Kamakura.

 This little town is about a forty-five minute train ride outside Tokyo. It is a chill little beach town. I saw surfers riding to the beach in full surfer suits on bike holding there board in one arm. All of Tokyo has a surfer vibe, I guess because it is so close to the ocean. This whole town smelled like tropical flowers.

This is Komachi-Dori, a shopping street leading up to one of the main shrines, Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu.

I saw a lot of cool looking classic cars in this town.

These were outside one of the shrines. I don't really know why.

Almost all the shrines were situated in the back in the forest.

Wishes.

Cool little bar.

This town was very much suburbia like any beach town in the USA. You really don't see things like this in Korea. Actually, houses with garages and basketball nets and such. Most everyone in Korea lives in s high-rise apartment building or a farm.

Red.

My favorite shrine. This thing looked like a cartoon, evil vacuum.

This town was covered with shrines. Literally, there were arrows pointing every which way to something. I even stumbled upon two people praying at this mini shrine literally stuffed into a carved out hole in the rocks.

It says, " May Peace Prevail on Earth." 

I love these watch children sign. So much better then the yellow signs back in the states.

At most shrines you will find a rope to ring a bell. I think it is to tell whom ever the shrine is for that you are there. I could be wrong though.

Another watch children sign.

Very modern house. The wall was ribbed. Design is everywhere in Japan.

Cartoons are everywhere in Japan, too. Don't litter!

Gifts to the gods... eggs and juice packs.

In this cave you wash your money in the natural spring and you are suppose to come into money. I did not wash my money, but later that day I found out the IRS sent me a check for three hundred dollars and they sent me a check. That never happens, so I blame that on the cave.

People buy and light the incense, then place them in the urns. Before you enter the shrine you wave the smoke on to you.

Toriis. This led to a small shrine and then I took the hiking trail behind it to get to the buddah. The trail was kind of dangerous. It was narrow, roots were sticking out everywhere and steep. However, it was more of a direct route that I needed to go towards.

Statues at the entrance to the buddah.

Great Buddah (Daibutso).

You can walk inside, but the line wrapped around the buddah and it was to hot to wait.

On the way home I must have gotten on the wrong train. I definately went towards Tokyo, but in the oppostie direction that I needed to be. I had to back track pretty far. I was almost out of Tokyo, when I was like okay this is wrong. I was literally down to pennies. I had no money in my bank  account because a transfer didn't go through from my savings acoount. (it eventually did that night). I was thinking that I was going to have to walk miles back to the hotel, but luckily I had just enough change. Because of my botched transfer I did miss going to the fish market, which I am very dissapointed about.