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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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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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Hasedera

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

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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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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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Engakuji Shariden

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

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Meigetsuin

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

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Hokokuji

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

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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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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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Sugimotodera

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

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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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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.