Facilities in Kyoto

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33373, 3 November 1973, Page 16

Facilities in Kyoto

Christchurch, with its new Town Hall complex, may justifiably claim to be the conference centre of New Zealand, but it has a long way to go to match the facilities provided in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto was the venue of a recent international congress on rheumatology attended by Dr J. A. Kirk, a Christchurch rheumatologist, who brought hack some information about it.

The equipment in Kyoto includes facilities for the simultaneous interpretation into (six languages in six large conference halls, closedcircuit television with two cameras and 23 receivers, broadcasting relay facilities for radio and television projectors, typewriters for English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese, document reproduction and handling equipment, and 600 telephone lines. The main conference hall can accommodate up to 2000 people. There are five other conference rooms, nine meeting rooms, 30 private rooms for delegates, and 14 offices for the conference secretariat.

The conference building is in the mountains to the north of Kyoto, “a city packed with temples and other monuments to the long history of Japan, and overlooks a beautiful Japanese-style garden with teahouse and boating lake.”