Pretty much the same text here as the text at the Ichigo Bridge, which is right next to this bridge. I walked on both bridges, but only took pictures of the Ichigo bridge while standing on this bridge. Both bridges are very nice, but I like the Ichigo bridge just a bit more. Mizuko is very simple, Ichigo has something extra with it's unique shape.

The bridges are about 15 minutes of walking away from the hostels area, maybe 10 minutes if you know the way and walk fast. Times are not very accurate, cause I walked quite slow. Needed to keep track of where I am and I needed to make pictures of everything interesting I passed.

A trip around the lake can easily take 3 hours, best is to start in the morning walking from the hostels area towards Camp Site and continue on. H-shop is a very nice stop-point. You can rest there, have lunch, check out onegai stuff they got there, play shogi against the shop owner, really relaxing place ^_^.
Picture from the statue and the next two are not part of the Onegai Tour, just something I came across while walking from the bridges towards Maiku House.