Date: Feb. 11, 2009 (Wed., N.H.)
Meeting place: The wicket on the ground of JR Chikusa st. (but you can join at any place)
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)
Since we will use a group discount on both railways, your registration is required.
Schedule:
Chikusa 10:23--(JR)--11:08 Ena (Change trains)
Ena 11:37--(Akechi Tesudoh)--12:06 Iwamura

* You can taste several kind of sake which were brewed in the place we will visit. However, there is no convenience store in front of IWAMURA st., you should buy anything you need, such as some snacks with drinking, during the time you are waiting at ENA st.
* It takes 10-15 min. to IWAMURA Sake brewery from the station.
* It takes 30-40 min. to the ruin of IWAMURA castle (on the hill) from Sake brewary.
* 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, a sponge cake (castella), pickled vegetables and so on.
* Lunch is not organized.
We will leave IWAMURA by train at 16:26 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 call me (KUMIMOTO Hiroshi) at 090-9173-9599
or mail me at kumimoto@csc.jp