24 hours in enoshima

There have been all sorts of travel discounts for each prefecture, to supposedly help kick start the economy and help out the travel industry.

We wanted to try to travel using the discount, but couldn't get anything on the weekends, so we went to Enoshima on a weekday.

From where we live Enoshima is about an hour by train

The day started out rainy but by the time we arrived, a little after sunset, we could see Mount Fuji’s silhouette.

Satoshi’s been wanting to stay at Iwamotoro since seeing it on a tv show.

Apparently the property used to be a temple and was changed into a ryokan 

The baths are very old but beautiful, especially the one they call Roman Bath that has all sorts of stained glass.

The other bath, which is in a cave, was kind of scary.

The woman that would be serving our dinner mentioned that they did not have any convenience stores on Enoshima or vending machines on their property, but if we wanted to go out to purchase our own alcoholic beverages we could do so before dinner.

So we got these two...BUT they are not made locally...boo

This one, which we had just before bed was made locally.

Dinner was an assortment of things...way.too.much.food

During the evening the winds picked up and it sounded like a typhoon.

The next morning before breakfast, we headed up the hill to Enoshima Shrine

It was fun to see the area without tourists all over the place

Breakfast was an assortment of things too...way.too.much

We then checked out and explored the rest of Enoshima

Enoshima candle, is a lookout tower, which you need to pay 500 yen to go up to see.

Lots of pretty tulips were blooming too.

On a day like Wednesday when the winds were krazy, the tower was kinda of swaying...eep!

We then went to check out the Iwaya Caves...admission 500 yen

This was interesting and at the same time kinda scary too

After climbing the stairs back up, my legs were all jelly!

We tried the Meoto manju from Nakamuraya in business since 1902...the brown one was tsubuan (chunky bean paste) while the white one was koshian (smooth bean paste)

The manju is steamed so it is super soft and also not too sweet...130 yen each

We didn't want lunch quite yet, but did want coffee so we went to Loncafe

And ended up ordering french toast

Satoshi had their 2 berry, while I had their chocolate cinnamon

I thought this wasn't worth paying almost $20 per plate for 1 piece of french toast though...

(stained glass inside of Enoshima Daishi)

Before going back to Fujisawa, we went to check out the Enoden train that runs as a light rail on the streets.

There are krazy people who go up to the train! trying to take videos/pictures of it.

We also bought some wagashi from Ogiya, who has a train car in their store!

Imoyokan and Shonan manju...130 yen each

It was a short trip but we did a lot, walked a lot and ate a lot.

Sorry this post was long and rambly, hope you still enjoyed this adventure as much as we did.

Iwamotoro

2-2-7 Enoshima

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Phone: 0466.26.4121

Nakamuraya

2-5-25 Enoshima

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Phone: 0466.22.4214

Loncafe

2-3-18 Enoshima

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Phone: 0466.28.3636

Ogiya

1-6-7 Katase Kaigan

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Phone: 0466.22.3430

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