Saturday, April 6, 2019

Day Trip to Kamakura - Hasedera Temple

Kamakura is outside Tokyo and can be reached in about 1.5 hours by train.

Located in the coastal town of Kanagawa Prefecture, Kamakura has become a tourist destination. It offers several sights such as  temples, shrines and sand beaches.

The most visited places are  Hasedera Temple, Great Buddha, Hachimangu Shrine, Komachi Street.

Hasedera Temple is 5 minute walk from Hase Station. The temple gound is wide and has lots of trees, sakura, small bamboo garden and a viewing deck overlooking Kamakura beach.








It has a small food store which sells dango ( sweet sticky rice balls) and dumpling.


Spend an hour in this relaxing garden temple.

How to get to Hasedera Temple

take Yamanote line towards Ueno and stop at Shimbashi sta; transfer to Yokosuka line (JO) towards Kurihama , 11 stops to Kamakura Station then  take Enoshima Electric Railway (Enoden for short) bound for Fujisawa;  3 stops to Hase Station; temple is 10 minute walk from Hase station

Entrance: Y300 / adult 

After Hasedera, you can go to Great Buddha; link Great Buddha

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