(1000 Yen Participation Fee + 200 Yen  Entrance Fee for the Azalea Festival)

Please bring your own food and drink.

We will meet at the ticket gate of Ogose at 10:15AM. From Ikebukuro, take the Tobu Tojo Line’s Express Train at 9:10 and change at Sakado (arriving here at 9:54) to the Tobu Ogose Line. Take the 9:56AM Tobu Ogose Line train to Ogose Station.  It arrives there at 10:14AM.

If you’d like to go together from Ikebukuro, get on the front of the 9:10 Tobu Tojo Line train from there.

COURSE: Ogose Station – Ogose YuPark – Satoyama Observation Point – Mt. Ootakatori – Ogose Nature Centre (Optional) – Godaison Azalea Park Festival – Ogose Station

Godaison Azalea Park has about 10,000 Azalea plants. BEAUTIFUL!!!Please take a look: http://www.town.ogose.saitama.jp/kankonavi/matsuri/1450770458520.html

Please feel free to take a look at the course at these links (in Japanese):

http://www.town.ogose.saitama.jp/kankonavi/matsuri/1450770458520.html

(Course (in part)) http://www.tobu.co.jp/playing/hiking/sotochichibu/otakatori/

The walking time itself is about 4 hours. Should be a lot of fun! The train fare is 720 Yen one-way from Ikebukuro.