Enoshima Island Field Trip

I love taking Japanese lessons. I learn a little each time, and my favorite things are the field trips! Today, we went to Enoshima Island.
There is a wonderful restaurant there. This is the crowd who have been waiting 40 minutes and want to see where they are on the list (that paper on the stand in the foreground).
This is the place. It is called Takoshima. Their specialty is shirasu. It is a small little fish that I love to eat. They taste buttery to me. Spring is the best season for them. Our teacher said they tempura fry it here. Fried food? I'm THERE! Fried food is a favorite with these Japanese people, too! Or so it seems from the crowd.
There are actually 2 Takoshima restaurants on Enoshima Island. They are that popular! Just look for this logo!
Japan has finally turned warm, and it's early spring. That means it is sunny and just starting to get humid. So, when I saw the lady pouring icy cold beer, I was anguished. Japan has a zero BAC policy, and I needed to pick up William from school. So, on to the next best thing. Mango juice. But wait, there's a catch!
This is shirasu mango soda. Yes, little fish taste! To smell it, you get a whiff of the ocean or fish. But it still finished with the mango strong. They make it here for Enoshima Island.
This is what our Japanese teacher had for lunch. That is fatty tuna, salmon roe, and raw shirasu on seaweed and salad greens. You order your egg raw, a little cooked, or onsen... all of them have a runny yolk. Raw, a little white cooked, or the white all cooked. You break it open and stir it up... instant sauce.
This is what I had for lunch. There's some shirasu cooked (it's the little white fish on the tempura), some of them raw on salad... it was okay. The soup was excellent with a lot of seaweed, a thick mild variety and egg. Num. There was tofu with shirasu, a tatami shirasu (looks like a tatami mat) it's just a cracker made from it. There was egg custard which I love. Very asian, it's in the white covered bowl, and rice in the black covered bowl. I didn't get it all eaten.

Eating here was a little 'Iron Chef' experience, since everything included the not-so-secret ingredient of shirasu.
Here we are, me, Reina Sensei, and Jun-yi.
This is afterwards. Talk about full! But it was a good full!
Enoshima is alive with color from azaleas and fresh green and red leaves.
We didn't take the escalator, but rather walked the stairs... trying to work off that tempura!
Funny, but this looks small in this picture, but it's rather large. There were a lot of love fortunes to be had in the area, and apparently the cannon here is all about love. Thought it was funny she has a stick to whack with in one hand, and a forbidden fruit in the other. Or so it looked to me. Now, THAT'S love....
Reina and Jun-yi. If you could see the background, you see the bridge and the beach behind them. It was such a gorgeous day to enjoy the scenery. And the shopping was great there, too!
We passed a TV show videotaping. This is one of the actors, or it's more like a game-show/variety show, posing with an ice cream proprietor. They didn't want me to take pics of them actually shooting (that's video speak for getting video). I did, but it was soft focus, and I want to respect their request.
Maybe they weren't telling us to not take pictures. Maybe they didn't want us to eat all the ice cream!

Last field trip we went to Ring Ring Ring, a filled ring doughnut shop, and a traditional Japanese buffet in Kawasaki. Now you know WHY I love field trips.... It's all about the FOOD!