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(Kamakura / Kamakura) — A seaside town near Tokyo.

Kamakura Review – The City Where Time Slows Down with Every Step Just an hour by train from Tokyo You will enter another world called Kamakura. An old town by the sea that used to be the center of the samurai government during the Kamakura period. But today it has become a resting place for those who are tired of the hustle and bustle. 🛤️ Small streets lined with local sweet shops, quiet cafes and antique shops that look like they came out of the Showa era. You can walk to old temples, shrines hidden in bamboo forests or cycle along the sea. Every corner of the city seems to whisper, "No need to rush". 🪷 Hase-dera Temple with a Japanese garden hidden by a wooden walkway. Or Kotoku-in Temple with the great Buddha of Amida (Daibutsu), a calm and majestic Buddha standing tall in the sky. But what is most impressive is not the magnificence — But it is the stillness surrounded by greenery and wind. 🌸 If you come in spring, Kamakura will be full of cherry blossoms blooming along the railway. If it is summer, the smell of the sea will float gently on the wind. As for autumn The changing leaves beside the ancient temple… is a silent poem ✨ Kamakura is not a city that will excite you But it will make you breathe deeper without realizing it Kamakura (鎌倉) — A seaside city near Tokyo that was once the ancient capital of Japan during the samurai era, and is full of old temples, cherry blossoms, autumn, the sea, and the gentle charm of Japan that is “calm, beautiful, and effortless
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