Schedule
Day1:1st day: JR Tokyo-Izu kyu Shimoda station (3 hours, by using 'JR Minami-Izu free ticket'*), walk to the 'Gyokusen-ji temple**' and back to the Hotel (Kurohune hotel, http://www.kurofune-hotel.com/lang/en.html).
Day2:2nd day:Walk in Shimoda city, such as 'Street of Commodore Perry***', Houhuku-ji temple, and move to Kawadu station to see the festival of early-blooming cherry trees**** which is held from early February to March. Then back to Tokyo.
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*JR Minami-Izu free ticket: The price is 6,160yen and you can pass through from Tokyo to Izu area and go around at Izu area. This train is called 'Odoriko-gou' in which Odoriko means the dancing girls in old time.
**Mr. Tawnsend Harris has stayed in this temple to make the 'Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and the Empire of Japan' in 1858.
***Commodore Matthew C. Perry presented a message from the President of the United States to the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), which resulted in a treaty between the United States and the Empire of Japan in 1854. Commodore Perry's eBlack Ships' roused the Japanese people from their long peaceful sleep.
****Kawazu cherry blossom festival. It is the early-blooming flowers.
http://www.kawazu-onsen.com/sakura/
http://kawazuzakura.net/
Odoriko-gou is the famous scenic train from Tokyo to Izu-Shimoda which has a big window and nice ocean view. Fantastic seafood restaurant called 'Tokuzoumaru' in front of Shimoda station
Lunch set in the restaurant with 'Kinmedai (Red bream)' Gyokusen-ji where the first United States Consulate in Japan has been set up.
Kurohune Hotel and the nice ocean view from the guest room
Nesugata yama and Shimoda port, Monument of Commodore Perry, Hohukuji temple which has famous story of Mr. Ryoma Sakamoto at Meiji Restoration in 1863.
Kawazu cherry blossom festival, and nice view of Izu-Oshima island
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