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Kamakura Slideshow
Kamakura
Travel Blogs from Kamakura, Japan
Kamakura
Yesterday Adam and I went down to Kamakura which is a small town along the coast of Japan. The area is known for a great number of shinto and buddist shrines as well as a 44ft tall bronze statue of buddah that dates to the 1200's. We saw a wedding at one ...
Kamakura and Enoshima
... of our final days of this visit to go to Kamakura, the capital from 1192-1333, from which the first Shogun (Yoritomo Minamoto) ruled Japan. Kamakura is south of Tokyo and west of Yokohama on the coast. Bernd had been there once before on a day trip from ...
Hasedera Ajisai
... is one of the tallest Buddha stature in Japan. Hasedera enshrines also for Daikoku who is the seven luckいy gods of Japan in Kamakura. The temple has great garden and Ajisai road, so when you visit this temple at June you can enjoy not only ...
Kamakura
Etwa 50km südlich von Tokyo. Es ist ein ziemlich populärer Ort für Tokyoties am Wochenende. Ich war am 25.Maerz dort, gerade zum Beginn der Kirschblüten Zeit. Die Japaner spinnen total wenn die Kirchbäume blühen. Alle mit den grossen ...
Kamakura Daibutsu
Here is the Kamakura Great Buddha, Daibutsu. It is the one of the greatest statue in Japan. Just see and feel it. ...
Old Imperial Kyoto
Click on the photo to see pictures of Kyoto, Yokohama, Tokyo, Osaka, Kamakura, and Hakone - Lake Ashi area. Japan Trip October ...
Dagtrip naar Kamakura
... het station van Tokyo, vandaar uit met de trein naar Kamakura, een ritje van ongeveer een uur. Ooit was Kamakura de hoofdstad van Japan, tijdens deze periode werd het boeddhisme in Japan ook steeds populairder, en in Kamakura is dat ...
Kamakura
... of a nicer quality than we had seen in many of the areas around temples. Many of them were entirely filled with Kamakura-bori, which is a beautiful carved laquerware- They are typically a deep lustrous red carving, a lot of trays, mirrors, and ...
Kamakura
... nice place, went to Kencho-ji, then trek on other hills, also nice. I walk in the city to the station, pass through the big shrine Tsurugaoka - too noisy. Kamakura shrines are the best, because there are only few visitors, and there are outside the city ...
Day trip to giant Buddha
... can probably expect - was to buy the right tickets. The ticket machines also "speak English" but Kamakura was not shown anywhere - but luckily Japan Railways (JR) employ nice girls that appraoch passengers that look confused (so essentially the ...
Beaches and Buddhas
Witnessed one of my best friends put her feet in the ocean for the first time... ...
Returning to Kamakura
... than it sounds!), buns with sweet bean paste, etc. When we arrived at the station we also bought some of Kamakura's famous pigeon cookies, which are just crispy bird shaped Christmas cutouts cookies that are quite tasty. Obviously the little bowl ...
Kamakura, une des capitales du Japon
... est l'un des anciennes capitales du pays, la capitale ayant déménagé plusieurs fois. D'abord à Nara, puis à Kyoto, ensuite Kamakura, avant Tokyo, si ma memoire est bonne. Donc nous avons pu voir un certain nombre de temples ( Engakuji, ...
Kamakura, Japan: Meeting the Daibatsu
The cataclysmic Genpei War in 1192 created a new form of military government in Kamakura, where, Minamoto Yoritomo established himself as the country's first shogun. His bloodline would rule Japan for approximately 135 years and since ...
Kamakura
While on our trip to Tokyo, we decided we should take the opportunity to travel to Kamakura which is located in Kanagawa Prefecture, south-southwest of Tokyo. Usually when you are headed to a famous site in Japan, you can just simply follow the crowd out ...
The Big Buddha by the Sea
... trips up to this point, Kamakura was a relatively short distance from Tokyo - less than 1 hr from Shinjuku station. Kamakura was a little overwhelming in figuring out which temples to visit and how to get to certain places. I basically just ...
Holiday by the Sea
... off at the hotel we catch the train to Kamakura to walk along some interesting tourist streets and visit the Kamakura temple, and The Great Buddha. The train to and from Enoshima is a heritage train which winds through between houses. In ...
Visiting shrines in Kamakura
Today Marina and I took the 1.5 hour train ride out of Tokyo to visit Kamakura. Kamakura was the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogan. It is very famous for its Zen monasteries and temples. There is also a very famous huge Buddha there which is seen ...