Best Shrines And Temples In Kamakura-shi
Here're best Shrines And Temples in Kamakura-shi. We released a ranking of reviews about Shrines And Temples posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Kamakura-shi.
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Kamakura is renown for hydrangea in this season, and Meigetsuin Temple is one of the most popular places. There're 2500 trees of hydrangea in beautiful colors admired as 'Meigetsuin Blue'. You can meet the beautiful scenery of rainy season, together with the bamboo grove.◎To enjoy seeing and taking pictures of hydrangeas enough, it'll be better for you to visit as soon as Meigetsuin Temple opens, or about one hour before it closes.
Name
Meigetsuin Temple
Address
189 Yamanouchi, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-24-3437
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there
10 min walk from Kitakamakura Station. 7 min by bus from Kamakura Station to Meigetsuin Temple. No parking area.
Parking
No parking area
Myogetsuin Temple is the most famous as a hydrangea temple in Kamakura, but Hase-dera is also a great spot of many hydrangeas. You can enjoy beautiful hydrangeas, and let's try to find smiling Ryoen Jizo images and a big Nagomi Jizo.
Name
Hase-dera Temple
Address
3-11-2 Hase, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-6300
Hours
8:00-17:00
How to get there
5 min walk from Hase Station of Enoden. 5 min walk from JR Hasekan'non Station. By car, 50 min from Yokohama city. Toll parking area is available.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
The path in bamboo grove wrapped in quietness. Looking up the bamboo in the sky, there's the play of sunlight through them. They're so beautiful that I want to watch them for a longer time. And, green tea and Japanese sweets to eat with peaceful minds in this garden. You can see also camellia with bamboo till around April.◎Kamakura Station East Gate bus stop No.5. Jomyoji bus stop, walk 3min, Entrance fee: 200yen, green tea and sweets required more 500yen.
Name
Houkoku-ji Temple
Address
2-7-4 Jomyoji, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0762
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there
By car, 10min from Asahina IC, 7min from Kamakura Station. By bus, 8min from Kamakura Station, get off at 'Jomyoji Temple', then walk 3min.
Kamakura's symbol and well-known second statue of Buddha of Kotoku-in. It struck by disasters many times, and there's few materials to know its birth. It attracts us mysteriously.
Name
Kotokuin
Address
4-2-28 Hase, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0703
Hours
8:00-17:30
How to get there
This temple, located in quiet North Kamakura, is famous for a great writer Natsume Soseki's visiting. Going through the temple gate which was written in a novel 'Mon 門', the orderly precinct has had the historical atmosphere since the ancient times. They hold various events of Zen meditation, why don't you join?◎Entrance Fee: adult 300yen child 100yen Access: 1min walk from Kitakamakura Station of JR Yokosuka Line. Zen meditation for dawn, Saturdays, Sundays and students.
Name
Engaku-ji Temple
Address
409 Yamanouchi, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0478
Hours
8:00-16:30
How to get there
In Kamakura, here's a spot with the strongest energy for success and better fortune in life. The precinct is wrapped with sacred atmosphere, and through the approach with many torii gates and red dedicated flags, there're a worship hall and a main shrine. I like the mood with many Oinari-san (goddess of farm products that is symbolized as a fox) and moss-covered nature.◎20 min walk from JR Kamakura Station's East Gate. Or, get on a bus from Kamakura Station to Haseoyato. Sasuke Inari Shrine and Ugafuku Shrine famous for Zeniarai Benzaiten (money-cleaning goddess) are located very close, so you must visit together.
Name
Sasuke Inari Shrine
Address
2-22-12 Sakuke, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from JR Kamakura Station. By bus, 5min from Kamakura Station's West Gate, get off at Haseoto, then walk 5min.
Although it's a small temple you can walk through in a minute, there're many seasonal flowers here and there in the precinct. These well-kept flowers and plants take us to the otherworldly place.
Name
Daigyo-ji Temple
Address
1-9-28 Komachi, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
3 min walk from JR Kamakura Statioin. 40 min by car from Yokohama Station. Parking area is available.
Jojuin Temple has gave up the hydrangeas though, you don't have to be disappointed. You can see the whole scenery of Kamakura Bay more safety and leisurely than before. Please enjoy the view from Gokurakuji-saka Kiridoshi street that is nearest to the sea!
Name
Jojuin Temple
Address
1-1-5 Gokurakuji, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min walk from Gokurakuji Station of Enoshima Electric Train. 50 min by car from Yokohama city. Nearby toll parking area is available.
