鎌倉・江ノ島

Kamakura & Enoshima
Golden Week, May, 2018

I’m currently knee-deep in my Tokyo job hunt, so it seems like a good time to jump back in the time machine, this time to the Golden Week holiday of May 2018. I took a day trip with three international student friends of mine (Korean, Taiwanese, French/German, for anyone keeping track) to Kamakura and the neighboring Enoshima, a seaside sightseeing spot due South of Tokyo and Yokohama. Being a national holiday, it was no surprise that the whole area was absolutely packed.

Below is perhaps Kamakura’s most famous site—the Daibutsu, or great Buddha statue.

And taken somewhere below is a rare portrait of me, capturing one of the increasingly frequent moments in my adult life in which I’m somehow simultaneously losing my hair and in need of a haircut:

With plenty of daylight left, we walked to the beach and then South along a coastal road for a few kilometers, stopping for one of the best milkshakes I’ve ever had in my life. So good, in fact, that I forgot to take a picture.

Our destination was Enoshima, a small island connected to the mainland by a bridge. There’s a famous shrine that winds up the mountain and a small village below that caters to tourists.

Oh yeah, Enoshima also has a stunning view of Mt. Fuji. Thanks to the evening’s perfect weather and warm sunset glow, I was able to get this shot just as the light faded. I know it’s already set as the banner image for this post and is displayed elsewhere on this site, but this is truly an all-time top-10 picture in my catalogue, so I’m hoping you’ll allow me to bask in self-congratulation a little longer.

It makes a good desktop image, too—hit me up if you want a copy.