This morning I woke up at 6 am, I made a hearty breakfast, I have prepared a thermos of tea (genmaicha), I took the backpack ready since last night and I left, destination Kamakura.
On the Tokyo area the weather is nice, but in the direction Fuji-san (this time I have the camera handy!), is completely covered.
Among metro, train, bus, arriving at the beginning of the path I want to do, what I saw last time, around 9. I change my shoes and away you walk today!
The path from the beginning is promising, a little 'muddy because of rain in recent days, but even if it is not as high altitude, is very funny. 
How desperate are always at the beginning: "Uaaa are fat, are out of shape, how can I go on the Japanese Alps so ..." and so on, but walking pass it. 
Here I am a bit 'confused and I miss a turn, I made a detour (Let's call it that) about forty minutes. The fact is that there is a maze of small paths, which start from the villages down the valley, and in fact is the locals who come to walk or jog with your dog. Anyway I have happily gone in the opposite direction, because I had to take the path that seemed too "urbanized" than what I had traveled so far. For urbanized
mean that when I finally took the right road (the sign was slyly after the intersection.-___-Probably the most "tourists" walking the path in the opposite, in fact I met several people), I coasted for a while a tennis golf on the mega parking lot. > __ <
Luckily I met a tour of elementary school children that made me laugh.
And after a while the trail is back to being a trail.
After a couple of hours walking in the woods and among rocks (without considering the deviation ...) , The view opens up and there Kamakura and the sea. 
Shortly after arriving on the Kenchoji. The path would be over, but there are signs and I see that one of the little paths that branch out from there to the temple next door.
go down the stairs a moment to look, but we are on the time of lunch and the sun is strong, we were better off in the woods, so I decide to go back and follow that road I've seen. 
This time I'm really at the end. The sign that's on this drain is the same affect on small stone pillars that I found as a trail along the way up to here (that's how I realized that I was wrong ...). 
there to do a section along the road of the country ... 
... and there I came to Meigetsu -in. 
On the bridge leading to the entrance there is this statue of the white rabbit. I feel a bit 'like I was rewarded for all that I walked to get here. 
take advantage of this bathroom hidden among the flowers to change my shirt (which, after a morning's walk is quite indecent ...) and give me a refresher. 
And then calmly visit this garden, which is beautiful. 
La pietra legata così significa che di qui non si può passare. 
Le piante sulla collinetta che sale verso il tempio sono tutte ortensie, le primissime cominciano ora ad aprire i fiori. Tra un paio di settimane deve essere meraviglioso... 
Mi piace molto questo posto. Non è tanto grande ma è garbato, e c'è un poco di tutto... 
I bambù. 
I fiori all'ingresso. 
Il giardino di pietre. 
The caves. 
A well-functioning yet. 
And here I have finished my camera battery. And when I changed (because I've always behind the spare, eh ...), I was surprised that I forgot to recharge it. So cleverly.
And then the photos end up here.
Anyway, I was too good mood to blame for that, I certainly did not spoil the day.
I enjoyed a little more 'the peaceful atmosphere of this place, I took tea in the room with the round window with overlooking a pond and a meadow of purple iris flowers, and then I put back on the road.
There was another temple to a half mile on the right (later tonight Kayoko told me that what is seen ... absolutely -____-) , but I more or less straight, there is another trekking route that runs from there to the Daibutsu, and since that time and today is the weather is perfect (in June, we expect the rainy season), I decided to take advantage and do that too.
I stop before the trail to visit JochiJi , is very small and quiet, is a Zen temple and therefore has a garden which seems to leave himself as like to me, there are pink flowers in the tall grass and there is a huge cypress.
Since I can not take pictures, do a quick drawing .
And then I take the path to the Daibutsu. After a while
'meeting an American girl who makes my own way. Or rather, she asks me if I know the path. Because they are all focused on the Japanese, I am a huge effort to pull out some of the phrases' in sensible English, so we speak in Japanese, she has lived here for three years, but there was already a child, and knows the language well. In practice, I have asked this question because there is a point a little 'ahead where the trail splits and is not reported good (dejà-vu. -____-), .. and so he is worried, so he takes me up to it, even though his destination was a little earlier, one of the temples along the road.
gives me directions on how to continue and we part, it was really nice.
The trail is all among the cypress trees, their roots are on the way down the stairs.
I'm not sure, but I think to do this route I wanted to be there an hour to an hour and a half. 
I stop to greet the Daibutsu, and then I go back to the station Hase, I take the little train that runs along the sea to return home. E 'was a beautiful day, and even if I start to feel a little tired, I feel great.
I will return to these places again before returning home, I still have something to do ...
And who knows maybe it does not happen to me to see the hydrangeas bloom!
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