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Travel to Shimizu Forest Park onsen
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2009/1/15 04:57
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My family plans to spend a long Sunday afternoon/evening in the Shizuoka city area during mid-May (making some JR connections while maximizing the use of our passes--but also wanting to visit this area if only ''enroute'' to Naoshima). Happily, I've found an excellent website in English about sites we can visit quite close in to Shizuoka City, which seems to welcome tourists: http://www.shizuoka-cvb.or.jp/tour_guide/en/ I've also found (elsewhere) mention of some municipal hot springs in the Shimizu Forest Park that we'd like to visit for a few hours, if we can get there by train and bus. Information on it is somehow linked to that website (#69 of things to see and do in the Shizuoka-Shimizu area) but the link seems to be broken and I can't in any case figure out from the information provided how to get to the right bus stop (''Nishizato Onsen''?) from the Shimizu Station or possibly from the ''Roman tour bus'' route that runs around Shizuoka City. ( Unfortunately, I don't read/speak Japanese.) I'd be really grateful for any tips about getting from/to the Shizuoka Station to the Shimizu Forest Park inexpensively, if possible. Thanks very much!
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by Midwesttraveler (guest)
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Thanks..and a follow up question!
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2009/1/15 14:37
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Thank you very much for that prompt and enormously helpful reply. The excursion really does sound doable, perhaps with a bit of help from local travelers: I'll print out the map and schedules and ask passers-by to point out the way to the buses, if necessary.
A follow up question for you or another poster, if I may. We won't be able to take this excursion unless we can leave our luggage somewhere for the ca. 10 hours between trains. Thus we're hoping that the train station has a "left luggage" service or storage lockers--as I think is possible at some stations in Japan? (Those who have travelled in the U.S. will know how difficult that can be here, to leave luggage while travelling anywhere but your hotel).
Since we won't have a hotel in Shizuoke, we're really hoping that the JR train station has such a service (or that we can check our bags through from Tokyo to Takamatsu?) Without that (or an alternative place to leave the luggage), we'll not be able to venture far in Shizuoka at all.
Thanks in advance for responses to this query, and again for the very useful reply, Ugi.
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by Midwesttraveler (guest)
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