Trip
to Izu-Hanto!
- October 13-14 (2002), Shizuoka
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| Izu-hanto is situated eighty kilometers south-west of Tokyo, and is one of Japan's most popular tourist attractions. | The Izu-hanto is actually a peninsula, and the rugged coastline is famous for its beauty. In addition, there are many hot springs around. |
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| These three pictures were taken from a guesthouse in Ito, one of the peninsula's many hot spring resorts. | On the way down from the guesthouse, we walked past some nice bamboo trees. |
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| Ito actually used to be popular among honeymooners, but that was basically before other options became available. | From Ito, we took a boat to Hatsushima Island. It is just a trip of 30 minutes or so, and I was amazed to see flying fish on the way out. |
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| Unfortunately, I was not able to take a picture of the fish. They fly about 100 meters or so before dropping back into the ocean. This is a view from Hatsushima. | The Japanese will consider you an idiot if you ask for hamburgers while at Hatsushima. As the island is famous for fish, that is what you'll eat. |
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| A picture from Hatsushima bay, where a bunch of small restaurants serve all kinds of sea food. If something has been in the sea, the Japanese will eat it. | This picture is kind of neat, I think. The waves were rather big, so a swim did not seem very tempting. |