Though it’s not season for swimming, I went to see the sea.

I made my mother get on the second car of Jo’etsu Shinkansen. Today she has gone to my sister’s house in Kanto Region near Tokyo. Unless I make sure that she is on board of shinkansen (High-speed railway), she might come back to my house after window shopping in Niigata.

I left the platform of Shinkansen before the train departed, I headed to the Number 9 bus stop which is bound for Hamauracho.

There is sand hill between the town and the sea shore. I walked up a slope and stairway a little bit, went down from the low ridge, and then reached the Sekiya-hama (Sekiya Beach).

When I was a kid, my father took me to this beach in summer. There was a beach house that partnered with the teachers’ association. My father was a teacher, so we always went to that beach house. If my memory is correct, that was the 2nd from the corner to the left. In the photo, it is “こがねや”. Probably its management, or even the name might have changed.

to be cont’d