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EXPERIENCE Central Honshu

Visitors, under the cover
of umbrellas, paying their
respects to the Great Buddha

2 INSIDER TIP
KAMAKURA Some parts of the town
Getting Around
are best explored on
foot but, with so many
鎌倉 hills, it’s worth buying
a one-day bus pass from
! F5 ⌂ Kanagawa Prefecture £ JR , Odakyu and Kamakura station. The
Enoden lines n At Kamakura Stn; www.city.kamakura. energetic can also rent
kanagawa.jp/kamakura-kankou/en
a bicycle from here. Kita-Kamakura Engaku-ji 0 meters 800 N
Station
A seaside town of temples and wooded hills, Kamakura
was Japan’s administrative capital from 1192 until 1333. Tokei-ji Meigetsu-in 0 yards 800
Favored by artists and writers, Kamakura has numerous carvings of the 33 incarnations YAMANOUCHI Temple Hansobo
antique and crafts shops, and in cherry-blossom season of Kannon. There is also a Jochi-ji Shrine
and on summer weekends, it teems with visitors. sutra repository; rotating the Temple
sutras is said to earn as much Kencho-ji
merit as reading them. KAJIWARA Choju-ji Kakuon-ji
statue of the Amida Buddha The 1264 bell is the town’s Temple Temple
1 " is 44 ft (13.5 m) tall. Its pro­ oldest. Below it is a hall dedi­
K A M A K U R A - K A I D O
Great Buddha portions are distorted so that cated to Jizo, guardian of Enno-ji Tsurugaoka
Temple Hachiman-gu
⌂ 2-2-8 Hase £ Hase Stn it seems balanced to those children, surrounded by count­ Zeni-Arai OGIGAYATSU Shrine Kamakura-gu Zuisen-ji
Shrine
@ # 8am–6pm daily in front of it – this use of less statues to children who Benten Shrine National YUKINOSHITA NIKAIDO
∑ kotoku-in.jp perspective may show Greek have died or been aborted. Treasure House
influence (via the Silk Road). Sasuke-no Museum Sugimoto-dera
The Great Buddha (Daibutsu) Inari Shrine Temple
is Kamakura’s most famous KOMACHI-DORI WAKAMIYA-OJI K A N A Z AW A - K A I D O Jomio-ji
Temple
sight. Cast in 1252, the bronze 3 " SASUKE Hokai-ji JOMYOJI
Temple
2 " Myohon-ji SHIYAKUSHO-DORI IMAKOJI
Hase-dera Temple Kamakura Oimo Café Hokoku-ji
Kanaria
⌂ 1-15-1 Omachi § (0467) Station
⌂ 3-11-2 Hase £ Hase Stn 22-0777 £ Kamakura Stn KOMACHI Myohon-ji
Did You Know? @ # 8am–5:30pm daily (to # 9am–5pm daily Great
5pm Oct–Feb) ∑ hasedera. On a hillside of soaring trees, Buddha SASAMEMACHI
The Great Buddha has jp/en this temple, with its unusually
shock absorbers in Simple and elegant, Hase­dera steep, extended roof, is the Hase-dera Y U I G A H A M A - D O R I
its base to protect it is home to a superb 11­faced town’s largest that belongs Temple HASE Wadazuka WA KA MIYA-OJ I OMACHI Myoho-ji
Temple
from earth quakes. Kannon, bodhisattva of mercy. to the Nichiren sect. It was Hase Yuigahama Nameri Riv er HISAGI
The Treasure House displays established in 1260, in mem­ YUIGAHAMA ZAIMOKUZA Ankokuron-ji
Temple
char acterful Muromachi­era ory of a 1203 massacre. Chosho-ji
Yuigahama Kuhon-ji Temple
Beach
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