Today it was a second day of
Shirahama shrine festival.
A lot of people come to this shrine and they
watched the traditional dance performance.
And after that they had a ceremony to tell the
opening of festival to the gods on the seven islands on the pacific
ocean.
Actually it is held on the first day, but they changed the date
because of rain yesterday.
Click the links below to see the pictures on our Facebook albums.
Shirahama shrine which has a long
history of more than 2,400 years has the festival on October 28th, 29th
and 30th.
Today it was an eve of this festival and the young boys and
girls who are second year students in junior high attended the ceremony
which was held in the main shrine.
My second daughter also joined them.
Click here to see the other pictures which I took in this shrine this evening.
Several days ago we got a
postcard from our customers who live in France and stayed at Sakuraya in
last June.
And in this message they said they would sent us a souvenir of Toulous in
France.
As they told us we got a pretty and sweet candy yesterday.
Thank you for
sending your postcard, message and wonderful presents from France!
We
are really appreciated and are very glad that you remember us.
Please come and visit Japan someday again in the future!!
Click here to see the pictures of the postcard, message and sweet candy on our Facebook album.
When I went to the beach there were about 10 people in the sea.
They had big waves today after the typhoon passed away.
They came from Hong Kong.
They have come to Japan for several times, but it was a first time to come
to Izu.
They went to the Japanese restaurant "Nakagawa" in Shimoda to
have dinner, and had the boiled red snapper and the fresh Sashimi.
We had strong wind and heavy rain in the evening, but it became sunny on
the 2nd day.
So they went to the beach and the Shirahama shrine after check-out.
They are very nice and lovely couple, and we could have a good time with
them.
Thank you for staying with us.
２０They came to Japan from England and stayed at Sakuraya for 3
nights.
During their stay we had north wind, so they could not swim but went to
Shimoda city to walk around and Onsen.
After Shimoda they go to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.
We could have a good time with this lovely couple.
Thank you for staying with us.
They came to Japan from Switzerland for the 1st time, and came to Shimoda as the last place of 3 weeks travel in Japan.
During their stay we had strong north wind, so they went to Shimoda city,
Shimoda Park, Tatado beach and Nesugata Yama cable car.
As they didn't have strong wind on the last day they went to the beach
for swimming before check out.
We had a great time with this lovely family.
Vielen Dank für Ihren Aufenthalt!
My son and I went to Togai-hama
Beach for snorkeling near Irozaki cape, the tip of Izu peninsula.
It takes about 40 minutes to get
there from Sakuraya by car.
My son tried snorkeling there for the 1st
time and he was excited at a lot of fishes.
Click here to see the photos which I took today.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
They are from India and live in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa Pref., and came to Shimoda for the 1st time.
They went to Jogasaki suspension bridge on the 1st day and Dogashima on
the 2nd day.
Thank you for staying with us.
My wife and I went to the west
side of Izu peninsula for snorkeling today.
On the west side of Izu there are many scenic points with strange rocks.
This beach has also big rocks on the sea and the caves.
As we had a little big wave and
the water was not so clear today, but I could found many kinds of fish there.