Being informed by my friend, Ridwan Fahri, that a popular dorama Taiyou no Uta took place once in Enoshima island, this day I decided to visit there. I couldn’t get the feel though because I didn’t watch the dorama when it was popular (and guess if I see it now, it will be too obsolote). But it is okay. It’s not a matter of one place is good or not, especially if you’re given the opportunity to visit another country.

Nah, I couldn’t really talk much about the places, but I think pictures speak more.

Welcome to Enoshima island. This sign appeared just before the tunnel to cross the street to Enoshima bridge. You can see the Torii gate (red gate) will welcome us in the island.

Along the way uphill, there was this shop named “Alami”. At first, I was anxious, whether this shop had relationship with Indonesia or not. I entered the shop, my friend Saiko asked to the shopkeeper, and he said yes, the name of the shop came from Indonesian words. Actually, the shopkeeper once visited Bali to surf. I was surprised that he knew one words, “Tahu? Anda tahu?”.

There were many statues in Enoshima, most of them were Buddhist one. But, this statue interested me most because of the “old lady look”. Look at the band around his (or her) head, combined with the traditional Japanese fan, and the common Japanese way of sitting. Seems so mysterious.

Earthquake is equal to tsunami. In mathematics, that arrow beside the tsunami kanji can be interpreted as “if there is tsunami, there will be refug(ee?)”. I don’t really know if this equation is mathematically true or not, no matter. It’s just that in Japan, there are so many strange and mysterious signs like this.

There were so many shells in the coral reef. It was sticked there, so tourists couldn’t bring one to their home (they can buy them though in some of the shops).

There were so many people. Most of them were parents with their kids, newlyweds, boys with their girls, girls with their boys, old people, everyone. If you’re curious about what some of the people saw, they were waiting for the wave to come. Look at the next picture.

Yes. It was a small tidal wave. Dangerous for your shoes (mine was all wet because I couldn’t properly avoid the water).

As I said before, there were various kinds of people coming to Enoshima beach. For some people, beach is a perfect place to relax your minds, especially because of the no-scenery-but-water view. If you want to empty your minds, watching through the horizon of the sea, seeing nothing except water makes it easier to do some little refreshing from everything. Like him.

Or, of course, you can just enjoy the view of the water with your girls. This couple (maybe) were watching a chopper about one or two kilometres away.

If you like fishing, it’s not recommended to do fishing in the beach right? But, that rule didn’t apply for this old man. With a pair of long boot to prevent water from coming in, equipped with a long fishing rod, he was ready to wait for forever to get one fish. Actually, this man succeeded to grab one garbage as long as I saw. Hope that you get better, Ojichan (grandfather)!

…or you also could paint in the beach. Not a common things to do though, but this man did. Well, maybe the smell of the salt inspired him more to do a little creative imagination to paint.

Some Japanese young couples wrote their name in those locks. Look, you can see the names of the couple (in Kanji) and the date it was written (and locked to the trees). Even the Snoopy was sticked to the branches. I don’t really catch the meaning of it. There must be some philosophy I supposed. At least, nature will always be the witness of their love.

It’s a view from the top of observation tower in Enoshima island.

Sunflower. The good of spring in Japan is you can always find flowers everywhere. Beautiful. Tulips, sunflower, and many other flowers that I don’t know their names, will always fullfill everyone hearts in Spring. Romantic?

Well, stop saying that Japan is a perfect clean country. This scene proves that Japan is a normal country, it can be dirty (although we have to admit that most of the times, Japan is extremely clean everywhere). There were many cans left in the edge of the beach. Not in the main beach though, but in a small corner just after the Alami shop that I said before (we have to enter a narrow road). And, what makes it funnier is….

What did the world-famous Winnie the Pooh do in the beach?