Mar. 3, Visiting Japanese Traditional Rural Area, IWAMURA-----Good Landscape, Sake Brewery, HINA Dolls’ Festival

The winter day trip will be held on 3rd of Mar. by Morning Voice. We will visit IWAMURA as a kind of annual event, but we change a plan a little. Before going to IWAMURA sake brewery, we are going to visit good viewing point near the brewery. The detail information is below. Anyone who wants to join us can go there with us. Please ask your friends to join us.

Date: Mar. 3, 2013 (Sun.)
Meeting place, time and Participation fee (including only all transportation expenses):
1. The wicket on the ground of JR Chikusa sta. at 9:50 AM: 2,900 yen
2. The wicket of JR Ena sta. at 11:30 AM: 850 yen

Schedule: Train Chikusa 10:12--(JR)--10:38 Tajimi
Train Tajimi 10:42--(JR)--11:09 Ena
Train Ena 11:38--(Akechi Tetsudoh)--12:02 Iibama
Taking commemorative photos in front of Iibama sta. or Ena sta.
Walk to a viewing point (30 min walk)
Lunch at the point
Walk to a sake brewery (30 min walk)
Free to walk around (ruin of castle, museum of Hina dolls and so on)
Meeting at Iwamura sta. at 16:10
Train Iwamura 16:27--(Akechi Tetsudoh)--16:54 Ena
Breaking up at Ena sta.
Dinner party around Ena sta. or Chikusa sta. ?

*Bring a lunch box to have lunch at the viewing point
*Going to the viewing point might be skipped in the case of rain.
* You can taste several kinds of sake which were brewed in the place we will visit. At the brewery, we have to buy a small cup for tasting with 100 yen or we can use it we bought last year. Then we will be able to taste sake all you can drink.
* It takes 10-15 min. from IWAMURA Sake brewery to the station.
* On the way to Iwamura sta., 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.
* You can leave earlier or later than official schedule. There are trains from Iwamura to Ena every one hour.

Host group is 'Morning Voice'.
If you want to join us or you have any questions,
please call me (KUMIMOTO Hiroshi) at 090-9173-9599

References (1) Regular transportation fee: Chikusa-Ena (JR) 1,110 yen (for one way)
Ena-Iibama (Akechi Tetsukoh) 420 yen (for one way)
Iwamura - Ena (Akechi Tetsudoh) 470 yen (for one way)
Since we will prepare discount tickets on both railways (JR & Akechi Tetsudoh), your registration beforehand is very helpful for management of the trip.
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