Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Kamakura, Japan

Gokuraku-ji (極楽寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect located in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1259 by Ninshō (1217-1303) and has been restored and rebuilt many times since then.

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Hase-dera , commonly called the Hase-kannon (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.

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Kosonji Temple is a temple of the Nichiren sect in Hase, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The mountain name is at the time of the mountain. Former Motoyama is Hikiya Myohonji Temple. Ikegami / Tobetsu store law.

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Kōtoku-in (高徳院) is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū sect, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its mountain name is Taiizan (大異山), and its common temple name is Shōjōsen-ji (清浄泉寺).

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Kotokuin is a temple of the Jodo sect located in the Nagatani of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. The main statue is the Great Buddha of Kamakura, a national treasure bronze statue of Amitabha. Officially, it is called Daisenzan Kotokuin Seijosenji. Both Kaiki (founder) and Kaizan (first abbot) are unknown.

Wikipedia: 鎌倉大仏 (JA)

Amanawa Shinmei Shrine was founded in 710 and is the oldest Shinto shrine in Kamakura. It is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu. According to the ancient document History of Amanawa-ji Shinmei-gū kept by the shrine, the founder of the shrine is famous priest Gyōki; a powerful and rich man named Tokitada Someya supported the construction.

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The Kamakura Museum of Literature is a small museum in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, that contains material about writers who have lived, died, or were active in the city of Kamakura itself. The museum displays personal effects, manuscripts, first editions, and documents owned by well over a hundred writers of Japanese literature, including Natsume Sōseki and Kawabata Yasunari, as well as film director Yasujirō Ozu. The villa that hosts the museum, its large garden and its rose garden are also of great interest.

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Enmeiji Temple is a temple of the Jodo sect located in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Hongakuji Temple is the main temple of Nichiren Buddhism in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Myogon. It is also called "Higashi Minobu" because it divided the remains of Nichiren at Kuonji Temple on Mt. Minobu. It is located near Kamakura Station, and across the street from Komachi Oji (Tsuji Kyoho Street) is the Chokozan Myohonji Temple, the main temple of Nichiren Buddhism.

Wikipedia: 本覚寺 (鎌倉市) (JA)

Daigyoji Temple is a single temple of the Nichiren Buddhist sect located in Komachi, Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. It is known as a temple that does not have a specific Dan family and prays for safe birth. The former main temple is Hikiya Myohonji.

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Tatsumi Shrine is a shrine in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Catholic Yukinoshita Church is a Christian Catholic church and cathedral located in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. A church dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. It is a cathedral in the Catholic Diocese of Yokohama, Kanagawa District 4.

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮) is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The shrine is a cultural center of the city of Kamakura and serves as the venue of many of its most important festivals with two museums.

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Kinryūzan Shakuman-in Endon Hōkai-ji (金龍山釈満院円頓宝戒寺) is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Often called Hagidera (萩寺), or "bush-clover temple", because those flowers are numerous in its garden, its existence is directly linked to a famous tragedy that on July 4, 1333 wiped out almost the entire Hōjō clan, ruler of Japan for 135 years. The temple was founded expressly to enshrine the souls of the 870 members of the clan who, in accordance with the samurai code of honor, committed suicide on that day at their family temple (bodaiji) of Tōshō-ji to escape defeat. Together with ancient Sugimoto-dera, Hōkai-ji is the only temple of the Tendai denomination in Kamakura. Formerly a branch temple of the great Kan'ei-ji, after its destruction it became a branch of Enryaku-ji.

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Sugimoto-dera is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the oldest temples in Kamakura and, together with Hōkai-ji, the only one of the Tendai denomination. The temple is Number one of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit. Two of the three statues of goddess Kannon it enshrines are Important Cultural Properties. Sugimotodera is nicknamed Geba Kannon, because horsemen never failed to dismount from their steeds when they passed by. The temple is a branch temple of Hōkai-ji.

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Hōkoku-ji (報国寺) is an old temple in the Kenchō-ji school of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism located in Kamakura, Japan. Famous for its bamboo garden, it is also known as "Bamboo Temple".

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Tōkasan Jōmyō Zenji (稲荷山浄妙寺) is a Zen Buddhist temple of the Rinzai sect, Kenchō-ji school, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Jōmyō-ji is Number Five of the five temples known as Kamakura Gozan, and the only one of the five not founded by a member of the Hōjō clan. Jōmyō-ji has instead, as nearby Zuisen-ji, deep ties with the Ashikaga clan, and was one of the family's funeral temples (bodaiji). For this reason the family's kamon, or crest, is ubiquitous on its premises. The first three characters of its full name mean "Inari mountain", presumably from the hill of the same name where it stands, in its turn named after an ancient Inari myth. Jōmyō-ji has given its name to the surrounding area, the characters for which have been however deliberately changed from 浄妙寺 to 浄明寺.

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