Kamakura trip

Day 3: Kamakura trip

We wake up at 8 am and go to Shinjuku station to catch a train. Besides we had to meet Elizabeth, a Mexican girl, from Couchsurfing, who is also traveling around Japan and also wanted to visit Kamakura this day.

Our Japan Rail pass is valid starting from 2^nd of November. But a great idea passed through our head – what if we just show the pass at the metro station, since the guy in metro just sitting inside his small office looking at people passing by, he most likely won’t try to check the pass carefully. So we tried…so it worked! And It worked for 2 days since then, trip to Kamakura was a free one for us so far :-D.

Kamakura was full of nice temples and shrines, green and pretty. We walked around while Naoki was explaining us some details Kamakura history and temples. After cultural part we needed to taste some local food and Naoki said he knew a good Okonomiyaki place nearby.

Okonomiyaki is type of Japanese food, made more o less like egg omelet mixed with cabbage, seafood or meat, which you prepare by yourself on the pan which is incorporated in the table in the restaurant. This place had an offer, for 1,500 yen (11 Euro) you can eat as much okonomiyaki as you can during 2,3 hours. Especially for Juli they brought okonomiyaki without any vegetables (cabbage, onion etc), since he doesn’t eat “green stuff”, and Naoki was very surprised for the first time to see this special way to cook non vegetable okonomiyaki :-D After 2 hours of eating we got out, and I guess we will not eat eggs for at least 1 week haha

Last stop was an impressive Big Buda statue, probably the most impressive thing we saw in Kamakura that day. We took the train back to Tokyo, used our non valid Japan rail pass again and met Naho and Diego at Shinjuku station.

Shinjuku met us again with loads of people and total chaos, since it was a peak hour, everybody was going home from work, so station was full of “robots” and “hot Lolitas” :-D

We met Naho and Diego and went for a beer outside the station. In traditional Japanese restaurants they ask you to take off the shoes so be sure you have clean socks haha

Finally we got to Heath and Jim place, guys arrive around 23.00 with a “happy attitude” after the drinks they had with their friends. We bought some beers and they had some wine, so once again we keep talking and laughing till 2 am…NO SLEEP AGAIN!!! We need to wake up tomorrow at 7 am, since we go with Naho and Diego by car to see Mount Fuji. Why it’s necessary to wake up so early? Because this very night is a Halloween night, and we need to go party whole night. So basically, we go to sleep at 3 am, then wake up at 7 am and plan to come back home, without sleep at around 6 am next day. Conclusion? NO SLEEP AGAIN!!! :-D