Boso Peninsula - Fields on Way Back & New Trip
Across Bay (Page-7) 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
After turning in
the Suzuki Wagon-R rent-a-car at Tateyama Station (see page six), I boarded
the return train for Tokyo, sitting on the inland side of the train as
it headed up the peninsula (see photos above and below taken from the
train window).
I took the train(s)
up and around the top of Tokyo Bay (with a transfer mid-way), getting
off at Hama-Kanaya Station long enough to walk around a little and check
out the cable car times for the ride up to the top of Mt. Nokogiri...
which was the destination of another trip across the bay (stay tuned).
What do you do
when you have one vertical picture to tit into a horizontal space?
Well, anyway, it occurred to me that there are now many people who have
never seen a color negative - so here's what one looks like (third image
below).
Trip to Mt. Nokogiri
For this trip,
once again I rode the rails to Kurihama to take the ferry across Tokyo
Bay to Kanaya to climb about on Mt. Nokogiri this time and take photos.
The shop above in Kurihama is named "Kurofune Tsurigu" ("Black Ship Fishing
Gear"), another reference to Kurihama's spot in history as the place where
Commodore Perry and his black ships first visited Japan (at the mouth
of, but not in Tokyo Bay, as is wrongly stated in most
western media accounts of Perry's first visit).
There's something
about ships that brings to mind epic journeys, transitions to new lands
and a change in self that is irrevocable. In San Francisco and now
in Tokyo, I sometimes find myself idly dreaming of how interesting/fun
it would be to commute to work via ferry....
Above - the small
sail on this type of boat seems to be used for trolling. It might
not look as though it would provide much locomotion, but the winds out
on the bay are pretty strong. Below - I can never stand to stay
inside when there is the option of being out under the sky and in the
sea air, with a free and clear view of the clouds above and out over the
water all around the ship.
If it were a very
long voyage, I would no doubt welcome some time shaded from the sun, but
my daily existence in Tokyo is one of hardly ever being in the sun at
all, so the feeling of freedom up on the top deck of the ship is one of
nearly pure pleasure....
Nearing Kanaya and Mt. Nokogiri. Slightly right of center is the
ropeway to the top, with the lower station having a red roof. The
Kurihama-bound ferry has just begun its journey across....
Looking down the bayside coastline of Boso Peninsula. The passengers
on the the ferries crossing paths look at one another as though at a mirror
- "So that's what we look like...".
The ferry backs
around before docking on the Kanaya side but pulls straight in on the
Kurihama side, backing around before setting off across the bay.
I imagine it might be that way in order to make the trip faster for people
in the morning who are in a hurry to get to work on the Tokyo side of
the bay (pulling straight out on the Kanaya side and pulling straight
in on the Tokyo side). It's also convenient on the Kanaya side for
tourists in that it allows more time for photographing Mt. Nokogiri from
the top deck of the ship - one of the best spots to photograph it from.
Copyright 2006 by Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon,
Images Through Glass, Tokyo
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