	Yubara hot spring village
17:45~19-15	Moving	on the highway
19-15	Arrival	The bus center at the west gate of Okayama station	Okavama bus center (west square)
#Registration is mandatory.		Tour price (including lunch): 60 USD

How to do your registration

1. Create your Web ID

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