12 Street & Urban Kamakura’s Kaizo-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Besides the outstanding flowers of the crabapple, the temple also has cherry blossoms, spiraea, and karria blooming this season.
Culture Fill Up at Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum Aleisha Riboldi The Shin Yokohama Ramen museum is a museum dedicated to noodles. Well, truthfully, it's less a museum and more a glorified ramen-only..
Historical Zen at Kamakura's Kencho-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima It was Saturday afternoon and I was at Kencho-ji Temple in Kita-Kamakura. A few minutes before two o’clock a bell rang to sign..
9 Gardens & Parks Fun at Odawara Castle Larry Knipfing Odawara is a rather sleepy town in Kanagawa except for its castle, which is beautiful in the spring around cherry blossom season,..
Historical Ofuna Botanical Garden Jessica A Paje The Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden Flower Center, simply known as Ofuna Botanical Garden, is just 5-minutes from ..
Culture Getting Lost in Kamakura Celine Ong Want to experience the magic of Kyoto but hate dealing with the crowds? Take the road less travelled and hop on a train to Kamakura..
7 Culture Kuzuharaoka Shrine, Kamakura Lily Kuzuharaoka Shrine was established in 1887 and is dedicated to the Kamakura period Imperial loyalist, Hino Toshimoto. These days,..