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Join us for some easy hiking and fun days out, and make new friends.
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Anyone can join. Just be friendly, with the aim of making new friends.
One thing we do require is that you have a proper Meetup profile name. Please use your GIVEN NAME + your FAMILY NAME, or your GIVEN NAME + your FAMILY NAME INITIAL. We will allow you at least 30 minutes after joining to update it.
Why is it necessary? This helps event organisers identify you a little more easily. Thank you for understanding.
By joining the group, it will be assumed you have read, understood, and accepted these conditions.
Please join us!
Mark
Upcoming events
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3 mountain hiking & Exploring Sarushima
Keikyu Nagasawa Station, 京急長沢駅, Miura Fuji Course, JPWelcome to Tokyo Fun Hikes and Day Trips.
To join this event please see below and send me a message on LINE. Everyone needs to do this every time.
—Please join as for a fun day out in Yokosuka, where we will climb three small peaks, and then take a short boat ride across Tokyo Bay to Sarushima - Tokyo Bay’s only deserted nature island where visitors can have an adventure.
Please bring your lunch with you.
We will meet at Keikyu-Nagasawa Station BEFORE 10am. Please kindly ensure you arrive punctually.
We will begin with a beginner-friendly 3-hour hike starting at Keikyu-Nagasawa station (京急長沢駅) and ending at Tsukuihama station (津久井浜駅).
Each of the three peaks are low-level, taking around 30-minutes to climb to each summit.
We should see plenty of wildlife, and excellent views of Tsukuihama Beach, Izu's Oshima Island, and the Boso Peninsula.
We will then take a 20-minute train ride from Tsukuihama to Yokosuka-Chuo for Sarushima.
With an area of 1.6km, Sarushima is the only natural island in Tokyo Bay. It was used as a battery by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period, and after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the island was developed as part of the Yokosuka Navy Yard. Since it is located at the entrance of Tokyo Bay, it became a defense point to protect the capital of Japan.
Sarushima is now uninhabited, and after World War II, it was developed as a marine park. Nowadays, it is a popular leisure spot, only a 10 minute boat ride from Yokosuka.
On the island, there is a giant brick ruin. With cut walls, tunnels, and munitions depots. Going deeper, it is like a hidden secret base. These ruins were once forts designed to defend Tokyo; Japan’s capital city. It is reminiscent of Studio Ghibli’s “Castle in the Sky”. There is also an important brick ruin made using French techniques. It is designated as a national historic site.
It takes about an hour to walk around the island.
There are, in fact, no monkeys on Monkey Island. Sarushima's name came from an old legend that speaks of a large white monkey that guided a monk to a safe shelter after his ship drifted ashore on the island in a storm.
◾️After you have applied to join this event, please contact Mark via the Line application quoting your FULL NAME and this message: [Sarushima - 10th October] MARK’s LINE ACCOUNT
If you would like to bring a guest, please ask me via Line.
◾️参加されるイベントの名前(フルネーム)と日付を付けてマークにLINEしてください。
例:[Sarushima - 10th October] MARK’s LINE ACCOUNT
定員の都合上、お連れ様がいる時は事前にLINEでご相談ください。Additional fees (approximate):
Return ferry cost & park admission = ¥2000Event fee:
¥1000 (regular prepaid fee) if you pay by 7pm on 9th October (PayPay, or in cash at an earlier event).
¥1500 in cash on the event day (10th October) - please bring the correct money.If you don't have PayPay, please ask a friend or coworker to do the transaction for you (give them cash!).
Cancellation policy:
- Full refund given if cancellation is notified BY LINE MESSAGE by 7pm on 9th October.
- Reservation and then no-showing or late cancellation requires full payment of the event fee via PayPay within 24 hours. Further non-payment will result in removal from the group.
Tokyo Fun Events open chat group on LINE
Tokyo Fun Events on Instagram
Tokyo Fun Events on FacebookAfter the event, you may submit a review/evaluation. Please kindly rate appropriately as a low evaluation has an impact on the group. Things you should clearly understand in advance:
- I (Mark) am not a tour guide. For many events this will also be my first time, and events are mainly organised based on intensive internet research.
- Nature cannot be guaranteed, so flower festivals may be impacted by the recent climate.
- We aim to depart on time, however bus schedules might change. This is unavoidable.
- We request participants arrive EARLY. In rare cases we might wait a few minutes if we do not need to take a bus.
- The number of participants is not guaranteed. However we will not have large groups.
- The event finish time might be earlier or later than advertised. The hiking time might be longer/shorter than anticipated. Return bus times are not guaranteed.
5 attendees
川越氷川祭り Kawagoe Hikawa Festival 🏮and Kawagoe sightseeing.
川越駅, 埼玉県川越市脇田町24-9, Kawagoe, JPWelcome to Tokyo Fun Hikes and Day Trips.
To join this event please see below and send me a message on LINE. Everyone needs to do this every time.
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Let’s enjoy the Kawagoe Hikawa Festival together - a famous event in which mikoshi and festival floats move down the main street of the warehouse district with crowds gathered either side of the street creating a time-slip back to the Edo period.
We'll leave JR Kawagoe station at 2.15pm, so please make sure you arrive 10 minutes earlier.
The biggest highlight of Kawagoe Festival is Hikkawase (曳っかわせ) - a musical battle among floats. It is due to take place after 6pm..
About 50 members of different neighbourhoods put their respective festival floats as they walk through the down town district. When festival floats from different neighborhoods meet at an intersection or other spot, they make turn the float stage to face each other and begin to battle by performing their dance and music called "Ohayashi".
Ohayashi is the musical accompaniment played by five musicians namely 1 flute, 1 large drum, 2 small drums and 1 handbell. Together with dancers with a mask of a fox or a lion, they play a great performance and dancing on the stage of the float.
As the music and dancing grow in intensity, the float pullers and the audience shout encouragement to their performers. The festival reaches its climax as the float pullers hold lanterns that illuminate the festival float beautifully.
The Kawagoe Festival has plenty of stalls serving a variety of street food.
Prior to the festival we will do some sightseeing following this guide.
We hope to see:
Kitain Temple
Kawagoe Naritasan Temple
Kawagoe Kumano-jinja
Kura no Machi (Old Warehouse District) / Kurazukuri Street
Toki no Kane Bell Tower◾️After you have applied to join this event, please contact Mark via the Line application quoting your FULL NAME and this message: [Kawagoe festival - 17th October] MARK's LINE ACCOUNT
If you would like to bring a guest, please ask me via Line.◾️参加されるイベントの名前(フルネーム)と日付を付けてマークにLINEしてください。
例:[Kawagoe festival - 17th October] MARK's LINE ACCOUNT
定員の都合上、お連れ様がいる時は事前にLINEでご相談ください。Event fee:
¥1000 (regular prepaid fee) if you pay by 7pm on 5th September (PayPay, or in cash at an earlier event).
¥1500 in cash on the event day (6th September) - please bring the correct money.If you don't have PayPay, please ask a friend or coworker to do the transaction for you (give them cash!).
Cancellation policy:
- Full refund given if cancellation is notified BY LINE MESSAGE by 7pm on 5th September.
- Reservation and then no-showing or late cancellation requires full payment of the event fee via PayPay within 24 hours. Further non-payment will result in removal from the group.
Tokyo Fun Events open chat group on LINE
Tokyo Fun Events on Instagram
Tokyo Fun Events on FacebookAfter the event, you may submit a review/evaluation. Please kindly rate appropriately as a low evaluation has an impact on the group. Things you should clearly understand in advance:
- I (Mark) am not a tour guide. For many events this will also be my first time, and events are mainly organised based on intensive internet research.
- Nature cannot be guaranteed, so flower festivals may be impacted by the recent climate.
- We aim to depart on time, however bus schedules might change. This is unavoidable.
- We request participants arrive EARLY. In rare cases we might wait a few minutes if we do not need to take a bus.
- The number of participants is not guaranteed. However we will not have large groups.
- The event finish time might be earlier or later than advertised. The hiking time might be longer/shorter than anticipated. Return bus times are not guaranteed.
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