Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Kamakura, Japan

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 7.6 km
Ascend 267 m
Descend 273 m

Explore Kamakura in Japan with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in KamakuraIndividual Sights in Kamakura

Sight 1: Genjiyama Park

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Genjiyama Park is a city park (wind park) located in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 源氏山公園 (鎌倉市) (JA)

551 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine

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Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine

Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine , popularly known simply as Zeniarai Benten, is a Shinto shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. In spite of its small size, it is the second most popular spot in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture after Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. Zeniarai Benzaiten is popular among tourists because the waters of a spring in its cave are said to be able to multiply the money washed in it. The object of worship is a syncretic kami which fuses a traditional spirit called Ugafukujin (宇賀福神) with the Buddhist goddess of Indian origin Sarasvati, known in Japanese as Benzaiten. The shrine is one of the minority in Japan which still shows the fusion of native religious beliefs and foreign Buddhism which was normal before the Meiji restoration. Zeniarai Benzaiten used to be an external massha of Ōgigayatsu's Yazaka Daijin (八坂大神), but became independent in 1970 under its present name.

Wikipedia: Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine (EN)

535 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Sasuke Inari Shrine

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Sasuke Inari ShrineHouze from San Francisco / CC BY-SA 2.0

Sasuke Inari Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Kamakura and the site of the Hidden Village of Kamakura. It is located very near the Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine.

Wikipedia: Sasuke Inari Shrine (EN)

1069 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 4: Kamakura Museum of History and Culture

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The Kamakura History and Culture Exchange Center is an exhibition facility similar to the Kamakura City History Museum, which opened on May 15, 2017 (Heisei 29). At the planning stage, it was tentatively named "Kamakura History and Cultural Exchange Center".

Wikipedia: 鎌倉歴史文化交流館 (JA), Website

446 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: 巽神社

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巽神社

Tatsumi Shrine (たつみじんじゃ)は、Kanagawa 県鎌倉市の Shrine。

Wikipedia: 巽神社 (鎌倉市) (JA)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Jufuku-ji

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Kikokuzan Kongō Jufuku Zenji (亀谷山金剛寿福禅寺), usually known as Jufuku-ji, is a temple of the Kenchō-ji branch of the Rinzai sect and the oldest Zen temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Ranked third among Kamakura's prestigious Five Mountains, it is number 24 among the Thirty-Three Kamakura Kannon pilgrimage temples and number 18 of the Kamakura Nijūyon Jizō (鎌倉二十四地蔵) temples. Its main object of worship is Shaka Nyorai.

Wikipedia: Jufuku-ji (EN)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Eishōji

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Eishōji 三人日 / CC BY-SA 3.0

Eisho-ji (英勝寺) is a Jōdo-shū temple in Ogigayatsu, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, and is the sole nunnery in Kamakura. The mountain name is Tokozan.

Wikipedia: Eishō-ji (EN)

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Jokomyoji Temple

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Jokomyoji Temple

Jokomyo-ji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect Sennyu-ji school located in Ogigadani, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its sango (literally, "mountain name"), which is the title prefixed to the name of a Buddhist temple, is Senkokuzan. The kaiki (patron of the temple in its founding) was Nagatoki HOJO. The kaisan (founder) was Shina. The principal image is Amida Nyorai (Amitabha Tathagata). It is said that Takauji ASHIKAGA was close to the Hojo clan and the Ashikaga clan and was confined in this temple just before he raised an army against Emperor Godaigo. It is the 82nd number of the Shin Shikoku Hachi-hachi Reijo (the 88 sacred places in the Kanto region) in Togoku.

Wikipedia: 浄光明寺 (JA)

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Myo-an-ji

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Myo-an-ji

Myodenji Temple is a temple of Nichiren Buddhism located in Ogigayatsu, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Tahotani (formerly Mt. Masanobu). The former main mountain is Mimatsu Reneiji Temple. It belongs to the parent teacher dharma. The precincts are said to be the ruins of Izumigaya Tahoji Temple, which was opened by Shinobi in the 2nd year of Kocho (1262).

Wikipedia: 妙伝寺 (鎌倉市) (JA)

1324 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 10: Tsurugaoka Hachimangü Shrine

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangü Shrine

Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮) is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The shrine is a cultural center of the city of Kamakura and serves as the venue of many of its most important festivals with two museums.

Wikipedia: Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (EN), Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Kamakura Museum of National Treasures

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Kamakura Museum of National Treasures

The Kamakura Museum of National Treasures or Kamakura Museum or Kamakura National Treasure House is a museum located on the grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The museum houses around 4800 objects from the Kamakura region including sculptures, paintings and industrial art objects. Most of these works originate from the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, spanning from the 12th to the 16th century. Some of the items were produced in China and imported to Japan.

Wikipedia: Kamakura Museum of National Treasures (EN), Website

661 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: 宝戒寺

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宝戒寺

Kinryūzan Shakuman-in Endon Hōkai-ji (金龍山釈満院円頓宝戒寺) is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Often called Hagidera (萩寺), or "bush-clover temple", because those flowers are numerous in its garden, its existence is directly linked to a famous tragedy that on July 4, 1333 wiped out almost the entire Hōjō clan, ruler of Japan for 135 years. The temple was founded expressly to enshrine the souls of the 870 members of the clan who, in accordance with the samurai code of honor, committed suicide on that day at their family temple (bodaiji) of Tōshō-ji to escape defeat. Together with ancient Sugimoto-dera, Hōkai-ji is the only temple of the Tendai denomination in Kamakura. Formerly a branch temple of the great Kan'ei-ji, after its destruction it became a branch of Enryaku-ji.

Wikipedia: Hōkai-ji (EN)

1737 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 13: Kakuonji temple

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Kakuonji temple

Kakuonji is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect of the Senjoji sect located in Nikaido, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is called Mt. Washibeng. The honzon is the Yakushi Sanson, the Kaiki is Hojo Sadatoki, and the Kaizan is Chikai Shinkei. It is a temple that gathers the reverence of successive generations of the Hojo family of the Kamakura shogunate. Located in the back of the valley north of the Kanazawa Highway connecting Sagami and Musashi Provinces, the temple grounds and the surrounding area are well preserved, and it is said to be one of the temples that best retains the remnants of Kamakura before urbanization. The precincts are designated as a national historic site.

Wikipedia: 覚園寺 (JA)

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