Have you ever seen this?
I took these pictures in Amagi mountain in Izu peninsula in the rain yesterday.
For us Japanese Wasabi is very important to eat Sashimi.
They were just harvesting Wasbi in the field when I went to Amagi mountain yesterday, so I asked them to take pictures of Wasbi.
Have you ever tried this?
These are Sakura Mochi and Sakura Manjuu.
They are Japanese traditional confection.
In this season we can see these sweet at a lot of places in Japan.
Sakura Mochi makes us feel that spring has come!!
If you come to Japan in spring why don't you try this?
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.
I went to Shimoda downtown to watch Fireworks display with my family.
It started at 8:15 PM on time.
We watched these fireworks at the parking lot on Shimoda harbor, but this place was very good to see and to take photos.
Click here to see the photos of the fireworks.
Here is a video on Youtube, which I took the fireworks at the end of the display.
Kids Friendly Guresthouse: Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
This afternoon I went to Shirahama shrine with my family.
It was a first vist of this year for us.
We, Japanese visit shrine at the beginning of new year to pray our health and happiness.
As we are in the new year holiday there were a lot of people there.
Click here to see the picture which I took today.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today my daughter had a game of ping pong at junior high school in Minami Izu town, so I took her with my son.
During her games, as we had 3 hours my son and I drove to southern part of Izu peninsula.
We saw the fisherman left for Ise ebi fishing from small fisherman's port.
They put the lobster net in the sea from now and will pull up them at around 4 or 5 AM tomorrow.
The period of lobster fishing is between September and May in Izu peninsula.
Today we had a lowe tide here in Shimoda.
In this season, when we have a low tide we go to the beach to get crabs.
This is Shirahama Chuo Beach located next to Shirahama Ohama Beach.
The rocks are usually in the water, but they appeared due to the low tide.
We can get crabs there! …….
Today it was very beutiful day here in Shimoda.
And it was getting hotter around noon but we had a strong wind.
Koinobori flags were swimming in the blue sky and they made us very happy.
The weather forcast says it will be sunny tomorrow as well, and will be rainy after that.
My son's Koinobori flags will go to bed until next April.
*Do you know Koinobori? Check it out here!
In Japan, we, Japanese set up "Koinobori", Carp shaped flags, from April to the early month of May.
Koinobori are flown traditionally to celebrate "Children's Day" takes place on May 5th.
We, Japanese decorate Koinobori to pray that sons or grand sons grow up healty and strong.
According to the story of china, when the carp finishes climbing up the waterfall it become a dragon at the dragongate.
So Japanese parents hung Koinobori up in the sky for children rise up like a dragon in the future.
Yesterday my son, Yuuki and I set up Koinobori in our patio together.