Taking own favorite pictures (Snapshots near the sea.)

In my recent blogs, I wrote and introduced pictures of temples, shrines, events, the specific something.

During my stay near the sea for few days, I took a lot of pictures.
Those are just my favorite thing.

Watching and picking up those pictures, I tried to decide a common theme.
Thinking for few hours, what I realize was it's too difficult to decide it in one.

Today, I will upload my favorite pictures and little explanation. No theme.
I'm glad if there a picture which make you feel happy or fun.

There are lot's of kites near the beach.

When I was high school student, I some times skipped school and came to the beach.
The kites are so quick like NINJA, they sometimes stole my & my friend's snacks.

I think they are cool and beautiful, don't you think so?

They are really hunters. When you are eating snacks like hamburgers and hot dogs, be careful!!

The guardian dogs were wearing a clothes on their heads.
There maybe some kind of meanings to those clothes, but they seemed just cute to me.

The statue of turtle was in this shrine.

The words said "The God, Dragon King". I didn't see dragon here.

The surfer taking a rest.
Good luck for them to catch a nice wave!

This is all for today.
Thank you for reading.

Good night!

Keywords: 江の島、鎌倉、とんび、鳶

Worship the dragon as a god (The legend of Enoshima island / 江の島, Ryukou-ji temple / 龍口寺)

You will see a lot of dragons near Enoshima island.

At the temples and shrines, there are dragons everywhere.
Statues and reliefs are in the buildings and gates.

A legend will leads you to the reason.
A long time ago, there was a large lake in Kamakura and five-head dragon lived there.
The dragon was so strong, that even the gods can't hold him.

Dragon was harmful to human.
He brought earthquakes, floods, and plagues.
Dragon even kidnapped children and ate them. Human hated the dragon, but couldn't do anything.

In the year 552, black clouds covered the sky, and huge earthquake and tsunami struck Fujisawa and Kamakura. The earthquake continued for ten days, and explosion occur in the ocean.

The earthquake and explosion wasn't done by the dragon.
He was also watching it all.

All the sudden, sunlight and goddess came down between the clouds.
For goddess's beauty, dragon fell in her at once. He soon said her to become wife.
The answer was no. She hated the dragon's evilness.

Dragon promised the goddess that he will become good and protect the human.
They got married.

Dragon kept a promise.

When drought occur, he let the rain fell to the dry ground.
He fought with typhoon and earthquakes. He pushed out the tsunami, too.

Dragon was strong, but he kept promise for long, long time.
A day which he lose all power come.

To protect human and the goddess, he decided to transform himself to a mountain.
He kept the promise even after his death.

The mountain is called Enoshima island now.

The picture I used today is seen at Ryukouji-temple, which near from Enoshima station.
"Ryukouji" means the "temple of Dragon's mouth".

If you climb up the stairs behind the temple, you can see beautiful beach sides.

Maybe dragon was watching the same sight in thousands of years ago.

If you got a chance to come Enoshima island, please remind about the dragon.

Thank you for reading!!
Good night!!

Keywords: 江の島, 龍口寺, 龍

Enoden, the tram runs next to the sea, loved by citizens for long times. (Fujisawa / 藤沢 & Kamakura / 鎌倉)

Not so much trams are in Japan.
As Japan is not so large country, it maybe difficult to make loads wide that car and trams both run at same time.

Enoden, which official name is Enoshima electric railways, connects Fujisawa station and Kamakura station.

It's about 30 minutes trip, but there are lots of places to see.
This railways quite famous because the stations and railway is shown and used in movies and dramas in Japan. Even used in comic book, too. (I have introduced "Slum Dunk".)

This time, I walked from Enoshima station to Kamakura Koukou mae station.
It is about 1.5km, took about an hour swinging to some temples.

This cross load is near the temple called "Ryu Kou ji".
I took some of picture, so I will introduce in later blog.

The train with lots of pictures drawn came!!

I found fish shop near the Koshigoe station.
Not only fresh fish, cooked fishes were in the shop window.

These are fried fishes.

Roasted fishes!!

These seems and absolutely matches rice.
I bought one fry and ate near the beach.

Fish shop seems like this.

Few minutes walk, train comes out next to the beach.

Few minutes walk took me to Kamakura koukou mae station.

Enoden runs really near the people and cars.
I met surfer going back to home. As child sheet was on the bicycle, he must be somebody's father.

The Enoden next to Mercedes.

There are more and more beautiful places in the railroad of Enoden.
I will visit there soon and show it to you again.

Thank you for reading!
Have a nice weekend!

Keywords: 江ノ電, 江の島, 鎌倉, 藤沢

Take a walk along the beach side. (Kugenuma beach side / 鵠沼海岸 and Enoshima Island / 江の島, Fujisawa city / 藤沢)

Japan is still in the rainy season, but we some time can see beautiful sky.

The light breaks clouds and shines on the waves.

Kugenuma seaside is a beach in area called Shonan, and one of the famous spot for surfer.

Even in the winter season, there are a lot of surfers here.

When the summer comes, surfers rather decreases in the daytime. As a lot of tourists comes to Kugenuma, surfers goes to beach in early morning.

The waves are not so big compare to foreign beaches, but everyone seems having fun here.

It's about an hour train ride to here from Tokyo, please visit Enoshima.
You can enjoy cute ? station and fresh sea foods here.

Thank you for reading!!

Good night!

Keywords: 鵠沼, 藤沢, 江の島