Location and Directions
Some online map direction sites and GPS navigation systems provide inaccurate directions to Shizuka Ryokan. It is recommended that the following is printed and used on your visit.
Shizuka Ryokan is located just over 100km north-west of Melbourne, on a 3.5 acre property in the heart of Australia's mineral water spa region of Hepburn Springs/Daylesford. Shizuka is around 75 minutes drive from the city of Melbourne and just over one hour from Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport.
Shizuka Ryokan is a convenient fifteen minute walk from the Hepburn Springs Bathouse complex and just a stone's throw from the Hepburn Springs Golf Course. The bustling town of Daylesford, with its myriad art galleries, craft stores and fine restaurants and cafes, is a short 5 minute drive away.
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
Warning: Some online travel direction sites and GPS navigation systems provide inaccurate directions to Shizuka Ryokan. It is recommended that the following is printed and used on your visit.
Hepburn Springs is very centrally located and close to major centres including;
- 5 minutes from Daylesford
- 8 minutes from Mount Franklin
- 30 minutes from Trentham
- 30 minutes from Castlemaine
- 45 minutes from Ballarat
- 50 minutes from Bendigo
- 70 minutes from Melbourne Tullamarine Airport
- 80 minutes from Melbourne city
Some online map direction sites provide inaccurate directions to Shizuka Ryokan. It is recommended that the following directions under the map is printed and used on your visit.
FROM MELBOURNE
Depending on the point of departure, Shizuka Ryokan is equally accessible via two main routes from Melbourne. Each route is approximately equal distance of 105km from the city and is also an equivalent travelling time of approximately 80 minutes. One route is via the Western Freeway heading towards Ballarat and this route passes near Deer Park, Bacchus Marsh and Ballan. The other is via the Calder Freeway heading towards Bendigo and passes near Hanging Rock, Mount Macedon, Woodend and Trentham. The Calder Freeway route is perhaps the more scenic but involves a little less freeway travel and thus slightly more country road driving.
VIA WESTERN FREEWAY
- From the city, cross the Westgate Bridge
- Enter the Western Ring Road
- Enter Western Freeway, travelling in the direction of Ballarat
- Drive approx 45 mins and pass a big BP service centres
- Take the next exit to "Ballan / Daylesford" a few minutes after the BP service centre
- Follow signs to Daylesford, some 30km away
- From Daylesford, follow signs to Hepburn Springs, which is another 4km - basically, go through the main street and follow that road north
- In Hepburn Springs, see a blue sign for Shizuka Ryokan and turn left at Main Street
- Go down hill, through Doctor's Gully and you will turn left into Golf Links Drive with signs to Shizuka Ryokan and the Golf Club
- Where Golf Links Drive forks to the right towards the golf club, please turn left into Lakeside Drive towards Shizuka Ryokan about 50 metres along on left side
VIA CALDER FREEWAY
- Enter the Western Ring Road if necessary, then the Calder Freeway, or M79, travelling in the direction of Bendigo
- Drive along the Calder for approx 35 mins
- Do not exit on the C792 to Woodend and Macedon, but continue a further 5 minutes on the Calder
- Take the second exit, or C324, to "Woodend, Lancefield, Romsey" just before the overpass
- Soon, at the T intersection, turn left on C792 and then left again at the next T intersection towards Woodend and Daylesford
- Turn right onto C317 and follow signs to Trentham and then Daylesford, some 45km away
- At Tylden, veer left on C317/C318
- Turn right onto C317 (to bypass C318 and Trentham) and head towards Daylesford
- At Daylesford, join the A300 then turn right at the main street roundabout and follow the C138 north towards Hepburn Springs
- In Hepburn Springs, see a blue sign for Shizuka Ryokan and turn left at Main Street
- Go down hill, through Doctor's Gully and you will turn left into Golf Links Drive with signs to Shizuka Ryokan and the Golf Club
- Where Golf Links Drive forks to the right to the golf club, please turn left into Lakeside Drive towards Shizuka Ryokan about 50 metres along on left side
FROM SYDNEY/NORTH-EAST VICTORIA
VIA HUME FREEWAY
- From Albury/Wodonga, head towards Melbourne on Freeway
- Take the Broadford exit (just after Seymour)
- Go through Kilmore, then take a right turn heading towards Lancefield
- Follow signs to Woodend
- Follow signs to Daylesford (C317)
- You will come into Daylesford
- From Daylesford, follow signs to Hepburn Springs, which is another 4km - basically, turn right at the main street and follow that road north
- In Hepburn Springs, see a blue sign for Shizuka Ryokan and turn left at Main Street
- Go down hill, through Doctor's Gully and you will turn left into Golf Links Drive with signs to Shizuka Ryokan and the Golf Club
- Where Golf Links Drive forks to the right to the golf club, please turn left into Lakeside Drive towards Shizuka Ryokan about 50 metres along on left side