Saturday, May 21, 2016

Enoshima and Kamakura

During my cousin's visit to Japan we got to visit many neat places. He had a friend who lived in Fujisawa, so she showed us around some of the local attractions. The first place that we went was Kamakura. Fujisawa is shown on the map below. Above and below are picture of a temple from Kamakura.

We saw many interesting things while we were here including a massive Buddha statue.

While we were here we bought day passes for the Endoshima Railway. There are many train systems in Japan that are separate from the really big JR networks. Aizuwakamatsu even has one: the Aizu Tetsudo. When we went on this train my cousin's friend mentioned that it was very popular with train lovers in Japan.

At the end of the day we made it to the island of Enoshima. To get there we took a boat. Here me and my cousin are enjoying the boat.

On the island we went to the top of an observation tower and could see far along the shore.