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FIRST VISIT GUIDE

Learn how shrines and temples differ, then look at the photos

Start with the two explanations. Below them are photos and entries for shrines and temples across Japan.

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Kamakura

Kotokuin

A seated Amida Nyorai, a National Treasure. It once sat inside a great hall, but tsunami and typhoons took the building, and it has stood in the open ever since.

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Kamakura

Kenchoji

Held to be the first full Zen temple in Japan, and first of the five great Zen temples of Kamakura.

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Kawasaki

Kawasaki Daishi

Among the most visited temples in Japan at new year. Known as a Daishi who wards off misfortune, and for the rhythmic sound of sweet-cutting along its approach.

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Fujisawa

Enoshima Jinja

Three shrines in one: Hetsunomiya, Nakatsunomiya and Okutsunomiya. Counted among the three great Benten shrines of Japan, and revered as a deity of the performing arts.

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Kamakura

Engakuji

Its Shariden is a National Treasure and the leading example of Zen-style architecture. The bell is a National Treasure too.

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Kamakura

Hasedera

It enshrines an eleven-headed Kannon among the largest wooden figures in Japan. Known for its hydrangeas.

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Kamakura

Wakamiya Oji

It runs dead straight from Tsurugaoka Hachimangu to the sea. Yoritomo had it built praying for his wife to give birth safely.

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Kamakura

Kenchoji Sanmon

Called the tanuki gate, from a legend that a tanuki took the form of the abbot to raise the funds.

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Kamakura

Engakuji Shariden

A National Treasure, and the leading example of Zen-style architecture.

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Kamakura

Meigetsuin

The hydrangea temple, known for the garden framed by its round window.

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Kamakura

Hokokuji

A grove of about 2,000 moso bamboo. It is called the bamboo temple.

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Kamakura

Zeniarai Benzaiten

Coins washed in the spring inside the cave are said to multiply. The custom is traced to a dream that came to Yoritomo.

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Kamakura

Sasuke Inari Jinja

Vermilion torii line the mountain path. Its deity is said to have urged Yoritomo to raise his army.

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Kamakura

Sugimotodera

Held to be the oldest temple in Kamakura, with a striking moss-covered stairway.

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Kamakura

Tokeiji

It was once an enkiridera, where a woman could obtain a divorce. That refuge worked for six hundred years.

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Kamakura

Hasedera Kannon

Over nine metres tall, among the largest wooden Kannon figures in Japan.

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Kamakura

Daibutsu Tainai

You can go inside. The seams of the casting show the technique of the time.

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Fujisawa

Enoshima Iwaya

Caves cut by the waves. Kukai and Nichiren are said to have practised here, and it is held to be the origin of Enoshima Jinja.

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Fujisawa

Ryukoji

Where Nichiren was nearly executed, in the incident known as the Tatsunokuchi persecution.

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Hakone

Kuzuryu Jinja

It enshrines a dragon in the waters of Lake Ashi. Worshippers gather for the monthly rite on the thirteenth.

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Odawara

Hotoku Ninomiya Jinja

It enshrines Ninomiya Sontoku, standing in a corner of the Odawara Castle grounds.

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Isehara

Oyama Afuri Jinja

Hundreds of thousands climbed here each year on the Oyama pilgrimage of the Edo period. As its other name, the rain-falling mountain, suggests, it was a place to pray for rain.

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Isehara

Oyamadera

Halfway up to Afuri Jinja. Known for kawarake-nage, throwing clay discs.

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Yokohama

Iseyama Kotai Jingu

The Ise of eastern Japan. It was built as the tutelary shrine of the newly opened port of Yokohama.