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  • Juichininzuka
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Inamuragasaki 1-453
    "This stone monument is located a three-minute walk from Enoshima Electric Railway During Nitta Yoshisada's attack on Kamakura on May 19, 1333, Odachi Munetsuji led a large invasion force up the Gokurakuji Kiritoshi Road, but was defeated in the Hojo clan's ferocious counterattack. According to legend, his 11 remaining subordinates committed suicide by sword on this spot; their bodies were buried here and an eleven-faced Kannon statue erected on the spot, and thus it is called the ""Juichininzuka,"" or ""Grave of the 11."""
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  • Grave of Hino Toshimoto
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Kajiwara 5-9
    The grave of Hino Toshimoto, once a close aide to Emperor Go-Daigo, is located a 15-minute walk from JR Kamakura Station. Hino participated in Emperor Go-Daigo's plot to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate in 1324 but escaped capture and avoided execution in turn. He once again plotted to overthrow the government in 1331 but was discovered and captured again, this time being executed at Kuzuharagaoka on June 3 of the following year. His grave was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1927.
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  • Sanmon (Main Gate)
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Yamanouchi
    This gate is located on the grounds of the Engakuji temple in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The large triple gate is said to represent the three liberations -emptiness, formlessness, and desirelessness - and, as a gateway to the temple, is said to remove earthly desires. Built by the poet Seisetsu Shucho in 1785, according to records, the framed sign bearing the temple's name on the gate was given by Emperor Fushimi. The gate has been designated an Important Cultural Property by Kanagawa Prefecture and its upper floor enshrines a statue of an eleven-faced Kannon, the twelve divine generals, and sixteen arhats.
  • Toshoji Temple Ruins
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Komachi 3-10 Area
    This ruined temple, the family temple of the Hojo shogun regent clan, is said to have been built by Hojo Yasutoki and is also the spot where the Hojo clan committed suicide by sword, ending the Kamakura shogunate. The ruins of the temple have been confirmed through archeological surveys. At the present time, the adjacent path leading to the Harakiri Yagura, the cave where Hojo Takatoki committed suicide, is closed because a nearby stone monument is in danger of collapsing.
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  • Kewaizaka Kiridoshi Pass
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Ogigayatsu 4
    This was the site of a fierce battle on May 18, 1333 during Nitta Yoshisada's attack on Kamakura. One of the seven entry points to Kamakura through the mountains, it provided access from Musashi through Kuzuhara-gaoka. As the main gateway to the Musashi area, the Keiwaizaka Pass was important for the defense of Kamakura.
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  • Yosano Akiko Poetry Monument
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Hase 4-2-28
    "A poetry monument on the precincts of Kotokuin Temple, home to the Great Buddha of Kamakura. It's engraved with one of Akiko's poems in her own handwriting. The left side of the monument is engraved with Japanese writing that says ""In Celebration of the 700th Anniversary of the Construction of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, April 1952, Ajinomoto Co., Ltd."" The right side is engraved with the poem in Romanized script, along with an English translation and the monument's story in English."
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  • Kangetsudo Hall
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Hase 4-2-28
    A sub-temple on the precincts of Kotokuin Temple, home of the Great Buddha of Kamakura and the 23rd stop among the 33 sites sacred to the Bodhisattva Kannon. It was reportedly built at the Korean Royal Palace in Hanyang in the middle of the 15th century. In 1924 it was moved from the private residence of Kisei Sugino in Meguro, Tokyo and donated to the temple. The president of Yamaichi Goshi Gaisha (later Yamaichi Securities), he owned it at that time. Currently, Kangetsudo enshrines an image of the Bodhisattva Kannon thought to date from the late Edo period.
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  • Remains of Yofukuji Temple
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    Kanagawa Kamakura-shi Nikaido 209
    The site of the temple built by Minamoto no Yoritomo located about 1.8 kilometers northeast of JR Kamakura Station in Mido, Nikaido, Kamakura City. A flat area about 100 meters east-west and about 200 meters north-south surrounded by forest is thought to be the center of the precincts; about 88,000 square meters, including the surrounding hills and valley have been designated as a historic site.
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  • Ishihara Yujiro Memorial Monument
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    Kanagawa Miura-gun Hayamamachi Horiuchi 1025 Morito Jinja Uchi
    A stone monument at Morito-jinja Shrine, the guardian sanctuary of Hayama. Located at the entrance to the beach behind the shrine, the bronze statue of Yujiro is inscribed with a poem by Ishihara Shintaro in his own script. Many fans still visit this memorial to Yujiro Ishihara, an actor who spent his youth in Shonan and loved the area immensely.
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  • Minamoto no Sanetomo Mishirushizuka
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    Kanagawa Hadano-shi Higashi Tawara 1018-2
    Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, was assassinated by his nephew Kugyo in 1219. Kugyo was himself killed by a retainer of Miura Yoshimura, and Sanetomo's head disappeared after that. It is said that his head was later found and interred at Mishirushizuka. The Sanetomo Festival is held every year on November 23rd at Mishirushizuka and Tahara Furusato Park.
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  • Pride: Okamoto Kanoko Literature Monument
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    Kanagawa Kawasaki-shi Takatsu-ku Futago 1-4-1 Futa Ne Jinja
    "Founded in 1641, Futago-jinja Shrine was the village shrine of the former Futago Village, where it was known as Shinmei-sha. This monument on the precincts is a white piece of modern art that looks like a fantastic floating swan. Called ""Pride,"" the literary monument is dedicated to Kanoko Okamoto. It was erected in 1962 by admirers from Kawasaki and around Japan."
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  • Suwarashi Stone-age Historical Remains
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    Kanagawa Sagamihara-shi Midori-ku Suwarashi 568-2
    Ruins located along National Route 412 in Suwarashi, Sagami Lake. It was selected as a national Historic Site in 1930. Stone axes, stone tools, earthenware, etc. have been excavated from the sites of the mirror with a handle-shaped stone dwellings estimated to be from the late Jomon period about 4,000 years ago. You can also see the remnants, burning mark of a hexagonal fire pit cut in the center. It's valuable for research that helps understand life in those times.
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  • Monument to Kempel and Barney
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Motohakone
    This stone monument honoring Japanese culture was made by the British trader Cyril Montague-Barney in 1911. Originally located in Barney's villa on Lake Ashi, it was later moved to this location. The stone monument quotes the text of a book about Japan written by Engelbert Kempel, a German doctor who came to Japan at the end of the 17th century. There is another stone monument next to it that honors both Barney and Kempel.
  • Monument of Hakone Magouta Song
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Motohakone
    "This stone monument is located on the Hakone Old Highway that runs parallel to the Tokaido Highway. Until the present Tokaido was built, narrow and steep mountain roads were traveled by horse or manpower. It is just up a steep hill from Hatajuku, and has long been a resting place for people hiking the mountain road. The stone monument is inscribed with the phrase ""Even horse can travel 32 kilometers to Hakone, but you cannot pass the uncrossable Oi River,"" sung by a packhorse driver crossing the mountain."
  • Sainokawara
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Motohakone
    "This group of stone Buddhas and towers are located on the shore of Lake Ashi. It was once said that the Hakone Pass was one of the most difficult points on the Tokaido Highway, and that it was even a part of Hell. People who prayed for safe travels believed in Jizo, and many stone Buddhas and pagodas were built along the shore of Lake Ashi to pray for safety. The name comes from the fact that the stone towers along the lakeside look like ""Sai no kawara"" or children's limbo in Hell. Many of them were lost as time went on, leaving them in their present form."
  • Taiko-no-Iwaburo (Stone Bathtub)
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Sokokura
    A naturally formed stone bath located along the Jakotsugawa River between Kowakudani Station and Miyanoshita Station on the Hakone Tozan Railway. A natural hot spring wells up from the river bed causing steam to hang over the river in places. Legend holds that Toyotomi Hideyoshi used the bath to heal the weariness of his soldiers as he attacked Odawara. While you can't currently bath in this stone tub the Taiko-no-Taki Waterfall is located nearby and it's a great place to visit in the autumn to take pictures of the changing fall colors. There's also a well-maintained trail making this a great place to take a stroll.
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  • Oi-no-Taira Monument
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Hatajuku
    This monument is located near the Amazake-chaya Bus Stop, a 23-minute bus ride from the Hakone Tozan Railway Hakone-Yumoto Station. The stone monument stands alongside the Amazake Chaya Teahouse and the Old Hakone Road Museum. The monument is inscribed with a waka poem composed by the monk Shinran as he left the Kanto region, 'I leave behind my ailing child as I journey to the heavens but my heart remains with you.' Shinran had returned to Kyoto along with his disciple and after returning left his teachings of Kanto with his student. The monument is called the Oi-no-Taira as he left behind his Oi, or trunk used by mountain ascetics to carry their Buddhist ritual implements, as a memento.
  • Hatajuku Honjin Myoga-ya Ruins
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Hatajuku
    This site is located near the Honjin-ato Bus Stop, a 15-minute bus ride from the Hakone Tozan Railway Hakone-Yumoto Station. It was the mansion of the former village leader as was called the Myoga-ya. The building was destroyed in a fire that swept the village in 1912 but the garden still remains with its original appearance. During the Edo period the house was used as lodging by feudal lords and court officials travelling to and from Tokyo and at the end of the Edo period the American Consul General Townsend Harris stayed in the house and viewed the garden. In the center of the garden there's a bored-out stump and it's said passing through it grants you with longevity.
  • Sarusuberi-zaka
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    Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Hatajuku
    Just a short walk from the Sarusuberi-zaka Bus Stop which is accessible by bus from the Hakone Tozan Railway Hakone-Yumoto Station. The slippery cobblestone paving on this park of the Old Hakone Road made with one of the more perilous parts of the journey. The name (Sarusuberi meaning Sliding Monkey) comes from the road being so steep that even a monkey would lose its footing. The Old Hakone Road, also called the Eight Leagues of Hakone, was a difficult route with a number of hills and even now you can still see a number of monkeys in the area. The treacherous terrain was even written about in the Shinpen Sagami no Kuni Fudoki Ko, a regional history written in 1841, stating that it was 'Particularly dangerous, named as such as even monkeys have difficultly climbing it.'
  • Saimyoji Temple Historic Site Park
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    Kanagawa Ashigarakami-gun Matsudamachi Matsudasoshi

    私は、毎年桜の時期にこの最明寺史跡公園へ 行くのをたのしみにしています。兎に角、 ”桜の時期は最高！”で、まるで”桃源郷”です。 この公園に行く時は、紅枝垂れ桜の開花情報 を調べて行くのですが、池の廻りの紅枝垂れ 桜と反対側の山に咲くオオヤマザクラのコラ ボが最高です。又、桃や黄色いレンギョウも 素晴らしいのですが、今年はレンギョウが早 かったのか、紅枝垂れの咲く時期に合わせて 行ったら、もうレン...

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Kanagawa prefecture acts as an extension of the Tokyo metropolis that spills over into coastal towns, most notably Yokohama city, heavily populated and known for its Chinatown and seaside attractions. Just the right distance for a day trip out of Tokyo, Kanagawa is home to some of Tokyo’s most accessible beaches, including around Kamakura, best known for its Big Buddha. Visitors can also travel a little farther afield for a weekend at Hakone onsen town.

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