Kamakura, Japan Travel Blogs

Trip down memory lane (part II)
Apr 11, 2006

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
Jun 3, 2007

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!
Oct 7, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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
Jun 15, 2007 (11 photos)

... 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
Jan 18, 2006 (7 photos)

... 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 haven ...

The Pagonas' Go to Japan
Jan 14, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Kamakura
May 31, 2007

... 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 ...

Day Trip to Kamakura
Nov 11, 2007 (19 photos)

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 ...

The Great Bike Fiasco
Jun 16, 2007 (4 photos)

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
May 24, 2009

... 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, ...

A Saturday off WOW!
Sep 17, 2006 (12 photos)

... . 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. I hadn't ...

Kanji: En japonés el corazón se pierde al olvidar.
May 5, 2007 (37 photos)

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: kanji, hiragana y ...

Kamakura
Apr 8, 2006 (15 photos)

... .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
Feb 2, 2008 (40 photos)

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 ...

Kamakura
Mar 26, 2006 (25 photos)

... 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 day.

Kamakura
Jun 20, 2004 (8 photos)

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 ...

The Morbidly Obese Man From Kamakura
Mar 8, 2007 (2 photos)

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
Nov 22, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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 stopped ...

Kamakura
Apr 8, 2008

... 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 see ...

Do starodavneho Japonskeho hlavneho mesta
May 17, 2009 (32 photos)

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 ...

ancienne ville iomperiale de kamakura
Jul 24, 2007 (20 photos)

... 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 apres ...

Our day trip with a bad ankle to Kamakura
Jan 11, 2007 (66 photos)

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
Oct 20, 2006 (3 photos)

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 ...

By The Sea
Feb 25, 2008 (16 photos)

... , as Places Of Historical Importance in Japan are wont to do.  It's also the home of the famous Giant Buddha of Kamakura, who sits serenely in a temple courtyard at the base of a hill. The town of Kamakura itself is surrounded by hills, and isn't ...

Week7.3 - Kamakura
Oct 14, 2008 (79 photos)

Sightseeing in Kamakura. Great Buddha and so on...

First Shrine Visit for New Year, Hatsumode
Jan 2, 2009 (12 photos)

... charms or amulets) are bought, and the old ones are returned to the shrine so they can be burned. So I went to Kamakura, Tsurugaokamachiman, this shrine, which used to be also a Buddhist temple and far bigger than today, was originally built in 1063 by ...

Kamakura
Jun 2, 2008 (18 photos)

We arrived into Kamakura around 3pm and we headed straight for a hiking trail that we knew about stopping on the way to pick up some delicious meat filled dumplings. The walk was very wet and muddy and by the time we had finished it was dark...we were ...

Kamakura and Shibuya
Jan 23, 2007 (8 photos)

... . After the cave we had to get going to get back to Tokyo so we bought a ticket for the cool old fashioned train the goes through Kamakura for 190 yen one way back to Kamakura station and the JR line. We arrived home just in time to get back to school, do ...

Kamakura and Yokohama
Mar 7, 2006 (4 photos)

Yokohama - Japan's second largest city. The cleanest Chinatown in the world - and possibly the biggest ferris wheel EVER! Kamakura - the capital of Japan from 1185 to 1333. The book said that the trail was 2.2km long - somehow it took us about 2.5 hours ...

Die große Buddha-Figur...
Nov 21, 2009

... wir auf dem Weg nach Kamakura. Kamakura ist eine südlich von Tokyo an der Sagami Buch gelegene, von Bergen umgebene Hafenstadt. Kamakura hat einen schönen breiten Strand, der als Ausflugsziel beliebt. Hintergrund ist die Nähe zu Tokyo. In Kamakura ...