Kamakura (
鎌倉市) is the major city in
Japan, located some 10 km to the north-west from
Zushi. The capital city
Tokyo is in 60 km to the north-east. The population of Kamakura is about 166,100 people (census of 2010). Many people visit Kamakura each year to take a look at its famous buddhist temples and shrines.
The nearest airport Tokyo Intl (IATA: HND) is about 50 km away.
Tourist attractions in it
Hase-dera  (海光山慈照院長谷寺, & #32; Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera), commonly called the Hase-kannon& #32; (長谷観音) is one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for housing a massive wooden statue of Kannon.
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮) 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. It is the venue of many of its most important festivals, and hosts two museums.
Yuigahama& #32; (由比ヶ浜海岸) is a beach near Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The relation between the beach and its neighboring areas is complex. Although Yuigahama is legally the entire 3. 2& #160; km beach that goes from Inamuragasaki, which separates it from Shichirigahama, to Zaimokuza's Iijima cape, which separates it from Kotsubo and the Miura Peninsula, the name is customarily used to indicate the portion west of the Namerigawa river, while the eastern half is called Zaimokuza Beac…
Great Buddha of Kamakura (鎌倉大仏) is a tourist attraction, one of the Colossal sculptures in Kamakura, Japan. It is located: 50 km from Yokohama, 132 km from Tokyo, 720 km from Nagoya.
Is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū sect in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The temple is renowned for its Шаблон: Nihongo, a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amida Buddha which is one of the most famous icons of Japan.
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