Meeting place: The gate on the ground of JR Chikusa st.
Meeting time: 10:00 AM
Transportation expenses: Chikusa-Ena (JR) 1,110 yen (for one way)
Ena-Iwamura (Akechi Tetsudoh) 470 yen (for one way)
We may use a group discount.
Schedule:
Chikusa 10:12--(JR)--11:03 Ena (Change trains)
Ena 11:31--(Akechi Tesudoh)--11:59 Iwamura

* There is no convenience store in front of IWAMURA st., you should buy anything you need, such as nibbles for drinking, during the time you are waiting at ENA st.
* It takes 10-15 min. to IWAMURA Sake brewery.
* It takes 45-50 min. to the ruin of IWAMURA castle (on the hill).
* On the way to IWAMURA Sake brewery, there are several houses in which dolls for the girl's festival are shown and a kind of museum for traditional handicrafts.
* There are also several shops which sell noted products of the area, a sponge cake (castella), pickled vegetables and so on.
* Lunch is not organized.
We will leave IWAMURA by train at 16:20 PM.

References
(1) http://www.iw.vrtc.net/~fureai-yakata/kankou/
(2) http://www.iw.vrtc.net/~fureai-yakata/kankou/map.html

If you want to join us or you have any questions,
please mail me.