Japan JASDF Kawasaki C-2 (XC-2) First Flight - January 26, 2010
Kawasaki was an important trade city since the days of the Tokugawa shogunate as a stop on the Tokaido Road between Tokyo and Kyoto, with a population of more than 1 3 million, Kawasaki is the ninth most populous city in Japan, but it is sandwiched between the two largest cities in Japan, Tokyo and Yokohama, and therefore ignored by the vast majority of zooming tourists between the two there are attractions, however, that make Kawasaki a unique side trip, including a Buddhist temple that ranks as one of the top three of Japan's most visited temples in the new year, a Shinto shrine of fertility which hosts one of the wildest festivals in Japan, and an open-air museum underestimated.
Geographically, Kawasaki is in the middle of the Keihin region, separated from the metropolitan Tokyo by the Tama River, which roughly follows, and is divided into seven districts Part of Kawasaki, along the Tokyo Bay, contains industrial work areas and blue-collar housing, while the highest buildings range are in Tama hills to the west and inland.
To reach Kawasaki from Narita Airport, take the JR Narita Express to Tokyo or Shinagawa and transfer to the Tokaido Line It takes about 90 minutes and the journey is covered by the Japan Rail Pass and JR East Rail Pass Without passing the price one way is 3280; for only 220 more you can travel to Kawasaki using the combination Suica N EX Ticket View JR Line Narita section of the article for more details.
A cheaper way to travel from Narita Airport is by using a combination of commuter trains on the railway Keisei, Toei Asakusa subway line and Keikyu line It takes about 2 hours with at least one change of trains required along the way, and trains can get crowded, but the price is only 1380.
From Haneda Airport, you can take the Keikyu Line Airport Express エ ア ポ ー ト 急 行 in Keikyu-Kawasaki station in 15-20 minutes to 400 Note that the Airport Express has several variations If the destination of the train Shin-Zushi is 新 逗 子 or Kanazawa- Bunko 金 沢 文庫, then you can stay on the train throughout the trip If the train goes to another destination, it is likely to continue in Tokyo so you will need to change at the station Keikyu-Kamata the train along the main line on the platform 2.
JR Kawasaki station is on the main line Tokaido Tokyo Trains on both the Tokaido and Keihin-Tohoku Line stop here Tokaido line is slightly faster than Tokyo Station 15 minutes compared to the Keihin-Tohoku line 22 minutes; 290 it costs in both cases Yokohama it takes 7 minutes on the Tokaido line and 13 on the Keihin-Tohoku line 210.
The Nambu line goes Kawasaki along the western part of Tokyo It runs in Tachikawa, a stop on the JR Chuo Line 55 minutes 620, and also provides connections to the Tokyu line Musashi-Kosugi, railways Odakyu to Noborito and Keio Railway Bubaigawara.
The right next Keikyu-Kawasaki station is also available cheaply on the private Keikyu line of Shinagawa 10 minutes Express Limited, 220 The journey from Yokohama Keikyu is more or less on par with the Tokaido 6 minutes 220.
Shin-Kawasaki Station on the Yokosuka and Shonan-Shinjuku lines, is quite far from the main city center, located in a rural area near an industrial plant Mitsubishi Besides Shin-Kawasaki Musashi Kosugi station opened in March 2010 and provides a transfer line Nambu related Kawasaki.
Although it is possible to reach Kawasaki from the west end of the Yamanote loop namely Shinjuku, Shibuya taking the Shonan-Shinjuku Line Musashi Kosugi and change the Nambu line, the easiest way is to take the Yamanote Line , changing at Shinagawa on the Tokaido line, Keihin-Tohoku or Keikyu that these trains are more frequent.
Two main routes through the center of each side Kawasaki Ward Kawasaki station to the east of the trains is also called Route 15 Dai-Ichi Keihin 第一 京 浜 all west of trains is Route 1 also known as Dai-ni Keihin第二 京 浜 the two roads run between Tokyo and Yokohama Route 409 crosses the roads north of Kawasaki station.
The toll road Metropolitan Expressway provides two connections in Kawasaki Ward K1 Yokohane line continuation of Route 1 Haneda line connects to Highway 409 to the Daishi output Bayshore online aka Wangan line, a connection can be made in Kawasaki Ukishima Junction the K6 Kawasaki line that runs into the road 409 toll road Tokyo Bay Aqua line, which runs from Tokyo Bay through Kisarazu, also connects to the Kawasaki line K6.
Route 15 in Kawasaki runs closer to the old Tokaido Road.
Kawasaki has a ferry terminal that previously provided services to Kochi and Miyazaki These services have been suspended since June 2005, but still appear in the schedule for the latest information, contact Miyazaki Car Ferry, 03-5540-6921.
The Keikyu Daishi surprisingly rustic line 京 急 大師 線 putters in the backyards of people, and is useful for travel three stops Keikyu Kawasaki Kawasaki Daishi Shinagawa, it takes about 20 minutes total at a cost of 230.
You really do not need a car to get to Kawasaki, especially as the trains make it easy to enter and move However, Mazda Nissan and Nippon Rentacar have a car service between the station Kawasaki and Highway 15 in case of need.
The legend of Kanamara-sama once, but in a country not very far if you live in Tokyo, there lived a beautiful girl innkeeper Alas, a demon evil with sharp teeth had taken a liking to it the demon had courted the girl, but she remained pure and one day the demon learned that the girl was engaged to be married the next day so that night, the demon snuck into his house and crawled up inside his Our heroine, terrified but helpless, said no and the wedding took place as planned, but on the night of the wedding, when her husband tried to perform his conjugal duties for the first time, the sharp teeth of the devil have snickety-snack and the poor was turned into a eunuch and history tells us that her next husband met the same fate, although the details of how they conned the village idiot in her marriage are not passed ours.
It was clear that things could not continue like this, and the whole village gathered to discuss the, shall we say, the thorny issue After much deliberation, a lit candle on top of the head blacksmith Why not, he says, why not deflower the girl with an iron phallus metal tool was duly built and tested, and chomping on the devil found he had bitten more than he could chew; moaning, he crawled out and slipped out to hide in a dark corner and nurse his broken teeth Smith married the daughter and they lived happily ever after, except the demon and the two eunuchs, that is.
Kawasaki is largely an industrial area and residential suburb as typical in Japan, not much difference between the two is done but there is a very large temple and a very offbeat shrine to attract curious tourists occasionally.
Kawasaki Daishi 川 崎 大師 officially Heikenji 平 間 寺 2 Japanese A large temple dedicated to famous monk and scholar Kobo see Mt Koya Featuring an 8-sided pagoda 5 floors and larger buildings of the temple you can shake a stick at Kawasaki Daishi is a textbook example of a Japanese temple and remarkable primarily for the fact that on a weekday, you can pretty much have the place for you within walking distance of the train station Kawasaki Daishi, 10 minutes through a shopping mall to be one of the largest temples in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, this place is popular as a place for locals phenomenally praying in the new year at midnight.
Wakamiya Hachiman-Gu Shrine 若 宮 八 幡 宮, 3 A quiet Shinto shrine that would be indistinguishable from your average neighborhood shrine if not for one thing happens to be one of the few remaining fertility shrines of Japan, and the deity worshiped here takes the form of a meter long iron phallus known Kanamara-sama 金 ま ら 様, illuminated iron Big penis Lord There are a number of stories behind this, and while most entertaining is certainly the official legend see box, the most likely explanation seems that prostitutes brothels nearby still a big Kawasaki industry used to pray here for protection to reach the sanctuary, take the exit that the Kawasaki Daishi station, cross the intersection and follow the road that branches off second from right There's a hospital on the visible corner of the station, and the shrine is just beyond it p Artage inexplicably park with a playground Certainly the most visited during the festival time see Do.
In the sanctuary building, you can also find a small sex museum featuring the Japanese erotic art mostly some notable exhibits include a version with two monkeys Three monkeys model and size extra life brass of a vagina ; if you buy an amulet of the store see Buy, you're supposed to rub against this hour of operation are erratic, but the shrine shop agent will usually be happy to open the entry of the application is free, but donations are accepted.
Nihon Minka-En 日本 民 家園, or Japan outdoor Folk House Museum 4 large exhibition park of over twenty traditional Japanese houses and the gate of Nagoya Castle, dating from the late 17th to early 20th century and transplanted from around the country rarely crowded, and costing only 500 admission, the museum is a 12 minute walk from the Mukogaoka-yuen station on the Odakyu line from Shinjuku or 20 minutes on the JR Noborito Nanbu line.
If you like to gamble, Kawasaki is also home to a horse racing track and a bike race piste Keirin The horse is next to the line station Keikyu Daishi Minatomachi, while the Keirin track is 15 minute walk from JR and Keikyu Kawasaki station.
Summer fireworks displays While the summer fireworks are ubiquitous across Japan, especially Tokyo, one outside the Futako-Tamagawa station between Tokyo and Kawasaki is perhaps the hidden gem calendar He factor boom that rivals some of the biggest, but rather is divided into two on the list each with half the notoriety and bumping at the end of the list that half of fireworks are launched in the Tokyo prefecture and a half in Kanagawa Prefecture overnight, they therefore turns it looks like a bit like a combination of a upmanship happens near the end of summer, check schedules local.
The event known as Kawasaki is Kanamara Matsuri 金 ま ら 祭 り, also known as the festival Iron Penis name on the first Sunday of April fleet Penis charged temple o-mikoshi parade through the streets of Kawasaki and all world sloshed the festival was to some extent hijacked by foreign tourists and transvestite community new half of Tokyo, which are often half the audience, but as you can imagine the people running the show aren t terribly uptight and nobody seems to mind o-Chinko penis and vagina newest addition o-Manko popsicles boiled sweets are the most Manko sold especially tend to be produced in small quantities and sell early morning Chinko usually sell before noon for a souvenier-away, picking as traditionally dyed fabric like a penis scarf with badges on it.
Ride the World Shortest Escalator located in the basement of the store near the More Kawasaki More's station is small, thin, dirty looking for a just south of the two stations on the road with all ground floor of a Pop arcade escalator and find the entrance of the lowest underground parking and there you have the act of riding, you have maybe 2-3 seconds so that you can easily to sandwich it in another place daytrip legend varies considerably just why this thing exists, especially considering that it is located between two staircases making it unnecessary even to people with disabilities the popular version says that they simply ran out of money and stopped construction after 7 or metal steps were made local drunks can tell you stories of a child dying, it may be more plausible is that they simply f ory measures you decide.
Visit of the industrial area of Kawasaki in the night Located on a pile of human islands and divide by a network of canals and bridges, the combination of smoke, plumbing and lighting makes quite spectacular and a great drawcard for local photographers the best way is to get there take impropturely is simply the Keikyu Daishi going through, walk south and find a road to the trend is leading to one of the largest islands theres many long deadlock that t quite donation reached the islands so print aerial photo or a Google Earth map or Yahoo Maps advance the most luxurious way is a night cruise or bus Hato visit to the unusual mode for domestic tourists Japanese in 2010.
Wakamiya Hachiman has a wonderful selection of amulets promising fertility, sexual prowess and protection against the cost of illness 500-1000, and part of the proceeds going to AIDS research HIV.
In the time of the festival, a small market selling penis-shaped candies and other sexual paraphernalia appears on the ground of the sanctuary.
Long considered a working class, blue collar, industrial city with little to offer in terms of Tokyo sophistication or internationalized flair of Yokohama, recent central Kawasaki recently about thirty years undergone a revitalization and modernization in the station area which often leaves Japanese surprised by the changes that took place the area around the station is quite clean and modern, very safe and convenient and provides good value in terms of consumption facilities You will not find much in the way of significant or must eat culinary restaurants but there are very competent and reasonable dining particularly on the east side of the station and in the arcade metro Azalea connected to the output of the station in the other place to check is the ground -restaurant atop the Seibu store building the service next to the Nikko Hotel which is a few minutes walk the output of the JR Kawasaki station.
Dipper Dan Kawasaki Lefront 1F, 1-11 Nittshintyo exit of JR Kawasaki Station, then walk about 7 minutes can take the service by coupon, 044-245-3933 5 This coffee 10 hours to twenty-two hours focus on crapes, gelato, pasta and edit.
HUB Kawasaki Biko Bldg B1, 5-1 Ekimae-honcho 3-minute walk from JR Kawasaki Station, 044-223-5082 81 6 Part of the British style HUB chain pubs picture menus with English descriptions Happy hour specials are available every day from opening time until 7pm change.
There is no compelling reason to stay here overnight and most visitors a day of sightseeing in Tokyo, but if you are sharing time between Tokyo and Yokohama and your destinations are on the JR Tokaido Line or the Keihin Kyuko and hotels in Shinagawa are all sold, Kawasaki could be a good alternative because there are many cheap business hotels in Kawasaki outside the CBD area, it Sá large group of highwayside motels Shin-Maruko near the Tama river.
Toyoko Inn 東 横 イ ン, checkin 7 16 00; cash 10 00 unadorned popular Toyoko Inn chain maintains three locations within walking distance of train stations Kawasaki Toyoko Inn Club members can check in from 15 00 change.
Kawasaki Ekimae Isago 川 崎 駅 前 砂子, 05.01.23 Isago 3-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kawasaki Station, 2 minute walk from Keikyu Kawasaki Station, 44-222-1045 Fax 81 81 44-222 -1047, 8 Singles 6800- 7300, modify semidouble 7800.
Kawasaki Ekimae Shiyakusho-dori 川 崎 駅 前 市 役 所 通, 11.02.15 Isago 3-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kawasaki Station, 3 minutes walk from Keikyu Kawasaki Station, 81 44-230-1045 fax 81 44-230-1054, 9 Singles 6400-7300, Twins Double 8800 edition.
Originally Kawasaki Ekimae オ リ ジ ナ ル 川 崎 駅 前, 24-3 Ekimae-honcho 1-minute walk from Keikyu Kawasaki Station, 5 minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kawasaki Station, 81 44-246 -1045 fax 44-245-2581 81, 5715 10 Singles, Twins Double change 7620.
Mets Kawasaki Hotel ホ テ ル メ ッ ツ 川 崎, 72-2 Horikawa-cho 1 minute from the West Exit of JR Kawasaki Station, 81 44-540-1100 Fax 44-533-7771 81 11 15 00 checkin; 00 body 11 will be hard pressed to find a hotel that is closer to a station on the Tokaido Line between Tokyo and Yokohama stations free broadband internet and breakfast both Western and Japanese style available Japan Rail Pass holders and JR East Pass receive a discount Singles of 9000, the twin of 13500, 16600 Double edition.
Kawasaki Grand Hotel 川 崎 グ ラ ン ド ホ テ ル, 6-2 Miyamotocho 6-minute walk from JR Kawasaki Station, 81 44-244-2111 Fax 44-222-4979 81 12 14 00 checkin; November 00 cash a little old, but with friendly staff, most of whom speak some English Rooms are a bit more spacious than most other business hotels in Kawasaki at the price, and have access to broadband internet It's 7-11-type place on a corner and an Indian restaurant on the other; they also sell things in the lobby A rich Japanese and western breakfast with endless coffee from their espresso machine is included in Japanese and English newspapers free Many clubs and other things in the 2-minute walk and, if you have the time and money of 8400 Singles, Twins 12600 edition of Double.
Kawasaki Nikko Hotel 川 崎 日 航 ホ テ ル, 1 Nisshin-cho 1-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kawasaki Station, 81 44-244-5941 Fax 44-244-4445 81 13 13 00 checkin; crate November 00 Part of the prestigious hotel chain Nikko This means being willing to pay Singles 15000, 23000 edition of Double.
Odawara Castle hosts the only Japanese in the area of greater Tokyo.
Japanese car 1 Kawasaki, Japan, exit East Kawasaki Station East exit Kawasaki.