Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 226 Enoshima

Taking the subway to Yoyogi Uehara Station, the three of Naruse returned to the ground and transferred to the Odakyu Line train.

Squeezing into the carriage, Naruse dragged the two girls and snatched the seat narrowly.

"It's a good thing there are seats...otherwise I might have to stand for more than an hour."

Hai Xing held the hand that he pinched all the way, blushed a little, and when he looked over, he opened his mouth to cover up:

"Why are there so many people in the morning?"

"Like us, they all went to Kamakura."

Naruse quickly looked away, "If you come to Tokyo but don't go to Kamakura, it means you haven't been to Tokyo... There seems to be a saying like this."

"Hey, is Kamakura so important to Tokyo tourism?"

"There was a time when Kamakura meant a lot to Japan as a whole."

"...You don't mean to talk about the Kamakura Shogunate, it's so boring."

"Hehehe..."

Between the shaking, the tram quickly passed two stops.

"Shimokitazawa—Shimokitazawa, here—"

Sure enough, as Naruse said, more and more people got on the bus.

The tram stopped at the platform, Haixing turned to look out the window.

"Shimokitazawa..."

Naruse looked up from the phone, "Does Starfish know this place?"

"Ah, no... just a while ago, it seems that there is a popular band here on Twitter."

"What band?"

"A high school girl rock band... I don't remember."

Naruse didn't pay attention either, and looked down at the vibrating phone again.

Yiye: I feel like vomiting...

"..."

Playing with her mobile phone until she got motion sickness really convinced her.

Naruse: Stop playing.

Accompanied by a rush of electric bells, the tram quickly restarted.

After more than an hour, the tram finally arrived at Fujisawa, where the three of them changed to the Enoshima Line.

Five or six minutes later, the tram stopped at Katase Enoshima Station, and Naruse pulled the two of them off here.

Walking out of the station, Hai Xing looked back.

"The shape of this station is quite interesting..."

After she finished taking photos with Shangzi, Naruse looked at the map and said, "Let's go to Enoshima first, and then come back and stroll around the Shonan coast."

"Okay."

After leaving the station, Naruse led the way, and within a short distance, he could already see the sea.

"The sea."

"Well, the sea."

"It's the sea."

The three calmly looked at the sea that they hadn't seen for a long time.

Hai Xing's head was unexpectedly flexible at this time, "Is it because it's not summer yet, and I can't get excited when I see the sea."

Naruse looked at her, and Naoko next to her smiled.

"maybe."

He pointed to the green island on the sea ahead, "That's Enoshima."

The two were full of expectations, "Let's go there quickly."

Along the Benten Bridge, the three of them walked towards Enoshima.

They didn't feel anything when looking at the sea, but when they walked up the Benten Bridge and actually came to the surface of the sea, they still involuntarily lay down on the side of the bridge together and stared at the swaying waves below for a long time.

"This season, the sea water is still very cold."

"Ah."

Starfish looked over: "When it's summer..."

"Let's talk about summer in summer."

"Oh."

Going forward and stepping on Enoshima from Benten Bridge, it is considered that they have truly arrived at their first destination of the day.

Looking all the way along the shopping street in front of him, Naruse turned his head, only to find that Shangzi and Haixing were photographing the bridge when they came.

"Don't take pictures as soon as you come here..."

Click!Click!
The three walked forward for a while, and soon came to the bronze torii gate of Jiangdao Shrine.

"Wow, this torii is so rusty..."

"Almost 200 years."

The Bronze Torii Gate is not only the first stop to enter Enoshima Shrine, but also the entrance to Benzaiten Shopping Street.

After the torii is a slope, and the narrow path is crowded with shops selling various Enoshima specialties.

Following the crowd, the three casually bought some local specialty snacks, and walked around while eating.

"Ah, there's a post office here, too."

"Well, you can send postcards here, do you want to write?"

"Can I write it?"

Morimi and Hikari Takikawa did not come during this trip to Tokyo, and all three chose to write postcards to them.

"I don't know how Ichiba and Hikari would feel when they received three postcards at the same time..."

"Let's talk later."

After writing the postcard and stuffing it into the mailbox, the three of them continued to stroll forward.

When you come out of the shopping street, you will see the large vermilion torii gate of Enoshima Shrine in front of you.

After taking a few photos and passing through the torii gate, Hai Xing looked at the Ruixin Gate on the stairs, turned his head and said, "Let's go."

"Yeah." Naruse nodded, then walked aside.

"Hey, don't you go up from here..."

"That's where you go up. There's an elevator over here."

"Ah? Do you need an elevator to go up... It's not that high, is it?" Hai Xing asked in surprise.

Shangzi looked up, but still followed.

"An escalator?"

"Ah."

"It's so convenient..."

She looked at the giant navigation map standing beside her again.

"'20 minutes on foot, 5 minutes on the escalator'... It turns out that it takes so long to climb up."

"It's still pretty big up there," Naruse said.

Shangzi suddenly narrowed his eyes.

"360 yen for adults... Is there a fee for the elevator?"

"……Um."

Naruse couldn't move.

"..."

He turned his head and looked at Shangzi who was holding him back: "Believe me, this shrine doesn't look very high, and it's still very laborious to climb up."

"Shouldn't we be shopping everywhere when we come out to play, and we're not in a hurry."

"no……"

"Let's go." She pulled him back to the front of the stairs again.

"Do you still want to go up?" Hai Xing looked at the two people who came back and said.

"Yes." Shangzi smiled at her, "Go up."

The two walked up the stairs, and Naruse had no choice but to follow.

Climb up the stairs, pass through the Ruixin Gate, and pay homage to the Benzaiten boy statue, followed by four steps connected together.

"..."

Climbing up in one breath, Shangzi's chest kept rising and falling, and she was a little panting, but she still smiled when she looked at the shrine at the end of the stairs.

"Isn't it here?"

Naruse sighed, "Where did we go, half of it is not there yet."

"Eh……"

The palace halfway up the mountain is the Hetsu Palace of Enoshima Shrine. The three of them paid homage here, walked around, and rested by the way.

Here is enshrined Miaoyin Benzaiten, one of Japan's three major Benzaitians. Judging from the introductory text next to it, this goddess is in charge of wealth, wisdom, beauty and music.

The three of them bowed to each other, but Hai Xing was very sincere.

"Please give me more wealth and wisdom, and then I can just keep my current beauty... Ah, the talent in music is unnecessary."

"...If you don't say the last sentence, maybe the goddess will talk to you. Guess what the 'Miaoyin' in her name means?"

Inside Enoshima Shrine, there are many small other shrines. For example, there is a Yasaka Shrine on the side of the road. The three of them also visited when they walked by.

Outside the shrine, there was a shrine maiden who set up a stall, selling emas that were made by a good match, and they cost [-] yen a piece.

"The money to buy two emas is almost enough for three people to take the elevator up."

"..."

Naoko glanced at Naruse, walked around the stall selling ema and came back.

Then go forward, there are two downward steps.

The lampposts on the side of the road guide the direction. In front is Nakatsu Palace, and then up are Okutsu Palace and Dragon Palace.

The escalators going up and down the mountain are also divided into stages, and the starting point of the second section is on the road leading to Nakatsu Palace, and Shangzi walked by without squinting.

"Go over there and have a look."

Before the next upward step, there is a viewing platform next to it.

Standing on the edge of the platform, you can overlook the bay below the mountain and the faint Shonan coast opposite.

The three of them rested on the platform for a while, then continued to go up, first to visit Nakatsu Palace and Okutsu Palace, and finally came to Dragon Palace.

"..."

Looking at the "Dragon Palace" built of stones in front of him, and the "Dragon Palace Great God" lying on top, Hai Xing hesitated to speak, but swallowed the words that might be condemned by God.

After leaving the Dragon Palace, they walked a long circle, passed through Kunming Square and Boryeong Square, and the three of them came to the observation lampstand in Enoshima.

Above is a huge platform, and through the spiral stairs to the higher lighthouse, you can overlook the scenery of the whole island.

The sea breeze blows, and the sun is warm and warm.

Standing on the highest point of the whole island, looking at the roads and buildings hidden in the bushes below, Shangzi let out a soft breath.

"It doesn't look like a big place, and it's quite tiring to walk around..."

Naruse put his hands on his eyes and looked into the distance, "Take the elevator down later, otherwise you won't have the strength to go to other places."

She puffed her lips, but no longer objected.

"Ok."

Starfish looked at the opposite shore of Shonan, but felt that the lighthouse under her feet was still a bit short.

"I can't see very far from here... It would be great if it was half the height of the sky tree."

"Where can such a large building be built on this kind of island?"

"Can't you?"

"Even if it's built, it won't be able to stand stably in such a windy and turbulent environment... Besides, there are already enough high-rise observatories in Tokyo."

"Ok."

Turning around in the lampstand, looking at the whole island from a bird's-eye view, and taking some photos, the three of them got off the lampstand and took the escalator down the mountain.

The escalator goes down slowly, and there are electronic screens on both sides, so it will not be boring.

"The power of money..."

"No, it's the power of modern technology."

A few minutes later, Naruse returned to the vermilion torii gate at the bottom of the mountain, looked back at the Wangzuishin Gate, and then looked at the shopping street below.

"Let's go, take the Jiang Zhidian."

(End of this chapter)