Enoshima - 江ノ島

Enoshima (江の島) is a small island, about 4 km in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River, which flows into Sagami Bay in Japan.
Part of the city of Fujisawa, it is linked to the Katase section of the same city on the mainland by a 600 meter-long bridge.
Adjacent to the closest beach to Tokyo and Yokohama, the island and the nearby coast are the hub of a popular resort area.




Enoshima is the center of Shonan, a resort area along the coast of Sagami Bay known for its scenic beauty.


Katase-Enoshima Station (片瀬江ノ島駅), where I dropped off, is designed to evoke the image of Ryūgū-jō (竜宮城, or Dragon Palace), the underwater dwelling in the Urashima Taro fable.