Ishiki Beach

Chie and I went to pay a visit at the emperor’s summer house, but he was not home 😉 So we stayed outside at the beach instead. There we met a Japanese couple that we see at Yasaka some times (he is working there).

We said hello and sat under a parasol not far away from them. Chie and I had a nice time reading and relaxing. I spent quite some time sleeping too.

When it was time to leave we tried to get a shower, but it was 1000 Yen for each person. A bit steep we thought, and went home salty and sandy instead.

We mingled quite well with the crowd on the bus and trains since many were on their way home from the beaches around Kamakura area. One family seemed to have just gotten out of the water as their clothes were still dripping water and they still wore their floating gears.

Once home we just got into the shower and then we went to Yasaka for dinner. And there they were a gain. The couple from the beach 🙂

Ishiki Beach

Blue sky in the morning when we woke up. So our plan to go to the beach was implemented (Sorry for the tech talk… It means we had a plan to go and today we went 🙂 ).

It was 1 hour and 30 minutes train and bus rides to get to Ishiki beach. The beach here is black sand so it gets quite hot in the sun. But today it was a nice breeze making it perfect.


Ishiki beach

We lay down just in front of the Emperor’s summer house. But he came out and told us he didn’t mind… Or maybe he did not 😉


Chie at Ishiki beach Chie and Johan at Ishiki beach

It was a really great day at the beach. At around 4 pm we went back home. The bus stop just after we entered the bus it was a school class or something entering. It filled the bus with kids about 12 years old. All having a box of sea urchin, small crabs, and so on, that they had caught during the day.

Evil mind as Chie and I have we enjoyed the bus ride even more after the kids entered. Why? Well now we could see the surprised faces of all the people wanting to go home after a day at the beach but the bus just passed without even stopping at their bus stop 😉