All about your stay in Tokyo, where to go: how to get around.
This year our event will be in the conference center of the Yahoo Japan Corporation in the Chiyoda ward.
(Note: The nearby imperial garden, forms a nice circle, used by many for their morning/evening runs.)
Japan has a strong mobile internet network, and for tourist use it is possible to get both tourist SIM cards as well as rent mobile Wifi boxes. You can either pick up at the airport and/or preorder it to be sent to your Hotel.
- List of SIM/Wifi shops at Narita Airport
- eConnect Japan offers SIM & Wifi online ordering.
- There are some offerings on Amazon.jp which works usually smooth in english - if you want to compare prices. They can be sent to your Hotel, delivers usually within two days.
- For tourists
Wifi can be available occassionally for free in Japan.
- For your mobile phone there is the NTT's free wifi service for tourists - Android/iOS only
- Starbucks offers unlimited, login-based Wifi in all their stores.
- Family-mart offers 3 x 20minutes per Day free Wifi
- McDonalds allows Wifi limited to 1h per session. Reconnect required, Reconnect doesn't work immediately.
- Getting around in Tokyo - TL;DR: Use Train & Metro
Stations nearby NodeFest 2018:
In Japan, we use Tabelog and yelp to find places to eat and drink. However, Tabelog is more popular than yelp. You can use Tabelog in English, Chinese and Korean. Additionally, Tabelog provides an awesome list called "The Tabelog Award". It helps you to find some of the best places to eat and drink around the city. The following links are from Tabelog.
- Akasakawaizuseimen (あか坂 わいず製麪)
- Tenkai-ippin - working-class Ramen
- AFURI - Is a bit far but they have a vegan menu. Also in other places in Tokyo.
- Tantan Tiger - Souples Dam Dam Noodles. You can choose the topping. coriander
- Sushi zanmai: http://www.kiyomura.co.jp/
- Shunkashuutou: https://tabelog.com/cn/tokyo/A1303/A130301/13014528/
- Rukumatokyo: https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1303/A130301/13058009/
- Rambo azabu: https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1307/A130702/13127898/
- OSS Cafe: https://osscafe.business.site/
- Nodeschool Tokyo: https://nodeschool.io/tokyo/
- Node.js Japan User Group: https://nodejs.jp/
- japan-guide.com - Everything about modern and traditional Japan.
- Japan National Tourism Organization - The official Japan tourism organization website.
- Open Source Tokyo - A directory of companies, people, and projects that are Open Source and from Tokyo.
The purpose of curating something in Tokyo is to help people find great places to eat and hack because we could not find these things easily when we attended foreign conferences before. We would like to help a lot of people have safe and fun travel throughout the curated list. On the other hand, the list is not enough because we cannot customize it for each conference, but we think you may not want to create the list from scratch, so we prepare following steps to do it. Have a fun!
- Fork the project.
- Change name for your event. E.g.
awesome-nodefest-2017 - Customize forked list ✨ :
- Add venues address
- List hotels near venues
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