Welcome to RIKEN Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory 長瀧天体ビックバン研究室へようこそ

Access

Welcome to Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory. Our laboratory is located in Main Research Building, Wako Campus, RIKEN. For the details of the access to Wako Campus, visit the following link to "Access" page of the official website of RIKEN. Main Research Building is denoted as "C01" in Campus Map in the page.

Access to Wako Campus

How to enter buildings in Wako Campus

To enter most of buildings in Wako Campus except for buildings in which cafeterias are, we need an ID card. For visitors, a temporal entrance card is issued at West Gate Guard Station. Please visit the guard station at "West Gate" first and fill out a form on your visit, e.g., the purpose, destination, host and so on. Once you get a temporal entrance card, you can enter any buildings by holding the card over readers at the front of automatic doors. When you leave the campus, please return the card to the guard station (West Gate).

* There is cafeteria (C61) in Wako Campus, but payments by cash are not accepted at cafeterias. Instead, you can pay by a prepaid IC card for public transport, e.g., Suica, PASMO. You can recharge it at the entrances of cafeterias. In the building C72, there is a small convenience store (you can pay by cash).

Accommodation

We have on-campus housing units (called I-House) for visitors in Wako Campus. If you are interested in staying at I-House, please let us know. For the detailed information, e.g., housing rates, please visit the link below.

On-campus housing

As for hotels around Wako Campus, there are not many options. If you prefer to stay around Wako Campus, please consider the following two hotels nearby Wako-shi Station.

Toyoko-inn Wako-shi Ekimae

Super Hotel Saitama, Wako-shi Ekimae

Wakoshi Tobu Hotel