Don’t you think we have a lot of snow this year?
Last week we had snow in Izu peninsula, but there was no snow in Shimoda.
So I was thinking to take my children to Amagi mountain play with snow, and I went there with my daughter, my son and my daughter’s friend after I finished to clean the guest rooms…..
Yesterday my friend asked me,
"How is the blooming of Sakura on Mt. Takane? Because I have my own Sakura there."
As I was not able to answer him I decided to go this mountain to check Sakura blossoms with my son today. (Actually there are our three sakura trees there too!)
When we got off our car we started to walk.
This is a small place to see Izu seven island on the way to the top of mountain…..
Today, as my wife had to wok her job my son, Yuuki and I went to the amusement park "Izu Bio Park" in Inatori town.
On the way to Inatori I took this picture as usual.
This is Shirahama Chuou Beach near Shimoda Prince Hotel.
I could see Izu Oshima island clearly today.
From Shirahama it takes about 25 mintues by car to Bio Park….
When I went to Shimoda for shopping with my son, I went to "Shimoda Park" to check the blooming of Hydrangea, "Ajisai" in Japanese.
The flowers has just started to bloom, but we could see some flowers there.
They says that there are 3 million flowers of Hydragea in this park, and we can walk in a lot of flowers with a view of Shimoda town and harbor at the peak of blooming season.
Today I went to Shuzenji for my job, and came back to Shimoda through Western side of Izu Peninsula.
This is Koganezaki-cape in Ugusu town. It takes 60 minutes by car from Shimoda.
There are a lot of Sakura trees in a small garden and they were blooming 50 or 60% in this stage.
After that, I went to Matsuzaki to see another Sakura blossoms….
Today my wife had to do her job, so I had to be a baby sitter of my son, Yuuki.
I was thinking where we go.
As we had a strong wind I thought that we might be able to see Mt. Fuji from the west side of Izu peninsula today.
I reseached it in the web camera site ….. Bingo !!
So I desided to go to see Mt. Fuji with my son !!
When I was driving on the way of West Izu I could see Mt. Fuji, I was very excited !!
The Aloe’s Festival started to take place in Shirahama yesterday.
The blooming of Aloe’s flower is a little earlier than usual.
In this stage 70 or 80 % are bloomed.
The peak of blooming of these flowers will be in new year holidays, I guess.
I went to Shimoda train station today.
I have ever been there a lot of times, but I have never show this.
This is Foot Spa in front of Shimoda station building.
This spa is free of charge and opened for 24 hours.
The capacity is about 4 people, so it is not big, I think.
If you go to Shimoda by train please try it once.
Besides I show you the view from this spa. …..
Today we, the members of Shirahama Tourist association cleaned up the field of Aloe at Itado area in Shirahama.
Because we have "Aloe Festival " in this area from December 9th.
To clean up this field we got into the Aloe trees and cut the weeds.
It was cloudy today but it became a little hot for us cleaning up this area…..
Today it was beautiful day, so I went to Nishi Izu with my son, Yuuki.
After 1 hours driving we could see the ocean and drove for 5 minutes we got to "Sawada Koen (Open-Air Spa)"
in Dogashima.
When we arrived there was nobody in a parking lot and I found a sign at the reception of this Onsen.
"Closed on every Tuesday" it said.
But I was not going to take a bath there because my son had a little cold today.
After parking my car we went up the steep steps to get to Onsen on the top of hill.
"Hey Yuuki, watch your step !!" …..