Last week was Golden week in Japan, which is made up of 4 holidays. Lucky for me, my work also gives me the days off between the holidays, so I had the whole week off. Ayako and I joined another co-worker, Heather and her boyfriend, Hiro on a trip to Chiba prefecture which is on the other side of Tokyo from us (south of Narita airport). We had a long drive out there, passing Mount Fuji on the way:
We bypassed Tokyo by going through a long tunnel under Tokyo bay. It actually only goes 2-thirds of the way and the rest is a bridge. Where you come out of the tunnel, there is a building designed as a ship where you can rest and get something to eat. We stopped and had a good lunch there and took some photos:
Before reaching out destination, we stopped and took a cable car ride to the top of a mountain with a good view:
The mountain used to be used for cutting stone slabs from the mountain, but is not in operation anymore:
We arrived at the cottage where we would spend the next 3 days. It was up on a hill and had a beautiful view:
The cottage had all the latest technologies which were fun to play with, including a Nintendo Wii:
and also had a hot tub which we used once or twice a day:
We had lots of great meals that we made together:
One day, Ayako and I took a walk to the beach. We found a supermarket called Odoya. We took a picture of it because Ayako's family name is Odo and 'ya' means shop in Japanese, so basically Odo's shop:
We also found a nice large natural park which was good for birdwatching. They even had some exotic bird in captivity such as these peacocks:
The park also had a good view of the ocean:
On the last day, we drove to Tokyo where we went shopping at Costco and also dropped Hiro off since he was getting laser eye surgery the next day. Overall, it was a good, relaxing trip.
We bypassed Tokyo by going through a long tunnel under Tokyo bay. It actually only goes 2-thirds of the way and the rest is a bridge. Where you come out of the tunnel, there is a building designed as a ship where you can rest and get something to eat. We stopped and had a good lunch there and took some photos:
Before reaching out destination, we stopped and took a cable car ride to the top of a mountain with a good view:
The mountain used to be used for cutting stone slabs from the mountain, but is not in operation anymore:
We arrived at the cottage where we would spend the next 3 days. It was up on a hill and had a beautiful view:
The cottage had all the latest technologies which were fun to play with, including a Nintendo Wii:
and also had a hot tub which we used once or twice a day:
We had lots of great meals that we made together:
One day, Ayako and I took a walk to the beach. We found a supermarket called Odoya. We took a picture of it because Ayako's family name is Odo and 'ya' means shop in Japanese, so basically Odo's shop:
We also found a nice large natural park which was good for birdwatching. They even had some exotic bird in captivity such as these peacocks:
The park also had a good view of the ocean:
On the last day, we drove to Tokyo where we went shopping at Costco and also dropped Hiro off since he was getting laser eye surgery the next day. Overall, it was a good, relaxing trip.
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