On Izu : Day 1 Part 1

Went to Izu on the 19th and the 20th. BOY OH BOY, I had such fun.
went to Izu with Maki and Megumi- my neighbours- and we stayed over in Itou on the night of the 19th. Day one started at 8.45 am. We meet in the 5th floor kitchen and then took a bus to JR takadanobaba station. From Takadanobaba, we took a local yamanote train to shinjuku where we changed lines to the seibushonan line [i think] to Ito. We reached Ito at 11 plus am. [YESH, it was a LOOOOONG ride]

Platform and train at Ito eki From Ito, we took the local line to another station. [Jouge] It was basically a very quiet area. mostly residential [THINK RICH PPLE IN BKT TIMAH] and the main attraction was the nature park's cliff areas, which offered natural scenery, a rope bridge and a light house. There were also some museums outside of the park boundaries. The park was pretty big, so Megumi, Maki and I had fun scaling the rocks and trying not to drop anything or trip. :P We went right to the edge of the cliffs!!! pretty dangerous, I'll grant you, but fun anyway (blows a raspberry)Before getting to the nature park however, we got hungry and had lunch at a resturant. Wow it was located right in the middle of the residential area... the people living there have it good sia.

megumi and maki looking at the menu

Me and my lunch... SAKE-IKURA-DON!!!!!! haha. no surprises there.

lunch was so good, I ate everything.

So did megumimaki posing: peace!

megumi and i

~OK, ON TO THE NATURE PARK~

inside the light house: maki trying to take pics of the scenery.

view from one third of the way up the light house [from then on it was covered in glass... couldn't take a pic]

out of the light house, making our way down to the cliffs, but not withou stopping to take pics along the way...

posing with the plaque

maki and I at the edge of one of the cliffs megumi and I on the rocks

scenery from the from where we were posing.

megumi posing gingerly at the edge of one of the cliffs.

random megumi shot.

haha. random pose. pointing to a spit of land All three of us on the rope bridge

View of the rope bridge. more cliffs on the other side

another view of the rope bridge

Imagine what would happen if you fall down there...

the water is very clear...

this is the spot where i took the above two pics... wonder where i gathered the stupidity to do that...

ok! that's it for Izu day 1 part 1. stay tuned for part 2: teddy bear museum and part 3: ryokan, as well as the highlight of the trip..... [wait for it...]

SAKURA!

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IZU, DAY 2.