debconf in Japan?

I noticed some people are intersting about running debconf in Japan. Well, as same as Uekawa mentioned, cost is biggest blocker. It's wonderful if we have debconf in Japan, but we should collect many money from sponsors. Let's do brain storming with some Japanese DDs...

Place & Access

Even if it spends a lot of money, Tokyo is best place I think. Chiba, Ibaraki (Tsukuba), Osaka is second place.

Most planes arrive to Narita, New Tokyo International Airport. Badly Narita is far from Tokyo and spends at least 1 hours by train or bus.

Another airport is Haneda, Tokyo International Airport. You can reach there via Korea or some countries.

Hotels

All hotels are very very very expensive. Rooms are very narrow. AFAIK there isn't (or only a few) domitory in Japan. although there are some YMCA hotels.

Normal hotel won't welcome geeks who sit and open their laptop anywhere. :)

I dunno University rent a room. Maybe they won't allow to rent at night time.

Who can allow reservation for 1 week?

Network connectivity

In the city, FTTH or ADSL service is spreaded. Some hotel provides this service by free or reasonable cost.

Wireless hot spot service is starting.

Play spot in Tokyo

Akihabara (computer gadget, anime, maid-caffe, ...), Shibuya (young fashion, culture), Asakusa (traditional culture), Roppongi (night life), etc...

Food

There are various food in Japan. Japanese (Tempura, Sushi, Okonomiyaki, Udon, Rahmen, etc..), Chinese, Korean, Italian, Indian, etc. Of course McDonalds is there. :)

Unfortunately only a few can provide for hardcore vegetarian.

Catering service is there, but little expensive.

Season

Highest season: end of March, begining of May, July-August, end of December.

Lowest season: end of May, June, September, February.

Japanese summer is crazy hot, especially in Tokyo.

Average price. (1 yen = $0.0092, 0.0075EURO)

You don't need to pay tip anywhere.

Hotel: 8000-20000 yen per night, per person(!).

Breakfast: 500-800 yen.

Lunch: 500-1000 yen. McDonalds BicMac is 350 yen.

Dinner w.drink: 1500-4000 yen.

Club or Disco at Roppongi: I dunno :)

I need to add more info. Hmm.

I'll talk with some key person at today's codefest.