Kamakura Park Hotel

... all some form of Japanese pickled plum (which I love btw). They had pickled plum in pretty much any form you can imagine: candies, sauces, onigiri seasoning, etc. and so forth...

Although I never went down to the beach (I was like 2 blocks away), Kamakura is right on the ocean and there are several beaches to enjoy. This is another town (like most of the others I already visited) that I wouldn't mind spending some more time exploring.

The highlight of ...

... to you in spades. I washed a 500 yen coin, not having the will to soak my bills (as basically everyone else was doing) and hoping it dries OK. But definitely a different Shinto shrine experience. After Zeniarai, it was back along the hiking path until Daibutsu, which was a huge bronze cast Buddha sitting serenely outside in the open. The temple around it has been destroyed multiple times, but the Buddha still stands--you can actually go inside it as it's hollow and see how it ...

... at Kamakura. After wondering if I would recognise them when I saw them, I then heard a 'Kate!', 'You've grown' and turned round to see Miyuki and Masaki. I introduced Chris and we all headed off. Miyuki said that Emi would shortly be starting work and that Rimi was currently in her second year at University. As we came out of the station Masaki explained that they would like to take us to a nearby shinto shrine and that they had booked lunch for us at 12 ...

... He just said I look too young to be here in Korea, so I planned on picking him up off the floor when I told him I was thirty.  He somehow managed to stay in his chair.  This kid has got to be about 18...  Now he is telling me his predictions for the final book Harry Potter book.  He thinks there might be two Dumbledores.  That is just his theory.  He keeps saying that..."That is just my theory."  Now he has moved onto Michael Jordan.                  

... it almost looks like a palm frond) that he sweeps in the air in front of him while chanting words. He goes in all 4 directions, then moves down the path to the left of us. At this point, I should say that we are probably about 5 people deep (with another 5-10 people deep behind us), so we glimpse most of this between heads OR with the miracle of my camera, which allows me to tilt the view screen so I can lift my camera far a above my head ...

... le Starbucks qui donne une vue plongeante sur le carrefour. A la grande surprise de la dame (qui parlait un peu français) assise à côté de nous qui se demandait ce qu'on pouvait bien trouver d'original à un spectacle qu'elle voyait quotidiennement. Le petit théâtre de la rue! Et pour finir, retour à l'hôtel pour préparer les valises en vue du d ...

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Today, we were still a little tired, and so got a bit of a late start and decided to have a low key day. We took the hotel shuttle bus to nearby Shinjuku Station, the busiest train station in the world. At first, I didn't know how we would decipher the labyrinthine subway map, but just as I realized that I could match up the Japanese characters to the dual-language version in my guidebook, a very helpful employee came up to assist us and we easily found and cought our train ...

... forests and everywhere, the green of the moss gives an impression of softness that you want to feel for ever. It's not soft like the silk of the kimonos you can feel in shops, it's more of a raw, natural sensation, but it fools you into thinking that one day, we could start to respect nature again, if only everyone could feel the moss in the Japanese hills, just ...

... i didn't go to one like that, so i was in a public=ish one, and met this American, Dwight. Plan A was to sleep til trains, but plan B took over - Tsukuji Fish market!!! They auction off the tuna to restaurants at about 5am, and then you can go enjoy the freshest Sushi in the world. Divine. but very smelly.... (well when your jeans are soaked in fish guts, "yummmmy" doesn't cut it) see photos instead of my 1000 words. much sleep later ...