A year in Japan: Enoshima and weird ice cream

Recently we went to Enoshima. It is about an hour away by car from our house. Enoshima is a small island connected by a bridge that you can walk across. After we walked across the bridge we went up a hill and there was a big shrine. We went up lots of steps to the top of the island where there was a garden which a British person made. Normally Japanese gardens have wood in them but this one had bricks. Also At the top of the island is a light house called Enoshima Tower, which we went up. It isn't so high, but because it was very windy the building was moving and you couldn't use the stairs. Because Enoshima is a hill and the tower is at the top you could see quite far away. On a clear day you can see Mount Fuji, but we couldn't, but be could see Landmark tower in Yokohama.

There is also a cave on the island. We held some candles so we could see in front of us. Inside the cave there was a dragon and drum, you wish for something and hit the drum twice, if a light flashed twice then your wish would come true. If the light flashed once then half your wish would come true, but if the light doesn't flash or you beat the drum more than twice then your dream wouldn't come true.

When we got out of the cave we had weird flavour ice cream. I chose Black vanilla with bamboo charcoal in. You can see in the picture other weird flavours like wasabi, or whitebait!