"I could smell the spring outside, dad !! "
My daughter, Akari, came into crying this afternoon.
Today it was cloudy and sometimes sunny, but very warm in Shirahama.
In these days a lot of flowers around Sakuraya started to bloom.
This flower is ...... .
We went to a mountain which a local man has yesterday.
Our purpose was to get Sakura trees.
He has a lot of Sakura trees in his field, and when I was talking with him about Sakura he decided to give me some Sakura trees.
While we were talking about Sakura my son, Yuuki, was playing alone touching the soil.....
Today it was very beautiful day !
I was standing on the balcony of Japanese style room and I could see a blue sea, ships and Izu Oshima island over there.
I wanted to go to the beach to take pictures of beautiful sea but I couldn't do it because of my job.
Oh, my god !!
Shimoda Shirahama Beach: Guest House Pension Sakuraya
This year it is Pension Sakuraya's 20th Anniversary.
We decided to give the original postcard to our guests who stay at our Pension this year.
I had been taking pictures for 6 years since 2000, and total number of my pictures would be more than tens of thousands pieces.
And I selected some pictures of them and made the original postcards.....
It was sunny today too in Shirahama.
The plum trees are fully blooming and the white-eyes came to this tree to get hunny.
We usually can find them two birds, they may be a couple.
This is a good season for them because they can find easily many kinds of flowers in our garden.
I am showing today's Shirahama beach .....
Continue reading "White-eye on the plum tree and today's Shirahama" »
We got an e-mail from our guests who stayed at Sakuraya last October.
(Our guests who sent us e-mail are on the left side in this picture.)
In their e-mail they said that their Izu trip diary has been finished.
They wrote their articles in Chinese but you can see the pictures of Sakuraya at least.
Please check the webpages, DAY3, DAY4 and DAY5.
We had a strong western wind yeseterday, so I was thinking that it would be cold today.
In Japan they had snow in many cities today, but it was very warm here in Shirahama.
Today we had guests, so I went to our garden to pick up the flowers for the decolations with my son.
In our garden the narcissus flowers had already finished in the same stage of last February, but they are full blooming this year. .....
Continue reading "The flower of Narcissus, plum and Sakura" »
Today it was very warm and beautiful too !!
The color of Shirahama beach was too beautiful in these days.
I see this sea every day but I am never bored it like today.
By the way our Sakura tree has just had a flower for the first time this year. .....
Continue reading "Sakura tree has just blossomed in a beautiful day !" »
We can see a many kind of bird in this area, Shirahama in all season.
I found this bird this morning, but I didn't know this bird's name.
So I seached the web to find it.
It is "Isohiyodori" in Japanese.
I show you the bigger picture. ...
Hello, everybody !!
This is a picture of our children, which I took for a new year card of 2007.
I wish you a happy new year !!
Today it was cold here but very beautiful day.
In this season when it is cold the air is very clear.
That's why we could see some ships in the ocean and Izu Oshima island over there from the room of Sakuraya.
Today we had a little wind but it was warm this afternoon.
How did you feel in your place today ?
By the way this is a view from 2nd floor of our Pension.
When I was cleaning up this room I could see Izu Oshima island over there, so I had a break to see it for a while.
As the air is very clear in the winter we can see Izu seven island.
I am going to show the view from same place after 3 hours. ......
How do you like this photo ?
I took this out of entrance of our Pension.
We had sometimes rain today, so that the leaves of aloe had the water drops.
When I saw this tree from a distance I couldn't know that this tree had these water drops, but I was surprised very much and pleased with it.
This color, "Green" gives us a fresh feeling and makes us happy, right ? ......
Today it was very beautiful day too !!
There was no cloud in the blue sky and we could see Izu Oshima island clearly.
Actually I wanted to go to the beach to take a picture but didn't do it because I had clean up the rooms today.
Some of our guests went to the beach to swim and read a book at the balcony outside.
When they came back from the beach I asked them about the water and they said,
"It was not cold and enough to swim !!"
How do you get to Shimoda from Tokyo, by train or by car ?
By train:
The best way would be taking Limited Express Train "Odoriko" by JR.
In this case you don't need to transfer at any station, it means this
train goes to Simoda directly.
And you had better take the reasonable Free Pass "Odoriko Minami Izu
Free Kippu" for this train.
You can get the informations in detail in the following webpage.
http://izu-sakuraya.jp/english/freepass.htm
The timetable for JR:
http://grace.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi
Please fill out the form as follows,
Start Point: Tokyo Destination: Izukyu Shimoda
If you would like to take this pass you had better go to JR station to
book the seats as soon as possible.
The seats on the left side toward Shimoda in this train would be better
for you, because you will be able to get the ocean view from the left
side seats.
By car:
We have 2 ways to get to Shirahama from Tokyo by car.
<1>
Tomei Express way - Atsugi IC - Odawara - Atami - Ito - Kawazu - Shirahama
<2>
Tomei Express way - Numazu IC - Mishima - Shuzenji - Amagi mountain -
Kawazu - Shirahama
It takes about 3 hours, or 3 and half hours from Tokyo, if you don't
have a traffic jam.
Anyway, before coming to Shimoda, please check the map of Sakuraya with
photos in the following webpage and bring it to find our Pension easily.
http://izu-sakuraya.jp/english/mapwithpicures.htm
The busy summer was finished at the end of last month, so Sakuraya is very quiet recently.
This autumn we decided to change Tatami Mats of Japanese style rooms.
We got the new Tatami Mats of Room 101 today.
The new Tatami Mats are really good smell, and we can be relaxed very much.
And as we changed the wall paper last spring this room seems like new room !
By the way, when I was taking pictures of this room my son, Yuuki, came into. .......
Today it was a very beautiful day !
When I was working I found the blue sky, so I went outside and took this picture standing on the roof of Sakuraya's building.
Actually I wanted to go to the beach to take beautiful sea, but I was very busy today.
Our guest who came back from the beach said,
" It was excellent the blue sea under the blue sky !!"
In the summer we can not see a beautiful sky like today, because it is misty even if it is sunny.
By the way the typhoon is coming toward Japan, it was a calm before a storm, I think.
In these days we are preparing many things for this summer !
Today I cleaned up the floor of kitchen to work in a clean place.
I am going to clean up the refregerator tomorrow.
At last the first sunflower in our garden bloomed.
Every year we can see this flower from this season, so when we find it we feel that a summer is coming soon.
By the way I got plums in our garden today.
We have 3 plum trees there but one of them didn't have many plums .......
Now we are in the middle of June, so I started to repair and change the net of window after a long time.
This net window protect from the mosquito getting into the room.
We, Sakuraya, have a lot of these windows, so we do it by ourselves.
Yes, this is a reasonable way.
By the way when we change the nets we usually use one thing.
Do you know it ? ......
Have you ever seen this ?
Do you know what this is ?
This tree is a "Loquat", "Biwa" in Japanese.
We, Pension Sakuraya has this tree in our garden.
When my uncle built out Pension, he found this baby tree in Sakuraya's field. So he moved it a little.
After that this tree grew up bigger and bigger, and now we can eat this fruit every June....
This morning I could see a sunrise after a long time.
I took this picture from the window of Western style room on the 2nd floor at 4:50am.
Do you think that I got up early in this morning ?
No, I didn't get up so early, to tell the truth I didn't go to bed last night until then.
Because my computer doesn't work well in these days, so I started reset-up it last midnight.
And it took a long time to do it and data recovery.
By the way after I took this picture I went to the other room to take it..... .
Last month, May, we had guests of students from the United States, and they gave us the student papaer of their program about Japan.
Today I put the 1st page copied of this paper with their signatures on the wall at the entrance of Sakuraya's building.
And one more thing, a girl of this group gave us a paper with an illustration of "Cat Bus" of the movie "Totoro" and a self portrait(?) of her.
Thank you my friends, we appreciate it.
We really look forward to meeting you someday again !!
Do you know this flower ?
We, Japanese, call it "Himekingyosou". It is "Linaria" in English.
These flowers usually bloom from April to June, but we can see this flower in May in Shirahama every year, because it is very warm here.
By the way you can see our Sakuraya's building behind these flowers, can't you ?
As you know our building is still under construction in this stage .....
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