On every 2nd Saturday in July a Fireworks Festival "Hanabi Taikai" takes place in Shirahama beach.
This fireworks is held as one of events which tell you a summer is coming.
We are worrying about the weather every year, becaus it is still in a rainny season.
Actually it was rainny last year, but the rain stopped 5 minutes before this festival. It was really amazing.
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In these days we had sunny days like a summer in Shirahama, but it was very humid today.
By the way I took this picture from inside Izukyu train.
This train was going toward Rendaiji station after this tunnel.
When I came from Nagoya to Shimoda station on June 24th, I found it in this train…….
The hydrangea Festival that is held at Shimoda park is taking place this year too.
This is a signboard that I took in front of Shimoda station.
This boad says to travellers about events of Shimoda all the year, and this time it advertises Ajisai (hydrangea) Festival takes place from June 1st to 30th.
I am going to show you today’s hydrangea brossoms in the garden of Sakuraya….
"Let’s go to the long slide this afternoon !"
After checking out of our guest I said so.
My children of course agreed with me, so we went a park in Inatori is called "Fureai no mori" after I finished to clean up the guest room.
In this park there are many kinds of trees, playground equipments and observatory.
Naturally our main purpose was a long slide.
The length of this slide is 50 meters.
From the top of this slide we can see a beautiful view of Inatori town, pacific ocean and Izu seven islands.
As soon as we got there my daughter started to slide down, but it didn’t work well…..
Do you konw what Sekisho is ?
Sekisho is a one of checkpoints where the goverment of Edo era stopped every traveller.
During Black Ship Festival the Railway Company, "Izukyu Line" changes Shimoda station like this picture every year.
And there are many people wearing costumes of Edo era……. .
Today It was rainny day but I went to "Ryosenji Temple" in Shimoda, and I found a lot of flowers blooming.
Now "Jasmine Festival" is taking place in this temple, and about 1,000 trees of Jasmine are blooming on both side of a small path.
From today "Black Ship Festival" is held in Shimoda city, so many foreigners were in the city…..
Tonight, when I went to Shimoda I found that a ship was decorated a lot of beautiful lights at Shimoda harbor.
"Well, Black Ship Festival will take place from tomorrow…. ."
I was going to take a piciture of that ship later, but when I went back to the harbor 2 hours later again, the decorations had already been finished.
So I am going to show a picture that I took 2 years ago…….
How many days couldn’t we get sunshine like today ?
It was good for my son to walk outside today.
I was going to take a picture of my son standing on a chair, and said,
"Cheers ! Yuuki !"
He made his face like a monster.
And his mother was watching him worring.
By the way I went to Mt. Takane in Shirahama today too…….
As I wrote in this weblog I went to Mt. Takane which is highest mountain in Shimoda yesterday.
Then I remember that I was going to make a webpage of Mt. Takane hiking with a guide map.
So I decided to make it today, but I could make only map like this.
Because I wanted to make not only simple map but also map with pictures.
It took long time, so I couldn’t make all webpage today.
The route to the top of Mt. Takane is not difficult, so if you would like to go there please use this map.
This is a most famous and biggest water fall "Joren-no-Taki" in Amagi in Izu peninsula.
In Japan, most of Japanese know this fall, because a Japanese singer "Sayuri Ishikawa" sing about this fall in her song.
That’s why a lot of people want to visit this fall to see it.
This fall is 25 meters high and 7 meters wide and selected one of 100 falls selection in Japan. ……