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Kamakura Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kamakura
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Hotel Mets Kamakura Ofuna
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Kamakura Prince Hotel
64 reviews
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Grand Hotel Shonan Kamakura
14 reviews
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Hotel Izumi Kamakura
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Hotel Kamakura Mori
3 reviews
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Kaihinso Kamakura
4 reviews
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Kamakura Park Hotel
5 reviews
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Hotel&Restaurant Sarah Kamakura
2 reviews
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Shangrila Tsuruoka Kamakura
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Hotel Tsurugaokakaikan Kamakura
1 review
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KKR Kamakura Wakamiya
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Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura-Ofuna
29 reviews
Kamakura
Travel Blogs from Kamakura, Japan
Trip down memory lane (part II)
Even genoeg van de grote drukke stad, dus ontsnapt naar Kamakura, ten zuiden van Tokyo. Kamakura was ooit de hoofdstad van Japan (Kyoto en Nara ook en nu is het dus Tokyo - lijkt wel of iedere stad deze titel ooit heeft gehad...) en hierdoor staan er nog ...
Kamakura
Today we went back to Kamakura where there is a series of old lochs from the time Kamakura was the capital city. The lochs failed and there were many ships from China that smashed into the shore. This was fun to explore at low tide. You can pick up shards ...
Kamakura!
... I've ever had! It just melted in the mouth. Saturday was our day "off" and some of us traveled to Kamakura, the ancient capital of Japan. It is famous for many shrines and temples. We were greeted by a group of university students who were looking ...
Last day in Japan
... been awesome and Ive created some great memories, seen some wonderful sights and eaten some interesting chow! Took a trip to kamakura, full of temples and shrines, then the imperial palace. The sheer size of tokyo is scary, a guaranteed keep fit ...
Kamakura
... the oceanside town of Kamakura. Kamakura is home to dozens of shrines and temples and the Great Buddha: Before leaving for Kamakura, I met the guys for breakfast at the hotel buffet. Just before leaving dad's old friend Noburo showed up. I ...
The Pagonas' Go to Japan
... plenty of sights, and experiencing different aspects of Japanese culture. It was a great opportunity for me to see more of a Japan as well, seeing as most of my experience thus far has been limited to my small city of Shizuoka. This being ...
Obamacha Ice cream anyone?
... -san and Morokuma-san, Junko and Michelle used to go on great monthly outings together. We have many fond memories of Japan. While in Kamakura, we hatched a plan to visit other friends who live near Kyoto 345.5 kilometres (214.7 miles) to the east. ...
Oops...
... , we thank her with a domo arigato when she leaves. We stay on the train and it manages to take us all the way through to Kamakura without any other drama. A thing we've noticed, everyone sleeps on the trains. We had a whole row in front of us, all with ...
Day Trip to Kamakura
We take a weekend trip to visit Tokyo again, and also Kamakura. Kamakura is another old capital that is home to many beautiful temples, as well as a really big buddha. Our timing was quite good, as it happened to be a weekend where families were ...
Kamakura
... little train that winds through the narrow neighborhoods along the coast of the Pacific to the former capital during the Shogun era, Kamakura. Here I visited 3 Buddhist and one Shinto Temple. You cannot imagine how old many of these places are. They are ...
The Great Bike Fiasco
Still remembering our bike riding experiences in Thailand we opted to rent bikes again to get around Kamakura. Unfortunately the traffic proved to be pretty hairy and some of the better trails between temples were made inaccessible by an excess of ...
Temples, temples, and yet more temples
... transported to our destination. The train was very spacious and tidy, much better than any of the planes we'd been on. Once at Kamakura we headed for our first temple, and I can't remember the name of it because we have been to so many. Anyway, ...
The Day that I felt like I was about to Die
... fact that it had been raining pretty consistently in Tokyo and the areas around it and that it would probably be muddy. Oh well. Kamakura is basically a small coastal town that made a name as the Kyoto of Eastern Japan. It has a large variety of ...
A Saturday off WOW!
... Kamakura. Thankfully Roy and Ian weren't sick of temples yet, if they were then they would be after this day. Kamakura was the old capital of Japan and is affectionately known as a little Kyoto due to the amount of temples etc plus The Great Buddha. ...
Kanji: En japonés el corazón se pierde al olvidar.
Basureru. Así se dice olvidar en japonés y al escribirlo se usan dos símbolos KANJI: perder y corazón. Japonés es de los idiomas más difíciles de dominar, además de hablarlo hay que escribirlo, lo cual significa aprender tres escrituras: ...
Kamakura
... .m. or so and had breakfast at either Mister Donut or the Bakery and headed to Fujisawa to get on the Enoden,an old train, to go to Kamakura. Our first stop was the ocean. There is a nice beach with a look out on a hill that we went too. Jess put her feet ...
Male Kyoto
O Kamakure sa hovori, ze je to male Kyoto. Neviem teda este ako vypada Kyoto, ale asi to bude tiez nieco v horach s velkym poctom starych chramov a svatin. No v kazdom pripade mi tu sanka nepadla. Nehovorim, ze chramove komplexy v Kamakure ...
Another Hot One
... going to really control the Japanese government, the feudal lords began fighting for control. The first family to gain control made Kamakura it's military capital. They built a number of beautiful zen temples in the region. However, because of the heat ...
Kamakura
... the train ride took 20 minutes to get to Fujisawa and then we got onton the Enoden Line, one of the oldest trains, that goes on the street for a bit and runs next to the ocean all the way to Kamakura. I will write stuff along the way. It was a great ...
Kamakura
Kamakura is only an hour southwest of Tokyo along the coast, but it's a wonderfully different world. It was the capital of Japan in the feudal Muromachi Period, and so is filled with beautiful temples and shrines, gardens, and remains an important center ...
Dagtrip Kamakura
... arriveren we op onze bestemming en de zon heet ons van harte welkom. Als eerste bekijken we één van de belangrijkste tempels van Kamakura, Engakuji. Wel van een afstandje, want ook hier vragen ze wat entreegeld (om alleen maar dichtbij te komen) en die ...
The Morbidly Obese Man From Kamakura
Today I went to Kamakura, a small town about an hour and a half from Tokyo. The main attraction of this tiny town is the Giant Buddha, Daibutsu. It is the biggest and most awesomeness in all the land, the land being Japan. Me and all my Jap nerd buddies ...
Kamakura
... had seen them! I had been in contact with them via email before coming to Japan and we had arranged to meet at Kamakura, one of Japan's old capitals where they would show us around. We had arranged to meet them where the last carriage of the train ...
Kamakura
We awoke and headed south on the Japan rail to a small seaside town called Kamakura. Kamakura is home to many things, but the thing that was most endearing to us was the pleasant beach town vibe (the gigantic Buddha is ...
Kamakura
... train to Kamakura and we were both wet and cold as it was a very blustery day (our 100yen umbrellas didn't last very long!) Kamakura is lovely and full of shrines and temples as well as the Daibatsu (a very big budha!) but unfortunately we only got to ...
ancienne ville iomperiale de kamakura
... a propose soit le mont fuji.. en fait c est elle a la base.. un lookout et prendre des photos si c est pas trop nueageux ou kamakura.. deja point de vue coup, disctance.. j ai choisi kamakura.. en fait la j ecris depuis kyoto.. faut le voir avant.. car ...
Do starodavneho Japonskeho hlavneho mesta
Dnes idem s Inadanom, Noborum a Kazukou do starodavneho hlavneho mesta Japonska - Kamakura. Toto mesto bolo zalozene Samurajom, ktory porazil Cingischana ktory sem pritiahol z Mongolska. Mesto ma vybornu polohu na obrannu vojnu, pretoze je obkolesene z ...
Our day trip with a bad ankle to Kamakura
We took a day trip out to Kamakura, unfortunately Peter had sprained his ankle so couldnt walk on it too much so we concentrated our time in Hase (a little town that is part of the Kamakura area). We started off at the Great Buddha of Kamakura which was ...
Day trip
An hour outside of Tokyo takes me to a city called Kamakura. It is an old capital of Japan and since I know that Kyoto is an old capital, it makes me wonder how many 'old' capitals there are. It is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains on 3 sides and ...