We recommend to book accommodation in Garching or Garching Forschungszentrum.
- Garching center: There are a number of hotels commonly book by visitors coming to visit EUROfusion and IPP. There are many restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries to buy food from.
- Garching Forschungszentrum: There are hotels next to the IPP institute. However, please consider that there are no shops or restaurants in the area in the evening. Thus, you would have to travel to Garching or Munich to have dinner.
Alternatively, you can also book accommodation in Neufahrn (2 S-Bahn stations from the airport and direct bus connection to Garching Forschungszentrum) or in Munich (recommend to be close to the U6 underground line).
Munich transportation system:
Munich has a good public transportation system (MVV). It relies on fast local trains (S-Bahns), underground (U-Bahns) and buses. IPP (and EUROfusion) is at the north end of the U6 underground line.
- From the airport to Garching Forschungszentrum: Take the S1 to Neufahr, then the bus 690 to Garching Forschungszentrum. Be careful as the bus stop in Neufahrn goes in both directions. Make sure to take the 690 bus that says Garching Forschunszentrum.
- From the airport to Garching center: A more convenient way is to take the S8 to Ismaning, then the bus 230 to Garching.
There are ticket booths at the airport to buy tickets. You can
1. type in the start and end station OR
2. identify the zones (see color coding on the map below) that you would like to cross. Airport is in zone 5, Garching is in zone 2, but Ismaning is in zone 1, so you need a ticket to cover zones 2-5 (coming through Neufahrn) or zones 1-5 (coming through Ismaning) and do not need to cover the center (zone M). OR
3. buy a Streifenkarte (10 strips) and pay usually 2 strips per zone. - Usually the cheapest option.
- Airport to Garching center through Ismaning - 5 stripes
- Airport to Garching Forschungszentrum or Garching through Neufahrn - 4 stripes
- Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum - 1 stripe only with U6.
If you like to travel to Munich center (e.g. for the excursion on Wednesday), there are day tickets and also group tickets that are worth considering.
Travel to the institute: to go to the institute please walk to the nearest underground (U-Bahn) station for the U6 line in the center of Garching. There is an U6 underground roughly every 10 minutes or less. It is one station from Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum where the institute is located. Use 1 stripe from a Streifenkarte that has 10 stripes OR buy a single ticket.
Garching Forschungszentrum (Area of the Technical University of Munich and the research centres of the Max-Planck-Institutes)
The south exit of the underground station leads directly to the gate of the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics. For specific details, please see the map of the area: https://portal.mytum.de/campus/garching/TUM_Campus_Garching_web
Garching campus of the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), EUROfusion and Fusion for Energy (F4E)
Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany
Web page: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/en
Map of the IPP Garching campus (including EUROfusion and Fusion for Energy):
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5415913/venue
- EUROfusion is in building R1-R3 (top/north of the map) - go straight from the gate, cross the river, turn left and the building opposite is the R1-R3 building hosting Fusion for Energy and EUROfusion.
- The talks will take place in the D2 seminar room.
- Fusion for Energy is in building R1
- The IPP cantine is in C2 (middle of the map)
- ASDEX Upgrade is in L6 (right/east of the map)
