It`s Been A While.

This post comes after a couple of days due to the last hotel having no Internet. However it has been a great couple of days.

On our last day in Kamakura we hired bikes and cycled out to Enoshima Island. It was about an hours journey and i think my calf muscles are finally starting to take shape after all this walking and cycling. This Island itself was incredible. The first thing we did was visit the love shrine. You write your names on a board that you hang on the shrine that hopes to bring your relationship good fortune. Me and Hayley paid for a board as we thought it would be nice, and it was. After we headed to the light house on top of the island. It was nice up there because of all the kestrels that cycle round the tower. Some of these birds literally flew inches past your face, ashamed to admit however that my camera skills failed to capture the birds. Finally on the island we visited the caves. These caves had been formed from hundreds of years of erosion and some of the stories in the caves were especially cool. Dragons seemed to be a running theme of the caves so I enjoyed all the shrines. In the parts of the cave with no lighting your handed a small wooden handle with a candle on the end, so that was pretty explorative I felt. Enoshima was a top highlight for me, if you go to Japan, visit this island.

After we booked a hotel in Hakone. Hakone was a ghost town. Literally nothing there. On the first day we took a bus down to lake Ashi to see the Hakone Shrine. That was pretty neat, ever since I have researched what there is to do in Japan i wanted to go to this lake to see the shrine, and it paid off. The view of the lake and the bordering mountains was breathe taking. The fog that sat atop the mountains clouded Mt. Fuji so we couldn`t quite see it from the lake, but in turn, the fog gave the scenic view a nice touch. On our second and last day in Hakone we went to the Open-Air Museum. A garden fuel of sculptors and hands on stuff to do. I think (not including the Ghibli Museum) that the Open-Air Museum has been my favourite thing so far. Mazes to run in, eggs to climb on and sculptors boating impressive shapes made the unique garden more entertaining than the crap that muesum`s usually show.

Today we took the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) to Nagoya. The train was amazing. We reasearched the journey would take 5hours and 37minutes by normal trains. The Shinkansen made that journey in a mere two hours. It was fast to say the least, but very expensive, and i think that is the first and last time we will ride the train. But in Japan, it needs to be done. Hopefully Nagoya will now deliver some entertainment.

Stay Tuned.
The Adventure Continues...

Arigatou, Sayounara