Showing posts with label enoshima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enoshima. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

A quick jaunt to Kamakura

Well I'm beat. This 3 1/2 day weekend has let me have it, and I still have to get out and enjoy that last half day. So once again, you're only going to get a snippet of a blog, which I happen to think some of you might enjoy better anyway. (We've talked about my tendency to be verbose, right?)

I started out the day in Kitakamakura which is pretty beautiful and has some nice temples, but it's hard to understand much without a guide book if you don't read Japanese. It looks like this:

and has a LOT of these:

This was followed by a stop in Kamakura proper where I went to the beach (seen from above at the Hasedera temple):

and visited this guy. I've heard he's kind of a big deal:


Then I made my way over to Enoshima Island and saw a traditional Japanese street performance:

...or not. And even took an adventure into Iwaya cave:

That would be the universal sign for "Tophs, don't hit your head. These caves were designed for less than four feet tall Japanese women".

And finally, after a long day away from home, I found just what I needed... a good Judy Garland reference. They might wanna re-watch the movie, though... there's no coffee in it, and we prefer spelling that word with an R.


Fully verbose recaps to come, I promise. But now I'm gonna go get my retail therapy on in Shibuya! Then sound check at the hotel!!! Woo hoo!