MONDAY - KAMAKURA 
ENOSHIMA

I thought this sort of looked like the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale.

Fujisawa, the French Riviera of Japan.
It was a nice day for the most part, although the rain looked like it was approaching in the late afternoon.
There is Enoshima Island.
The sand on the beach was almost black. But I suppose the volcanoes will give you that.
Beware of hawks! Boy, they aren't lying. They're everywhere.
A lot of the stuff on Enoshima is on a hill.
The torii gate at the entrance to the shrines on the hill.
Snow White and the Five Dwarfs and the Dragon.
There was once a fellow called Kengyo Sugiyama who was born in 1610. He lost his sight when he was a child. He learned acupuncture under famous acupuncturists but he was a bit too clumsy to properly acquire the technique. He confined himself in Iwaya Cave and went on a fast of 21 days. On the last day of his fast, he tripped over this stone and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found a bamboo rod with a pine needle inside. It inspired his acupuncture technique. He cured the 5th Edo period Shogun, Thunayoshi Tokugawa with the technique and ascended to a high position, Kanto-So-Kengyo. It is said that if you find something around this stone, you will have good luck, so this stone is called Fukuishi or Lucky Stone.

If you ask me, if it was really a lucky stone, he would have regained his sight.
That's the Enoshima-jinja Hetsunomiya shrine.
And there's another one. This one is Yasaka-jinja.
A look from the cliffs toward Sagami Bay.
Enoshima-jinja Nakatsunomiya shrine.
This, of course, is the lesser known shrine to Frosty the Snowman.
This sign tells you what to do in case of an earthquake and the subsequent tsunami.
At the far end of the island is the Enoshima Iwaya Cave. It's where that lucky Kengyo Sugiyama went to fast.
This actually resembles the artificial caves in the Journey to the Center of the Earth attraction at DisneySea.
Legend has it that this cave reaches all the way to Mount Fuji. It doesn't.
A line-up of little statues in the cave.
Surely they don't just store their old statuary back in these caves.
There is another legend that a dragon lives in the cave. It doesn't, but this plastic replica sure is convincing, huh?
This way to the egress.
More hawks.
The ones in the sky didn't look quite like this one.
There is no English on this sign, but I can probably make out that it is saying that the caves were somehow formed by the ocean.
The rocky end of the island.
Just an island cat doing a little gardening.
There were fish jumping out of the water. This is the best photo I got. He's really got some elevation.
When in Japan, eat the Italian food.

TO TOKYO