Laboratory for Integrated

Micro-Mechatronic Systems

Welcome to LIMMS !

LIMMS (Laboratory for Integrated Micro Mechatronic Systems) is a joint laboratory established in The Institute of Industrial Science IIS-The University of Tokyo in 1995 based on a research agreement between French CNRS and the University of Tokyo. After nine years of successful operation, LIMMS has been upgraded to the first International Joint Unit  (UMI-Unité Mixte Internationale) of CNRS in Asia in 2004, thereby obtaining an official eligibility to apply to EU funding. In December 2011, LIMMS and its EUJO-LIMMS extention became the EU’s first international laboratory in Japan.

LIMMS Office is well known for its experience and know-how in terms of hosting, counting more than 160 hosted researchers in the past 20 years. It provides researchers with a service package ranging from immigration, accommodation, to departure, which is now granted to EUJO-LIMMS researchers as well. 

We hope that you will find this welcome guide helpful and wish you a good installation in Tokyo!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIMMS/EUJO-LIMMS HOSTING PROCEDURE

Prospective researchers, please start here

FORMALITIES UPON ARRIVAL IN JAPAN

  • Resident Card Issuance
  • National Health Insurance
  • Your Embassy : contact and consular registration

HOUSING

  • Which accommodation to choose? 
  • Where to live around Komaba campus?
  • Glossary of Japanese terms

DAILY LIFE

Banking system

  • Mobile phone and Internet services
  • Tips to get furniture
  • Transport
  • Driving in Japan : switching your driver’s license
  • Learning Japanese language
  • Sport on campus
  • Eating on campus and surroundings
  • Living costs
  • Information channels and links

EMERGENCIES

  • Emergency Call
  • Health
  • Disaster prevention

EXPATRIATION INFORMATION

  • TAX
  • HEALTH INSURANCE, PENSION
  • RETURN PROCEDURE
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