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The bronze face and tightly curled hair of the Great Buddha at Kotoku-in, Kamakura, against a clear blue sky.Visitors coming up a wide flight of stone steps at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, a guard in uniform at the top, a red-framed hall with a grey tiled roof below and a red torii far down the approach.The white glass-ringed tower of the Enoshima Sea Candle rising above green treetops against a clear blue sky.The front of Enoden Kamakura Station, a white building with a pale green roof and a green sign reading Kamakura Station, commuters at the ticket machines below.

Kamakura, Kanagawa

Kamakura: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Kamakura is about 1 hour from Tokyo and about 30 minutes from Yokohama. Its sights fall into four groups reached from Kamakura Station: Hase on the Enoden (Kotoku-in and Hasedera), the shrine and shopping street in town, the Zen temples around Kita-Kamakura, and Enoshima at the far end of the line. Most temples stop admitting visitors between 16:00 and 17:30; Tsurugaoka Hachimangu's grounds and the Enoshima garden stay open until 20:00.

Food comes in three kinds: snacks and Hato Sabure around Komachi-dori, shirasu bowls in town and on Enoshima, and tea and curry at the temples. The pages below split the area the way a trip does: where to eat, what to do, and which base to stay at, from Kamakura Station and Hase to the coast at Shichirigahama and Enoshima, or Ofuna.

Kamakura: food, things to do, where to stay