Tazawa-ko Getting there & around

Getting there & away

On the Akita shinkansen line, Tazawa-ko is within easy reach of Morioka (¥1980, 33 minutes), Kakunodate (¥1560, 13minutes) and Akita (¥3280, one hour), and it is only a three-hour trip from Tokyo (¥15, 240, 186 minutes). Local trains run infrequently along the JR Tazawa-ko line to Morioka (¥740, 60 minutes) and Kakunodate (¥320, 20 minutes).

If you’re heading west, it’s easiest to take the bus from Tazawa Kohan via Tazawa-ko station to Kakunodate (¥840, 52 minutes, nine daily); departures before 4.10pm continue to Akita (¥1680, 2¼ hours). From December to March, services to and from Tazawa Kohan, but not Tazawa-ko station, are suspended.

Between 20 April and 31 October, three buses daily leave Tazawa-ko station for Hachimantai Chōjō (¥1990, 2¼ hours); the last bus leaves at 12.40pm.