Japan Trip 2009 - Day 6 - Part 1

As usual, we woke up early in the morning. After breakfast, we went to the station Hachinohe and took JR train to Same Station 鮫駅. There, our destination is a temple on a hill side that is facing the ocean.Same Station 鮫駅 is an old station. The town there is pretty small. Even the station is also small. And the trains running that line are old, but pretty. This town gave us the plain and simplicity feeling of Japanese. There are not much people on the street. If there were people on the street, most probably are elder people. The tranquility there really makes you comfortable. This is not a place for fun, but it is worth to visit there.

Getting out of the small station. We had to walk along the sea side for around 20-30 minutes to the temple. While walking across the town, we walked in a relaxing mood. Hanging around some shops. We went into a cake shop that sells some cake snack. Quite a traditional snack in Japan. The keeper is an old lady. Very friendly. We bought 2 pieces to try. Woo, awesome. I tried to take photo with the kind lady but she refused politely. She is a traditional Japanese old lady, very kind and gentle and with smile all the time.

In the town, there could see those cross junctions of train rails and pavements that you would usually seen and heard inside some cartoons. (e.g. my favorite one 秒速5厘米) . When the alert sound triggered and the fence lowering down, it gave us the feeling so familiar. We stopped at the junction and waited for the train to pass. It is very impressive to us, especially the scene and the sound that we could really experience.
There are also some old shops. Some are handling bamboos, some are repairing ships. Actually, that town should be a fishing port previously. The reason is that we could see many fishing boat there. And along the streets, some shops would put a statue of fish, or other kinds of sea animals outside the shop. That's just what we figure out, but without too much evidence to support. Anyway, we walked to the end of the road along the sea side and reached the temple 蕪嶋神社.

That day was sunny, and not a specific season for worshiping. Thus, not much people there. We walked up the staircases to the temple at the top of the hill directly. Actually, the temple was not very interesting to me. But the scene around the temple is magnificent. An almost 270 degree sea view. Really cool. You can smell the ocean from the onshore wind. You can feel that it is a good place for building a temple.

We did not stay long around the temple. We walked around the town again and headed back to Hachinohe. Lunch was waiting for us...