Access - Intelligent Informatics Initiative (I3) - Atsushi Inoue

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I am currently residing in the vicinity of Spokane, WA, USA -- my local map.

Official visitor's site (restaurants, bars, hotels, shopping, etc.) -- http://www.visitspokane.com/
Accommodation -- many hotels and B&Bs are available in town. See the above official visitor's site.

Note 1. Consider our best hotel if your budget allows -- http://www.davenporthotelcollection.com/our-hotels/the-historic-davenport-hotel/
Note 2. You may find good Air B&B hosts in the region at http://www.airbnb.com/

Meal -- Consider those places for fun.

Frank's dinner if you like trains.
Skyway Cafe if you like airplanes and helicopters.
The Onion if you like burgers at a bar. Appeared in the movie Vision Quest (1985).

Spokane International Airport (GEG) -- http://spokaneairports.net/
Amtrak (Empire Builder between Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA/Portland, OR) and Grayhound (to/from Seattle, WA) are serving but very limited -- Spokane Intermodal Center.
Local transportation

Bus -- Spokane Transit Authority

Route 60 serves GEG to/from downtown. About 20 min. 1.75USD per ride.
Routes 26, 28 and 29 serve EWU Spokane to/from downtown. About 5min. Same fare.
Route 66 (or, sometimes 165) serves EWU Cheney campus (the main campus). About 35min. Same fare.

Taxis are available but very difficult to catch except a few designated places such as the train station, the airport and major hotels.

Spokane Cab 24-hour dispatch service. +1 509 568 8000
I would recommend using UBER and Lyft.

Parking

I would recommend using Whoosh! when drive & park. EWU-WSU Spokane campus also particiaptes in this service.

Cellphone

H2O Wireless (AT&T MVNO) PAYG plan is recommended (5 cents per minute or SMS, 10 cents per 1MB data at 2G/3G/4G speed).
SpeedTalk (T-mobile, AT&T MVNO) Manageable Plan is recommended (5USD/mo for 250 unites of Voice/SMS/Data, where 1 unit is either 1-min voice, 1 SMS, or 1MB of data).