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Miho Museum - Getting there
We got to the museum from Kyoto via train and bus. We purchased our
tickets in the Kyoto train station the day before. Our outbound ticket
was from Kyoto to Ishiyama and the return was from Ishiyama to Kyoto to
Kansi
Airport in Osaka.
Kyoto to the museum
There is an express and a local train from Kyoto station to Ishiyama station.
The Express runs every 15 minutes most of the day -- including Sundays.
It makes two stops en route and takes 13 minutes. Our ticket was ¥460
or about $3.25 each way.
There is a regularly scheduled local bus from Ishiyama station to the
museum. There is a small bus terminal at the station. The bus is number
150 and has the destination in Japanese and English: MIHO MUSEUM. Hold
up your blue museum brochure and someone will see that you get on the right
bus. This is a local bus. People get on and off along the way. Our ticket
was ¥800 or $5.75 each way.
The bus ride takes 50 minutes. The first bus of the day leaves Ishiyama
at 9:10 to get you to the museum in time for the opening at 10:00. The
bus drops you off a short walk from the entrance to the museum.
Museum to Kyoto
The return bus picks up passengers near the entrance -- not where they
drop you off. Fifty minutes back to the train station. Catch the next train.
If it is an express, 13 minutes later you are back in Kyoto. (The local
takes 20 minutes.)
It is a short, clearly marked walk to the train to Kansai.
Additional access
information including the current bus schedule is available from the
museum's site.
Kyoto to Kansai
The train from Kototo Kansai Airport -- Osaka's International airport --
is called the Haruka. It takes about an hour and fifteen minutes.
On-board there is a brochure that describes the train and its service.
Two items worthy of note:
"Information Board in Both Japanese and English
The announcement concerning the trains stops and final destination
are all in both Japanese and English. In additon to the announcements,
an information board will provide information in both languages."
A sign of the changes that are coming to Japan:
"Female Conductors Provide Excellent Service
The HARUKA is the train which has female conductors. The conductors
are in charge of passenger service, commiting themselves to first-rate
service."
There are lockers on the second floor of the Kyoto station. We
left our back packs there and then waited for Cafe du Monde to open at
8:00 a.m. The literature on the table implied it is the same Cafe du Monde
as the one in New Orleans. Coffee, tea and scones. The sign said beignets;
but they didn't have any. We had plenty of time to caught an 8:30 train.
Another option would have been to catch an earlier train and have a
light breakfast at Mr. Donut across from the the Ishiyama station.
They open at 8:00.
On the return, we showed our tickets to the guard and went back into
the lobby of the train station. We had an afternoon ice cream, picked
up our back packs and then back onto the Kansai train for our next adventure.
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