Tilden park is located in the hills near Oakland, Emeryville and Berkeley. Like any big park, there are things to see throughout.
We have typically taken the kids there for both the park, little farm and Tilden natural area for some short hikes.
But we’ve mainly come to experience the steam train.
The location is actually further south. Take Central Park Dr until you hit the Tilden Merry Go Around.
For this trip, I really wanted to experience a few different lines. I was planning to use the Shonan Monorail (which looks awesome), to get near Enoshima Island, but Satoshi-san drove us instead.
Thursday
Haneda airport to Tenkubashi station
Tenkubashi station to Keikyu-Kamata station
Keikyu-Kamata station to Tobe station
Tobe station in relation to Yokohama station.
I checked in, then went to Takashimacho station (subway station)
Takashimacho station to Shin Yokohama (Blue Line subway)
Shin-Yokohama station to Tokyo station (Shinkansen)
Tokyo station to Akihabara station (Yamanote line)
Akihabara to Yashio station (Tsukuba Express)
Yashio station to Kawagoe station
Break down:
Yashio station to Minami-Nagareyama station (Tsukuba Express)
Minami-Nagareyama station to Kita Asaka station (JR Musashino line)
Kita Asaka station to Asakadai station (walk)
Asakadai station to Kawagoe station (Tobu Tojo line)
Kawagoe station to Musashi-Takahagi station (Kawagoe line)
After my meet up, I took the last train home.
Kawagoe station to Ikebukuro station
Ikebukuro station to Shinagawa station (Yamanote line)
Shinagawa station to Yokohama station (Keikyu line)
Friday
Shin Yokohama statoin to Tokyo Station via Shinkansen
Tokyo Station to Minami-Urawa station via Keihintohoku line.
Then from Minami-Urawa station to Yoshikawa station via Musashino line.
To get back to Shin Yokohama, I went in reverse.
At Shin Yokohama station, I went to Refresh 60 via Blue line
After my visit, I went to Yokohama station.
My plan was to experience the Enoshima monorail, but Satoshi-san picked me up and we drove to Enoshima Island. Satoshi-san then drove me to Shinagawa station so I could go to Shinjuku station. I used the Yamanote line.
After my dinner with Original JDM guy, I left Shinjuku station for Tokyo station via Marunochi line.
Since our dinner over ran the time, I was ony have a few minute to get to Platform 9 with a few items. My luggage was in storage and I don’t think I would have made it!
This was my Sunrise Seto experience which is the last night train in Japan. I would be getting off at Okayama in the morning.
I had enough time to buy an eki ben and set up. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a shower card.
The trip was overnight.
Saturday
Now was the back track. I was suppose to be in Fujinomiya by the end of the day, which is in Shizuoka. I unfortunately left my luggage at Tokyo Station, so I would eventually overshoot Shizuoka and go directly to Tokyo AND THEN BACK TO SHIZUOKA!!!
Anyways, time to head back that way.
I took the Shinkansen from Okayama station to Shin-Kobe station.
At Shin Kobe Station, I wanted to see Gigantor statue, so I I had to go to Sannomiya Station via Subway Seihan-Yamate line
I then had to jump trains. Sannomiya station bottom (where subway is) and head outside on top, to get on the JR Tokaido Sanyo main line.
then reverse steps.
Shin-Kobe station to Kyoto station via Shinkansen
Kyoto station is huge, so I explored Escalator mountain.
Not only that, Kyoto station is one of my favorite because of Escalator Mountain!
After that, I had to visit the Fushimi Inari shrine, this is the famous Torii Gates. You have to take the JR Nara line (D) to get there.
I bought a few things around Kyoto station and waited for the Shinkansen as I was heading to Tokyo.
Once there I had to change really quick and get on the Shinkansen again to Mishima station and then go to Fuji station from there.
Sunday
After the meeting, Okuni-san dropped me off at fujinomiya station.
Then Fuji station to Mishima station via Tokaido main line
I met with my aunt there, to get a few things. Then I jumped on the bullet train for Shin Yokohama station
From our place in Strasbourg- Saint Denis, we jumped on the Metro 8 to reach the Invalides station. This is where you jump on the RER C (trains that go outside of inner Paris).
We took some stairs and got to the RER part of the station (different hall and platforms).
The RER trains are 2 level compared to the metro (at least the metros we used on this trip).
If you can see on the far bottom left of the station map, our stop was going to be Versailles – Chateau/ Rive-Gauche stop.
A good 45 minute ride (if that) and we are here.
Arrival!
