Isshiki Beach / Zushi, Kanagawa

There's a beach near Tokyo where chosen as “100 of the World's Most Chosen Beaches” on CNN in America.

Access:
From Downtown Tokyo, take the JR Yokosuka Line to Zushi Station.
It takes about an hour from Tokyo Station to Zushi Station.
The train fare is 935yen.

From Zushi Station, go to the Bus Stop 3 and get on a Bus that indicated "逗12葉山行き"

Get off a Bus at Isshiki Kaigan.

The riding time is approximately 15 minutes.
Ask the Bus driver that I want to go to Isshiki Kaigan.

You go this way.

Isshiki Beach!

"Blue Moon" which built of logs open only July and August.
Please spend your time to relax with food, drink and music.
https://www.bluemoonhayama.net/

Imperial family chose this place as their villa around there.
Even though the summer is over, Isshiki beach is a very nice atmosphere without commercialize but nothing. You don't need anything other than just relax.

You can lie down on the grass, I recommend someone those who don't want to lie down on the sand to visit there.

Isshiki beach is the best place not only swimming but also playing at rocky shore or snorkeling.

I don't know the reason why Isshiki beach was chosen as 100 of the World's Most Chosen Beaches.but Feeling free atmosphere in the summer, quiet and relax in the winter and an unique scenary of Japan maybe characteristic compare to wonderful beachs like Hawaii and Australia.

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Chinese Temple / Ochanomizu, Tokyo

Yushima Seido was built as a confucian temple in 1690. After that,Yushima Seido was establish as a educational institution aside from confucianizm.
During the period of feudalism in Japan,there were lots of school like that. so people studied very hard at school. Yushima Seido was the top grade school in Japan.

Why was Japan succeed to change modernization after closed down feudalism? I think that Japanese people in those era studied so hard that literacy rate was high that why Japan was able to catch up with western countries to be modernization.

Access:

Take JR Chuo Line or JR Sobu Line to Ochanomizu Station.
Leave Ochanomizu Station from Hijiribashi Exit.

1.
Cross the signal light and turn your left.

2.
Across the bridge and then go down this stair.

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Main Hall.

Yushima Seido was destroyed by earthquake in 1923 but was rebuilt by reinforced in 1935. The main hall is open to public on saturday , sunday and national holiday. so you should better visit there on weekend.

6.
The statue of Confucius was donated by Taiwan in 1975.

7.
Actual main gate is here.

As I mentioned above, Yushima Seido is strongly effected by China. Therefore Yushima Seido was sometimes used as a  shooting place for a movie and TV drama series.

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