This Youth Hostel is near the Prefectural Park and you can hear the music of the warblers and cuckooes here. Also, you can get a full view of Ikeda town and the Yoshino river from this YH. You can take a bus from Awa Ikeda Station for a tour of mysterious lands, for example, rafting boats on the Oboke river, a Heike mansion , Kazura Birdge and the Iya valley.