Last week, we visited Kamakura with a few of Ronjie's friends from school. Kamakura is a few hours away from Hon-Atsugi by train; we got a ¥1,140 Enoshima-Kamakura train pass which allowed us unlimited rides on the train routes to & from Hon-Atsugi and Kamakura (and in between stations) for a whole day.
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snow on the mountains
(the view of the mountains from the bus stop near our apartment) |
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tulips at the Fujisawa station
(at the Enoden line, waiting for the train to Kamakura) |
Kamakura!
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the first of many torii I would see that day |
First stop was
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura's most important shrine.
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torii on the walkway to the shrine |
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the path is lined with cherry trees
(gusto ko bumalik dito pag sakura season na!) |
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saw an Our Lady of Perpetual Help church along the way |
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rice cakes for sale along the sidewalk |
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another torii |
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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu |
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barrels of sake |
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temizuya |
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had to climb a flight of steps to get to the shrine |
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prayers |
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more prayers |
After visiting the shrine, we had lunch in town. We tried this Chinese noodle restaurant which specialized in dan dan mein (Szechuan noodles). I didn't have dan dan mein (didn't like spicy); I had barbecued pork noodle soup, which tasted and looked like regular Japanese ramen. (Will be blogging separately about the Chinese noodle restaurant. Wait for my next post!)
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saw these Japanese pancakes for sale along the sidewalk during the walk back to the train station |
Headed back to the Kamakura station and took a ride to the Hase station, where we would be getting off to see the Kamakura Daibutsu (Great Buddha).
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the temple grounds where the Daibutsu is located is a 15-minute walk from the Hase station |
The centuries-old
Kamakura Daibutsu has a height of 13.35 meters. It stands (sits) in open air as the temple building which used to house it was destroyed by typhoons and a tidal wave in the 14th & 15th centuries. The Kamakura Daibutsu is the 2nd tallest bronze Buddha statue in Japan.
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for ¥20 you can enter the Daibutsu and see how it looks like from the inside |
We stayed just a while to take photos and sit a bit then headed back to the train station. Last leg of the trip was Enoshima Island. I was already tired by that time so didn't join the group anymore when they walked up and around Enoshima for the island tour. :)
But still managed to goof around on the way home. :D
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at the Katase-Enoshima station |
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