Visiting Japanese Small Village, IWAMURA ---Sake Brewery and HINA Dolls’ Festival
The season for day tour by the Morning Voice has come. Recently, it became an annual event to visit a small village, IWAMURA(1, 2), by Morning Voice (3). The detail information is below. Anyone who wants to join us can go there with us. Please ask your friends to join us.
Date: Feb. 11, 2011 (Fri., National holiday) Meeting place, time and Participation fee (including only all transportation expenses): 1. The wicket on the ground of JR Chikusa st. at 9:40 AM: 2,900 yen 2. The wicket of JR Ena st. at 11:30 AM: 850 yen ref. regular transportation fee: Chikusa-Ena (JR) 1,110 yen (for one way) Ena-Iwamura (Akechi Tetsudoh) 470 yen (for one way) Since we will purchase frequency discount tickets on both railways (JR & Akechi Tetsudoh), your registration beforehand is very helpful for management of the trip.
Schedule: Train Chikusa 10:12--(JR)--10:37 Tajimi Train Tajimi 10:42--(JR)--11:09 Ena Train Ena 11:38--(Akechi Tetsudoh)--12:08 Iwamura Taking commemorative photos in front of Iwamura st. Free in the village (sake brewery, ruin of castle, museum of Hina dolls and so on) Meeting at Iwamura st. at 16:10 Train Iwamura 16:27--(Akechi Tetsudoh)--16.54 Ena Breaking up at Ena st. Dinner party around Ena st. or Chikusa st.
* You can taste several kinds of sake which were brewed in the place we will visit. Since Iwamura is a very small village, I recommend that you should buy anything you need, such as some snacks and tea. * It takes 10-15 min. to IWAMURA Sake brewery from the station. At the brewery, we have to buy a small cup for tasting with 100 yen. Then we will be able to taste sake all you can drink. If you bought it last year, you can use it instead of buying it. * It takes 30-40 min. to the ruin of IWAMURA castle (on the hill) from Sake brewery. * On the way to the Sake brewery, there are several houses in which dolls for the girls' festival are shown and a kind of museum for traditional handicrafts. * There are also several shops which sell noted products of the area, such as a sponge cake (Castelha), pickled vegetables and so on. * Lunch is not organized. There are a few restaurants which is not big, in the village. * You can leave earlier or later than official schedule. There are trains from Iwamura to Ena every one hour.