Day 7: Tokyo to Kinugawa onsen. Visit Edo Wonderland. Stay at Kinugawa onsen.
This day's itinerary:
0718-0803 Ueno to Utsunomiya via Shinkansen (45mins)
0823-0900 Utsunomiya to Imaichi via JR Nikko line (37mins)
Took a short 3mins cab ride from Imaichi station to Shimo-Imaichi station
0927-0942 Shimo-Imaichi to Shin-Takatoku station via Tobu Kinugawa local train (15mins, 200yen)
Took a short 5mins cab ride from Shin-Takatoku station to Edo Wonderland
Visit Edo Wonderland (closes on Wed)
1520-1535 Bus from Edo Wonderland to Kinugawa onsen station.
Bought some snacks and drinks from convenience store opposite the train station.
Took a short 5mins cab ride from Kinugawa onsen station to our hotel.
There are actually a few different ways of getting from Tokyo to Nikko/Kinugawa onsen.
The more convenient way is to take a direct Tobu Ltd Exp train from Shinjuku in Tokyo to Nikko, then transfer to Tobu Kinugawa line to reach Kinugawa onsen station.
However, since Tobu is a non-JR company train line, therefore it is not covered by JR railpass (which we are using for the trip).
Therefore, we took a longer journey with more train transfers to get from Tokyo to Kinugawa onsen area.
209) After taking Shinkansen from Ueno station at Tokyo to Utsunomiya station, we then transferred to a local train on JR Nikko line at Utsunomiya station to Imaichi station.
210) Onboard JR Nikko line local train
211) There's a toilet onboard the JR Nikko line train.