Fukuoka International Congress Center is a modern five-story building, opened in March 2003, and the main venue of the 25th ITTC is the 5th floor of this building. The 1st floor (which might be called the ground floor in Europe) is just the spacious entrance hall (and a restaurant, administration office, and so on). Once you enter from the front door, on the left-hand side of the entrance hall you will see an electronic display board, elevators (located behind the display board) and an escalator which will take you to the 5th floor, the main venue of the 25th ITTC.

Throughout the week starting from 14 September 2008, the 25th ITTC will occupy the whole of the 5th floor (5F), on which the registration and information desk will be set in the lobby from the first day. All the technical sessions will be held in International Conference Room (501, see Floor Layout) and group discussions will be in medium-sized meeting rooms (502 and 503). Room 506 will be used as an internet room, where several numbers of LAN (Local Area Network) connectors are available free of charge for participants wishing to use the internet. (The wireless netwroking may not be available unfortunately.) If you are going to use the internet on the 5th floor, you are advised to bring a LAN cable with you. Coffee and tea will be served in the lobby of the 5th floor during the coffee break throughout the period of the 25th ITTC Conference.

Welcome Reception on Sunday (September 14) will be held in Palace Room on the 2nd floor of Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel, which is the next-door building and can be reached conveniently from the 2nd floor of Fukuoka International Congress Center with an elevated connecting corridor (see Floor Layout of the 2nd floor). Lunches will be served every day during the Conference also at Palace Room on the 2nd floor of Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel. Please click here to check the layouts on the 2nd floor of both International Congress Center and Fukuoka Sunpalace Hotel.

For those who wish to know much more details, a compressed file (CrossStageFukuoka.zip, 503MB) is available here, which provides almost all information, including virtual tour, video introduction, floor guide, access, and introduction of other related facilities, in both English and Japanese. Please download and then extract the files in a directory in your computer. Double-click on the execution file of FCC. exe, and enjoy exploring the facilities of Fukuoka Convention Center with virtual tour. In order to see the video and movies, you will need QuickTime Player. If this software does not exist in your computer, you can install it with an installer program which is also contained in a compressed file (503MB).

If you could download and extract successfully a compressed file for the virtual tour of Fukuoka Convention Center, probably there is no need to see the link below. But for your convenience, a file for explaining the access from Fukuoka Airport or Hakata and Tenjin subway stations is prepared. Please click here or icon Alternatively the home page of Fukuoka International Congress Center provides also the information on the access.

PDF file of a detailed map near the venue PDF file showing Fukuoka City, subway lines and the location of venue