From Yamanashi, Anna, Mike and I travelled onwards to Yokohama where my Dad's little sister's family doth dwell. FUN TIMES! The first night we got there, my cousins (Hidemi and Jun) were both there as well as Jun's wife, Rieko who bears a striking resemblence to my mother. Anyways, it was so great to see the whole family there together, I hadn't seen Jun or Hidemi for a long time (Eisuke and Eiko came to visit me in November). Good food, lots of pets, lots of English (they were all quite able when they really put their minds to it) and lots of laughs.
ほんとに たのしかった！ありがとうございました！
My cousin Hidemi and me.
The Yokohama family. Hidemi (holding Harry), Jun (holding Chatta), me, Rieko (Jun's wife, holding their cat, Giovanni), Hidemi's friend Takahashi, Anna and Mike, and Eiko (my dad's youngest sister).
We went for a 2.5 hour hike over a range of hills into the ancient city of Kamakura. GLORIOUS hike through bamboo, spruce, cedar trees... this is a giant graveyard ("hakaishi") that we saw on our way.
My cousin Taiki (from my Mom's side) met up with us for this little walk since he couldn't make it to our grandparent's place. Good guy.
Amazing old temples in abundance at Kamakura. Enormous wooden structures, not a single nail in any of them.
The ceiling of one particular temple.
We took a jaunt into Tokyo for a day. Exhausting. This is a picture Mike took of the train routes at Shibuya (I think) train station in Tokyo. Finding my way around the public transport system was probably the only thing that I had any anxiety about when preparing for my time in Japan, oddly. Turns out it's really not that bad, and really well organized, so all you gotta do is ask someone if you're lost.
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