Golden Week cont'd.... Kamakura.

I've been here several times before, but it's worth photo-ing every time. The beautiful hike through a range of heavily forested hills from my aunt and uncle's place takes us down into the ancient city of Kamakura, featuring magnificent temples and shrines.

This boy was deeply into his DS. I think his family made him come on this trip when really, all he wanted to do was stay at home and play DS so he compromised by doing both. He would run ahead of his family, plop himself down and play for a minute while his family caught up with him, and then run ahead again, etc...

Bamboo is awesome.

There's that kid again! Brett and I were a bit startled... "Didn't we just pass him...?"Old, old trees received as gifts from China in the year 7th century.

A father chasing his well protected-child.

Stacks of traditional sake kegs... with Asahi beer cases??