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Kamakura

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Japan's first samurai capital, a temple town folded into wooded valleys between the hills and the sea. A bronze Buddha that lost its roof to a tsunami and kept sitting, a war god's shrine atop a cherry-lined avenue, and the northern valleys where Zen first took root in Japan.

Available Walks

The Great Buddha and Hase
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The Great Buddha and Hase

4.4780 min1.5 km
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu and the Samurai Capital
2

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu and the Samurai Capital

4.6480 min3 km
The Temple Valleys: Zen in the Northern Hills
3

The Temple Valleys: Zen in the Northern Hills

4.24100 min3 km

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