Overview of Kobe Campus
Keihanna Campus
The Keihanna Science City (officially known as the Kansai Science City) is located in the Keihanna Hills, a region that includes parts of Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara prefectures. More than 150 research, academic, and cultural facilities across 12 clusters engage in research and development in a variety of fields, including environmental and energy sciences, ICT, biosciences, optical science, and nanoscience.
Since FY 2016, RIKEN has been conducting research activities in collaboration with universities, research institutes, and companies in the region, and is currently promoting a robotics project for a future society where humans and AI/robots will coexist flexibly, development of fundamental technologies of AI for solving social issues, and development of drug discovery platforms using iPS cells, mainly in the Seika and Nishi-Kizu areas.
Map
For directions to each research location, please see “Organization details” below.
There is a bus that runs directly from Kyoto Station to Keihanna Science City. Please look at the link below for more information.
Organization list
*Click on the laboratory team names to see contact and access information.
Research
Guardian Robot Project(GRP)
Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team ※An Intelligent Robot Dialogue laboratory led by Professor Koichiro Yoshino has been set up within this team as a collaborating research laboratory with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Division of Information Science. |
Team Director:Koichiro Yoshino Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Psychological Process Research Team | Team Director:Wataru Sato Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Interactive Robot Research Team
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Team Director:Takashi Minato Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Multimodal Data Recognition Research Team ※A Multimodal Environment Recognition laboratory led by Professor Yasumoto Kawanishi has been set up within this Team as a collaborating research laboratory with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Division of Information Science.
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Team Director:Yasutomo Kawanishi Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Man-Machine Collaboration Research Team | Team Director:Takashi Minato Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Behavior Learning Research Team | Team Director:Yutaka Nakamura Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project(AIP)
Disaster Resilience Science Team | Team Director:Naonori Ueda Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Computational Brain Dynamics Team | Team Director:Okito Yamashita Research Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
RIKEN BioResource Research Center(BRC)
iPSC-based Drug Discovery and Development Team | Team Director:Haruhisa Inoue Research Location: Keihanna Plaza |
Administration
Wako Operation Division, Safety and Campus Operation Group
Keihanna Administrative Section | Research Location:Keihanna Plaza |
Organization details

Research Location
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(ATR), 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
Contact
Guardian Robot Project(GRP)
3rd Floor, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
TEL:+81-(0)772-95-1360
Email:robotics-info[at]ml.riken.jp ※Please replace [at] with @.

Research Location
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(ATR), 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
Contact
Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Nihonbashi 1-chome Mitsui Building, 15th floor, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

Research Location
Keihanna Plaza, Laboratory Bldg.7th floor, 1-7 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
Contact
Tsukuba Branch
3-1-1, Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
Email:tsukuba-kikaku[at]riken.jp ※Please replace [at] with @.
④Keihanna Administrative Section

Research Location
Keihanna Plaza, Laboratory Bldg.7th floor, 1-7 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
Contact
Keihanna Administrative Section
Keihanna Plaza, Laboratory Bldg.7th floor, 1-7 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
TEL:+81-(0)50-3500-5354
FAX:+81-(0)3-6772-0735 [Internet FAX]
Email:keihanna_inquiry[at]ml.riken.jp ※Please replace [at] with @.