"From the eye of the east": Tour to Enoshima

Assalamualaikum & good evening to all reader,

On last Sunday which was on the 1st of July 2012, my friends and I went to Enoshima. We planned to go to Enoshima because one of our friend who lived in Kansai decided to visit us in Tokyo. He, who is currently studying in Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto came to Tokyo during weekend holidays.Thus, there weren't too many days for us to be together, just a short 2 days to have a fun.

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こんにちは、

先週の週末のときに、立命館大学で勉強している友人が東京に来た。遊ぶ時間があまり長くないので、たった一泊僕の家に泊まって、忘れない旅行をすると決めた。わざわざ遠いから来て、ただショッピングとか映画館へ行くとか、あまり意味がないと僕が思うから、ちょっと特別なところ行ったほうがいいと思う。だから僕たち、この近くにある観光地へ行くと決めた。場所は江ノ島だった！

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Well, next is a little description about enoshima island :

Enoshima is a small island, about 4 km in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase - River, which floews into Sagami Bay in Japan. Part of the city of Fujisawa, it is linked to the Katase section of the same city on the mainland by a 600 meter-long bridge. Adjacent to some of the closest beaches to Tokyo and Yokohama, the island and the nearby coast are the hub of a local resort area.

Benzaiten, the goddess of music and entertainment, is enshrined on the island. The island in its entirety is dedicated to the goddess, who is said to have made it rise from the bottom of the sea in sixth century. Enoshima is the center of Shonan, a resort area along the coast of Sagami Bay.

The island is the scene of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei in 1047 AD.

To reach Enoshima, we took Odakyu Line till Sagami-Oono & transfer using Enoshima Line till last station which is Enoshima. To reach to Enoshima main island, there are two ways either by ferry or walking. We decided to take a ferry which costs only 400￥ but unfortunately, the ferry service was already closed. They operate till 4 in the evening (local time) while we arrived at 4.30 evening.

Since there were no other choices mode of transportation, we brave ourselves by walking from the train station to enoshima main island along the bridge which took us about half an hour. Despite of raining drizzly, we had so much fun talking with each other about many things.