【Japan Travel】Ibaraki One-Day Bus Tour from Tokyo.-P-LIFE.NET

I recently took a one-day trip from Tokyo to Ibaraki Prefecture via bus tour.

Since there is less tourist information in Ibaraki than in other prefectures, and some people may not know where to go, we decided to leave this experience in this article for reference.

Ibaraki One-Day Bus Tour

You want to go on a trip, but it's hard to plan it.

With a bus tour, you can leave everything to us.

There was a bus tour leaving Ueno Station at 7:30am and returning at 5pm, so I decided to join the tour.

※The bus tour we used this time→【English page of Hato Bus Tour】

9:00 Michi-no-Eki Joso

Arrival time was 9:00.

It was Sunday morning, but it took about 1.5 hours from Ueno Station via expressway.

Michi-no-Eki Joso

According to the bus guide, the specialty of Michi no Eki Joso is melon bread.

We had only one hour to stay here, and we had to wait in line to buy the melon bread, so we first looked for a melon bread store.

I found a banner.

banner

Once inside, I found a melon bread store.

Me, Melon, and the Bakery

This is what the inside of the restaurant looks like.

It took about 20 minutes to get inside because there was a line.

Store interior

The melon bread here has melon cream inside.

We enjoyed it deliciously.

melon bread

We stayed one hour as planned and left the roadside station at 10:00.

Our next destination was a restaurant for Hitachiniku beef at Mt.Tsukuba.

11:00 Mt. Tsukuba: Hitachino-Beef Cuisine Hitachino

It was about 11:00 when we arrived at the restaurant because of the traffic jam after we reached Mt.Tsukuba.

It took one hour from Michi-no-Eki Joso.

Here is the store we wanted to visit.

Hitachino-Beef Cuisine Hitachino

entrance

The restaurant has a nice atmosphere with a sunken hearth.

Sukiyaki of Hitachiniku Beef

The meat was soft and delicious.

After filling our stomachs, we will take the cable car to Mt.Tsukuba.

12:30 Mt. Tsukuba: Cable car

We left the restaurant at 12:00 pm and arrived at the cable car station at 12:30 pm.

The cable car takes only 8 minutes one way from Miyawaki Station to the summit station.

Since we were told that our stay here would be two hours, we hurried to board the cable car.

It was just the season of autumn leaves.

We were able to enjoy the autumn leaves from the windows of the cable car.

Mt. Tsukuba in autumn leaves

Autumn leaves from the train window

View from summit station

Mt. Tsukuba has two mountains, Nantai-yama and Nyotai-yama.

If anything, the Nyotai-yama mountain is more gentle.

So we decided to climb the Nyotai-yama peak.

Aiming for the summit of Nyotai-yama

I was told that the trail was relatively gentle, but there were rocky sections along the way.

There are rocky areas and it is quite difficult.

We climbed to the very top of the summit, but were unable to climb any further due to a line formed in the narrow passageway at the entrance to the summit.

The area around the summit was crowded with people taking pictures.

We gave up and turned back because we were going to be late for the bus.

Instead, we enjoyed a cup of coffee and the view at Cafe 877Stand at the summit station.

Cafe 877Stand

I was a bit nervous about the crowded cable car on the way back, but managed to get back in time for departure.

15:00 Apple picking at Sanpoen Tourist Orchard

Tsukuba, we proceeded along the Kasama-Tsukuba Line toward Ishioka City for about 20 minutes.

We arrived at Sanpo-en, a sightseeing orchard.

Sanpo-en

Here, they offer apple picking, persimmon picking, and sales of Shine Muscat.

This time, apple picking.

The harvested apples are peeled and eaten.

The taste was just right, with just the right amount of sweetness, and I was able to eat three pieces in 30 minutes.

And this was the end of our sightseeing tour.

I took the expressway back to Ueno Station.

The road on the way back was also crowded, and we arrived at Ueno at 18:00.

Although the one-day bus tour was a bit hectic, we were able to enjoy Ibaraki Prefecture to the fullest.

In the end

This time, I took a one-day bus tour to Ibaraki Prefecture.

Ibaraki Prefecture is only one to two hours from Tokyo by expressway, so please visit Ibaraki when you come to Japan.

There are many delicious foods in Ibaraki, such as melon bread and Hitachiniku beef.

Well, that's about it for this issue.

Thank you for reading to the end.