7 Historical Bluff No.18 Tomoko Kamishima With its orange roof, white walls and green window frames, Bluff No.18 is a very cute house. The garden is beautifully yellow when..
12 Gardens & Parks Kamakura’s Eisho-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Eisho-ji Temple has been a nunnery since it was established in 1636. The founder of this temple was a woman who once was Tokug..
6 Gardens & Parks Kanagawa's Mitsuike Park, Tsurumi Ramon Geoffrey Evangelista Any other day, Mitsuike seems like a common, ordinary park. But as spring arrives, like magic, the park is turned into a wonderland..
10 Temples & Shrines Kamakura’s Zuisen-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Zuisen-ji Temple has a Zen rock garden designed by Muso Soseki who was not only a high level Zen Buddhist monk but also a Zen artist...
13 Culture The Beautiful Moss Stairs of Sugimoto Temple Lily Kanazawa Street's Sugimoto Temple is famous for being the oldest temple in Kamakura. Along its stone steps is a small, red Niomon..
Culture Doraemon 50th Anniversary Exhibition 2020-2021 Jul 20th 2020 - Jan 31st 2021 Past Event Taking place until the end of January 2021, the Doraemon 50th Anniversary Exhibition celebrates half a century of this much loved..
11 Temples & Shrines Kamakura Zuisen-ji Temple in Autumn Tomoko Kamishima Priest Muso Soseki built this rock garden at Zuisen-ji Temple in Kamakura for his Zen practice, and it shows his strict and se..
13 Temples & Shrines Kamakura Enshrined in Red Ink Carrie Jacobs Gosyuin, a hand drawn and red ink stamp, is a beautiful and unique way to document your visit to a temple or shrine.