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Today, because it was only a few degrees above freezing, I did what any sane person would do -- I went to the beach.
I didn't actually step into the water, though, which is a shame; then I could claim I had been in the Pacific Ocean on both sides. Alas. I guess that gives me a reason to go back this summer.
Today, my goal was to actually ride the Shonan Monorail, which is a suspended monorail. It goes for about 2 miles from Ofuna to Enoshima, and is made of pure awesome (it's really, REALLY neat to be essentially flying over roads and fields and through trees, up hills, etc) and completely impossible to photograph (I guess I could have gotten out of the monorail halfway through the ride and tried to take a picture as the next one came into the station, but people were already looking at me weird enough, plus did I mention it was COLD out?)
So, first I went to Ofuna, which is already some 40 miles from where I live, and took an hour and a half to get to. Then from Ofuna I got on the monorail, and in Enoshima I basically walked to the viewpoint cliff on the other end of the island, climbing up the shrine and going through the other paths. Came down, took the Enoden train to Fujisawa (it's so cute! I'm still in love), and then took JR trains to get home, stopping in Yokohama on the way. (I visited two baseball card shops, one in Fujisawa and one in Yokohama, see.)
This kind of begs a map, so here's a map:
( Map and some more pictures )
I didn't actually step into the water, though, which is a shame; then I could claim I had been in the Pacific Ocean on both sides. Alas. I guess that gives me a reason to go back this summer.
Today, my goal was to actually ride the Shonan Monorail, which is a suspended monorail. It goes for about 2 miles from Ofuna to Enoshima, and is made of pure awesome (it's really, REALLY neat to be essentially flying over roads and fields and through trees, up hills, etc) and completely impossible to photograph (I guess I could have gotten out of the monorail halfway through the ride and tried to take a picture as the next one came into the station, but people were already looking at me weird enough, plus did I mention it was COLD out?)
So, first I went to Ofuna, which is already some 40 miles from where I live, and took an hour and a half to get to. Then from Ofuna I got on the monorail, and in Enoshima I basically walked to the viewpoint cliff on the other end of the island, climbing up the shrine and going through the other paths. Came down, took the Enoden train to Fujisawa (it's so cute! I'm still in love), and then took JR trains to get home, stopping in Yokohama on the way. (I visited two baseball card shops, one in Fujisawa and one in Yokohama, see.)
This kind of begs a map, so here's a map:
( Map and some more pictures )
