Fujinomiya is located on the JR Minobu Line, linking Fuji on the JR Tokaido Line with Kofu on the JR Chuo Line.
There are a few ways to get to Fujinomiya from Tokyo, but the fastest method is to use the Tokaido route from Tokyo: to take a Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama train to Mishima, and change there for a Shizuoka-bound JR Tokaido Line local train.
At Fuji station, you need to change again to the JR Minobu Line for the final run to Fujinomiya.
Fujinomiya is, by all reports, a small country town.
Fujinomiya also has the dubious honour of being one of the poorest cities in Japan, a fact I mused over as I walked along a street with battered shops, none of which seemed to be selling anything I was terribly interested in even if they were open.
A young girl all in white (even her knee high boots were white) introduced us to half-an-hour of grown men lepping about in monster/hero costumes, all to a soundtrack that they only managed to synchronize with about sixty per cent of the time.
