Sunday, August 14, 2016

Day 21 of Overseas Trip 2016

I was now familiar with Yokohama area. It is easy to walk from host home to Yokohama JR station. From there, I took normal train to Kamakura.

Surprisingly, Kamakura station is a tiny station.


I am getting ready to walk to Great Buddha statute area. Noticeably, I see black guy walking in front of me towards the same route as me.





There are a lot of houses around Kamakura. One way road is very common around the houses. Tourists and visitors tend to take most of the space of one way road en route to Great Buddha.



It is amazing that Japanese drivers are patient. They don't really honk at them unlike Singaporean counterparts.

Unfortunately, there was setback. The google map is correct but there is no open path to Great Buddha. It took me a while to walk detour, additional 5-10 minutes, with much serious analysis.




At last, I found Great Buddha area. It took me 1 hour to explore that area. Magnificent.

After that, I decided to alter my travel plan from visiting to another shrine/temple at Kamakura to Suntory Musashino Brewery at Tokyo.

It takes one train transfer. One long underpass transfer without gate exit.


It is about 30 mins walk from Fuchuhommachi station.

Without reservation, the counter at Suntory Musashino Brewery gladly welcomed me to take the afternoon tour.


After one hour tour, we were given three cups of any beer choices. I decided to try one by one as per that picture.

Brilliant. I learnt the difference between Suntory beer and Asashi Beer.

I think Asashi beer tour is better than Suntory one.

End of Day 21.






Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 10:57 pm