Visiting Teams

Visiting coaches, athletes, ADs, parents, officals

COVID 19: INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISITING ATHLETES, FANS, OFFICIALS
As of December 2021, SOIS welcomes athletes and fans and officials to the Sabers facilities for sporting events, with the safety guidelines listed below. Please read carefully. The Sabers appreciate your cooperation in helping make our events safer for all of us.

Visiting teams

Please read this bilingual Guide for Visitors.
ADs or coaches: Please prepare a list of names of all team members (including managers and coaches) and their individual temperatures recorded the morning of the event. Submit this list upon arrival to the security guards at the "red counter" in the genkan. Alternatively, visiting teams can bring a name list and use the temperature monitor at the red counter (this will take longer).
The temperature monitor is used for any visitors whose temperatures have not been recorded.
Visiting coaches to sign in as representatives of their teams and receive visitor tags to wear.
All visitors wash their hands thoroughly in the genkan before proceeding further.
All visitors wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Fans and officials

Please read this bilingual Guide for Visitors.
Take temperature at the monitor at the security guard "red counter" in the genkan.
Sign in at the red counter.
Wash hands thoroughly in the genkan before proceeding further.
Wear a mask and practice social distancing.
Enter the gym via the 3rd floor (gym upper level) entrance and watch the game from above.

Summary of WJAA "codes of behavior"

Thank you very much for making the journey to northern Osaka to play against the Sabers. We at Senri & Osaka International Schools (SOIS) are honored to host you. We host many events at SOIS and frequently house visiting student-athletes overnight in our classrooms. We are happy to do so. We hope your experience at our school is a positive and rewarding one. Best wishes to you in the upcoming competition.

Please click on the "overnight information" link to the right for information about overnight sleeping, neighborhood shops, directions, taxis,and contact details.
And if you are lucky enough to be sleeping overnight on a rented futon, please click on the link to the right for special origami futon-folding instructions (photo below).
KG Sanda soccer ground access information (HS soccer)
Nearest train station: Kita-Senri (Hankyu line), 20-minute walk or 5-minute taxi ride to SOIS.
Nearest hotel: AISA coaches stay at the Senri Hankyu Hotel, located near the bustling Senri-Chuo train station, a 10-minute taxi ride (1600 yen) to SOIS.

Shopping malls
Q’s Mall みのおキューズモール outdoor shopping mall

8-minute taxi ride (about 1200 yen) from school. (Some students have walked.)
Aeon department store, Sports Depot sporting goods store, Uniqlo, Starbucks, Subway sandwich shop, First Kitchen (fast food), 109 Cinema, many other shops and restaurants.

Lalaport at Expo City - largest shopping center in Japan, home of highest Ferris wheel in Japan

20-minute taxi ride (about 2500 yen) from school.
100s of stores, shops, restaurants, attractions. Movie theater. Ferris wheel. Food court.

Other hotels:

Hotel Hankyu Expo Park (10,000+ yen; 15-minute taxi ride to SOIS; next to LaLaPort Expo City)
Via Inn Shin Osaka (less than 10,000 yen; very near Shin-Osaka shinkansen station; 25 minutes to SOIS; 10 minutes to Umeda city center)
Shin Osaka Washington Hotel (less than 10,000 yen; 490 rooms; very near Shin-Osaka station)
New Osaka Hotel (less than 10,000 yen; closest hotel to Shin-Osaka station; often fully booked)
Tokyu REI Hotel Esaka (Esaka station: 11 minutes to Umeda, 5 minutes to Shin-Osaka station, 10 minutes to Senri-Chuo station on the Midosuji subway line; 25 minutes total to SOIS)
APA Hotel Higobashi (Umeda, city center; 55 minutes to SOIS)
Hotel Hankyu International (15,000+ yen luxury hotel in Umeda, near Hankyu line; 45 minutes to SOIS)