Culture Akita Tour and Yokote Kamakura Snow Festival Featured The Yokote Kamakura Festival is held every year to pray for a good harvest. Inaniwa noodles is considered one of Japan's most famous wheat noodles.
12 Enjoy Japanese Lotus in Kamakura Larry Knipfing If you visit Kamakura in the summer from mid-July to mid-August, drop in at Hachimangu Shrine, not to see the shrine, but the lotus ponds!
17 Bonbori Matsuri Photos at Kamakura Jessica A Paje artwork displayed on 400 paper shade lanterns that line the raised cherry tree pathway leading up to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kamakura
Shopping Sankai-do Souvenir Shop, Kamakura Tomoko Kamishima Sankai-do souvenir shop, located just in front of Kamakura Daibutsu (the Great Buddha), sells Japanese swords and various ninja weapons
8 Kamakura Asaba-ya Unagi Restaurant Tomoko Kamishima Asaba-ya is a Japanese restaurant along the street to Hase Kannon. They specialize in unagi (grilled eel), but also serve some other..
9 Culture Zuisen-ji Temple, Kamakura - Photos Larry Knipfing Zuisen-ji is another of Kamakura's lovely Zen temples. With its many intriguing contrasts, the temple is interesting to visit year-round.
10 Culture Engaku-ji Temple in Kamakura Josef Diermair Engakuji is known for its Zen. But here in this series of photos, I focus more on the lovely gardens and flowers.
Kamakura Hachiman-gu, Star Festival Tomoko Kamishima Kamakura Hachiman-gu, Star Festival: During the season, beautiful colorful bowls with slips of paper, and bamboo branches adorned with paper decorations