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Kamakura
Kamakura's iconic 13.35m bronze Great Buddha, seated in the open air since 1252.
Hillside temple famed for a giant golden Kannon, June hydrangeas and bay views.
Kamakura's grand samurai-era shrine, spiritual heart of the medieval capital.
One of Kamakura's Five Great Zen temples, a wooded Rinzai complex by Kita-Kamakura.
Kamakura's premier Zen temple, first of the Five Great Temples, with a hilltop shrine.
Serene Zen temple with a dense grove of some 2,000 moso bamboo and a tea pavilion.
Rinzai temple washed blue by thousands of June hydrangeas, with a famous round window.
Hillside cave shrine where visitors wash money in a spring to have it multiply.
Kamakura's oldest temple, a thatched Kannon hall reached by a mossy stone stair.
One of the Five Great Zen temples, with a raked stone garden and a hillside teahouse.
Wooded hilltop park with a statue of Kamakura's founder, cherry trees and access to the Daibutsu Trail.
Rocky cape and clifftop park with a celebrated sunset view of Mount Fuji over Enoshima.
A ridge trail through wooded hills linking Kita-Kamakura's temples to the Great Buddha at Hase.
A prefectural botanical garden in northern Kamakura famed for peonies, irises, roses and a tropical greenhouse.
Kamakura's main sandy beach, a wide crescent for summer swimming, sunsets and seaside strolls.
The quieter eastern beach of Kamakura, popular with windsurfers and beside ancient harbour ruins.
Kamakura's longest ridge hike, running over the town's highest hills between Kencho-ji and Zuisen-ji.
A large woodland park preserving Kamakura's traditional satoyama landscape of forest, ponds and rice terraces.
A scenic dark-sand surf beach with sweeping views of Enoshima and Mount Fuji across the bay.
The offshore stone remains of Japan's oldest surviving man-made harbour, visible at low tide off Zaimokuza.
The 1894 confectioner behind Hato Sabure, Kamakura's iconic dove-shaped butter shortbread.
A 1945 kissaten famous for thick hotcakes and its John Lennon connection.
A long-running authentic German bakery and cafe in quiet Yukinoshita.
A pioneering wild-yeast artisan bakery tucked in an Onarimachi alley.
