I am not sure of the name of this park but I think is called
Futagoyama. I came across this park when searching through books on
good birding spots in Japan. After having moved to the edge of one
of the most densely populated cities in the world, I found that
this location was a peaceful place to disappear to from the “city”
life, since the park was just a hill away from home (<3 km), I
made many trips on the trail of this park and have ticked several
birds in this park. We have never walked to full length of this
trail but we have walked it for 30 minutes and not reached the end.
Of course my boys get busy searching the stream for critters and so
we never get very far.
You can park at the end of the little road. Keikyu Shin-Zushi
Train station is about a 30 minute walk from the beginning of the
trail. I am not sure about the buses.
This is a two-stage multi-cache. The first cache will give you
the coordinates for the second. The second cache is large enough to
hide some smaller travel bugs and exchange items. The second cache
is a small plastic container about 15x25x5 cm in size painted green
and black. The difficulty of the final hide is a 3, be sure to
cover the cache as found for protection. The GPS reading really
bounces around here and I had to reposition the first cache 3 times
until I could get a consistent reading, the second stage was
completed after having made 5 readings and finding an average. The
terrain is a 4 since you must cross several tree falls and
landslides and then move along the bank.
Admin Note - since the cache owner has not attended to this
one in 7 months, it has been changed to a single-stage cache. The
posted coordinates are for the only remaining portion of this
cache.