What You Will Do
Explore the historic city of Yokohama and Kanagawa. Yokohama is second largest city of Japan, it’s has world’s largest Chinatown and on of first port which was first opened to foreign trade in 1859 during the self isolation period of Japan. Kamakura once called “Kyoto of Eastern Japan” is a very famous among tourists, its offers numerous temples, shrines and other historical monuments.
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Itinerary
1
Kotoku-in (Great Buddha of Kamakura)
1 hour
The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amitābha, which is one of the most famous icons of Japan. It is also a designated National Treasure, and one of the twenty-two historic sites included in Kamakura's proposal for inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
2
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
2 hours
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The shrine is at the geographical and cultural center of the city of Kamakura, which has largely grown around it and its 1.8 km approach.
3
Hase-dera Temple
1 hour
Around 1300 years ago, two sculptors carved two Kannon statues out of a sacred tree. One of them was enshrined here at Hasedera in Kamakura. It is commonly called “Eleven-headed Kannon” since it has eleven heads on top of its own head. It measures 9.18 meters tall and this makes it one of the largest wooden Buddhist statues in Japan.
4
Kamakura Goro Kamakura Komachi Street Honten
45 minutes
Komachi-dori is, as one would expect, frequently crowded. It's a favorite haunt for daytime TV shows keen to unearth a new noodle shop or find a great bargain, leading inevitably to a spike in visitors with resulting lines of customers waiting to be seated at a popular new place.
It has been calculated that 18 million people come to Komachi-dori every year. Fortunately, the street is traffic controlled and sequestered for pedestrians during the daytime, so there is space to move around. Only delivery and emergency vehicles are allowed to pass through.
5
Enoshima Benten Bridge
30 minutes
This bridge links Enoshima Island to Katase Town in Fujisawa City and it is the only way to go to there.
6
Enoshima Beach
1 hour
Enoshima is a small offshore island, about 4 km (2.5 mi) in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River which flows into the Sagami Bay of Kanagawa Prefecture Administratively, Enoshima is part of the mainland city of Fujisawa, and is linked to the Katase section of that city by a 600-metre-long (2,000 ft) bridge.
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