Ose-zaki

For one afternoon, Fusako and two of her friends took me to Ose-zaki, or Cape Ose, at the Southern end of Numazu.  It was really pretty!  Here are some of the pictures I took.

This is a shot from the beach, of Ose-zaki.  We followed the sidewalk through the shrine gate there (a toori) and walked around the cape.

This is farther away from the cape, on the beach, where there were TONS of people scuba diving!  It was mid-October, too--but the weather was really nice that day!

This is me with Fusako (left) and Shinozawa-san outside of the Yasudaya Ryokan (tradtional Japanese hotel).  Apparently a famous author wrote some novels here, that's what the stone says behind us.

Through the toori gate we wandered around a small forest.  There were a lot of juniper trees there--some are hundreds of years old.  We also stopped a bit at a pond.  This is Kami-ike--the Divine Pond.  We fed the 'divine' carp that call it home.

A pretty shot of one of the paths we wandered down.  The sky was pretty cruddy that day, so we couldn't see Fuji--but the weather was nice. (:  The forest was nice and cool, and very pretty of course.

Here is a shot of the scuba-ers' beach from the cape.  Pretty, huh?  Too bad it was so foggy.  But it was kind of a nice effect.  That's sasaki grass in the foreground--a Japanese symbol of autumn.  It grows all over; on the sides of the roads, along rice paddies, and on Cape Ose. (:

And what kind of scenic spot would Ose be without a mile-high staircase to a shrine?  Here it is.  Tanaka-san and I were the only ones genki enough to brave the stairs to see the shrine.

You know what to do, angry bison!

Want to see where I ate lunch that day?