Yoshino Getting there & around

Getting there & away

The village of Yoshino is on a shoulder of Yoshino-yama, at the bottom of which is Yoshino station. From Yoshino station, you can take the cable car to the village (one way/return ¥350/700) or walk up in 15 minutes on the path that leaves from beside the cable-car station. Note that the cable car stops running at 5pm – plan your day accordingly or you’ll have to walk down to the station (30 minutes).

To get to Yoshino station from Kyoto or Nara, take the Kintetsu Nara–Kashihara line to Kashihara-jingū-mae (kyūkō from Kyoto, ¥860, 66 minutes; kyūkō from Nara, ¥480, 36 minutes) and change to the Kintetsu Yoshino line (kyūkō, ¥460, 52 minutes).

You can take a direct train on the Kintetsu Minami–Osaka–Yoshino lines from Osaka (Abenobashi station, close to Tennō-ji station) to Yoshino (kyūkō, ¥950, 75 minutes).

The closest JR station to Yoshino is Yoshino-guchi, where you can transfer to trains to/from Nara, Osaka and Wakayama.