[Date and Time] Saturday, October 16, at 11:00~18:00
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha), and Enoshima Island
[Visitors] 66 participants, including 1 special guest, from 22 countries, with 17 from Indonesia, 10 from Afghanistan, 7 from China, 4 from Nepal, 3 each from Sri Lanka and Syria, 2 each from the Philippines, India, Thailand, Turkey, and Cambodia, and 1 each from Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Chile, Brazil, Mongolia, Botswana, Samoa, Serbia, Iraq, Laos, and Malawi.
[Attendants] 26 KSGG members and 3 observers
Although the festival day for children aged seven, five and three is in November, many fathers and mothers took their children a month earlier in October to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine. A participant from Cambodia, who said he has four children and the youngest one is seven, walked up to the Japanese children, patted their heads, hugged them, and took many pictures of them. Also, he said there is no festival like this in Cambodia.
In the afternoon we went to Kotokuin Temple, where they were so fascinated by the Great Buddha’s profound mercy and power that they said their wishes. It was the scene we can see only in the Buddhist countries. At Enoshima Island, they ate grilled cuttlefish, bought souvenirs for their families and, at last, were taken of themselves in a group picture against the ocean in the background. Despite a large number of participants we guided this time, we could finish our tour of Kamakura happily without any trouble.
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha), and Enoshima Island
[Visitors] 66 participants, including 1 special guest, from 22 countries, with 17 from Indonesia, 10 from Afghanistan, 7 from China, 4 from Nepal, 3 each from Sri Lanka and Syria, 2 each from the Philippines, India, Thailand, Turkey, and Cambodia, and 1 each from Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Chile, Brazil, Mongolia, Botswana, Samoa, Serbia, Iraq, Laos, and Malawi.
[Attendants] 26 KSGG members and 3 observers
Although the festival day for children aged seven, five and three is in November, many fathers and mothers took their children a month earlier in October to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine. A participant from Cambodia, who said he has four children and the youngest one is seven, walked up to the Japanese children, patted their heads, hugged them, and took many pictures of them. Also, he said there is no festival like this in Cambodia.
In the afternoon we went to Kotokuin Temple, where they were so fascinated by the Great Buddha’s profound mercy and power that they said their wishes. It was the scene we can see only in the Buddhist countries. At Enoshima Island, they ate grilled cuttlefish, bought souvenirs for their families and, at last, were taken of themselves in a group picture against the ocean in the background. Despite a large number of participants we guided this time, we could finish our tour of Kamakura happily without any trouble.