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| Very cute train |
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| First find your island |
Enoshima is a tiny island in Japan, near Kamakura. It is only 4 Km around the edge but there is only a road some of the way and one into the centre and up through a shrine (tons of shrines here, of course) to an observation tower where you might see Mount Fuji on a clear day. It's not a clear day so we didn't try that but did find a nearby convenience store which rented bikes incredibly cheaply.
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| Then find a bike |
We took the cute local electric train to Enoshima station and picked up two bikes from this valiant lady who spoke little English and whose machine refused to do the necessary booking in English but we managed fine in the end.
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| at a convenience store |
We cycled over the bridge to the island, among the tourists on the pedestrian way. Cyclists and pedestrians share the same paths here and tolerate each other in a way that is amazing to us who are used to open warfare between the two tribes.
There is not much cycle-able (or drive-able) road here but we cycled what there was and then went onto the sea wall where we had fun cycling over and back. We came across a do-it-yourself reflexology space - there were spaces of different kinds of bumps on the path and a notice showing you what to do. See pics below.
After our lovely cycle we took the bikes out along the mainland coast for a couple of hours and enjoyed seeing Enoshima on a holiday. There was a major volunteer beach clean-up happening and lots of surfing, either training or having fun. People here bike their surfaceboards to the beach - see final pic.
What a lovely morning! Many thanks to Debbie for her support and enthusiasm.
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| Reflexology area |
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| Reflexology instructions |
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| Getting to the beach, Japanese style |
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