NCM Excursions
NCM invites you to take advantage of your visit to Kobe by exploring this wonderful and historical city and its surroundings! You can sign up for the below excursions when you register for the meeting or add them on to your existing registration. Please note, minimum numbers are required to run all tours. Should the minimum numbers not be reached, individuals will be contacted.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Magic Sake Experience: Nadagogo Sakedokoro
15:30 – 18:00 (approximately)
Cost: $65 per person USD
Includes transportation, licensed guide, multiple sake tasting and small bites of food
Join us at the Sake Wonderland and enjoy sake pairings with food. Participate in the “Magic Sake” pairing experience where the taste of food changes like magic with the sake tasted.
Multiple food and sake pairings will be provided.
Tatami Mat Workshop
15:30 – 17:30 (approximately)
Cost: $65 per person USD
Includes transportation, guide, and workshop
Tatami mats are used as flooring in traditional Japanese rooms from the grandest castle to an average home. They are covered with woven soft rush (igusa) straw and the core is traditionally made from rice straw.
Participants will listen as a local tatami maker explains the history, culture, and unique characteristics of tatami. You wll learn how tatami were popularised in Japanese homes and will also have the opportunity to make your own mini tatami mat using the traditional techniques.
Fugaku (SuperComputer) Visit
15:15 – 17:00 (approximately)
Cost: $10 per person USD
Includes access to Fugaku/RIKEN and guide. Participants will be required to purchase travel via Portliner rail (two stops from hotel)
Join us for an exclusive tour of Fugaku, the supercomputer, part of RIKEN. Fugaku is a Japanese petascale supercomputer located at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, only a short distance from the conference hotel. Fugaku was officially ranked as the world’s fastest in June 2020.
Participants will travel via Port Liner Metro from the hotel two stops to the RIKEN location where the RIKEN outreach and communication team will provide information about Fugaku, any overlap with NCM activities, and answer questions about the system. Fugaku will be visible through glass.