Kamakura
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I have been to Kamakura twice. On September 11, 2024, early in a trip that went on to South Korea and Taiwan, I started at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, the town’s main shrine, and had lunch in a kebab shop with two seats a few minutes away. Around midday, I went to Hase-dera, a temple on the hillside above the town, where you can turn the prayer wheels beside its bamboo grove and look out over Sagami Bay, and then up the road to the Great Buddha at Kotoku-in, which is hollow, so I paid ¥50 to go inside it. From there, I went on along the coast to Enoshima. I came back on July 25, 2026, with my nephew, on a day tour from Tokyo: Tsurugaoka Hachimangu again in the morning, then the Great Buddha, and then down to the coast, where the little Enoden railway runs right beside the sea.
Photos from Kamakura
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Prayer wheels at Hase-dera: turning one counts as reading the sutras inside.
Looking out over Kamakura to Sagami Bay from the hillside at Hase-dera.
The Enoden, the little railway that runs along the coast between Kamakura and Fujisawa.