Kamakura

Kamakura is a small city in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of , . It is a very popular destination among Tokyoites for its beaches, lively center and many temples. It is the perfect place to take a day off from Tokyo's stress.
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  • Type: City with 173,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Komakura”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kamakura Station and Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Yokosuka Line in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Shinto shrine
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Tsurugaoka Hachimangū is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, , . The shrine is a cultural center of the city of Kamakura and serves as the venue of many of its most important festivals with two museums.

Museum
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The or Kamakura Museum or Kamakura National Treasure House is a museum located on the grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Yukinoshita, Kamakura, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zushi and Yamanouchi.

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is a small city in , about an hour by train south of . It is often visited for its beach, marina, and summer events. Though it has a few historic temples and similar scenery to neighboring Kamakura, it gets much fewer tourists.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of Kamakura, , . Because of the presence of East Japan Railway Company's , it is better known as Kita-Kamakura.

Neighborhood
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is the name of one of the administrative units of Kamakura, a city located in , , about 50 km south-south-west of . lies immediately to the east of Nishi Mikado and Yukinoshita, and used to be called Higashi Mikado.

Kamakura

Latitude
35.3193° or 35° 19′ 9″ north
Longitude
139.547° or 139° 32′ 49″ east
Population
173,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP AAK
Open location code
8Q7X8G9W+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2115184125
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1860672
Wiki­data ID
Q200267
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kamakura” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاماكورا، كاناغاوا”
  • Arabic: “كاماكورا”
  • Asturian: “Kamakura”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kamakura”
  • Balinese: “Kamakura”
  • Basque: “Kamakura”
  • Belarusian: “Камакура”
  • Bengali: “কামাকুরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Камакура”
  • Catalan: “Kamakura”
  • Cebuano: “Kamakura”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاماکورا”
  • Chechen: “Камакура”
  • Chinese: “Kamakura-chhī”
  • Chinese: “鎌倉”
  • Chinese: “鎌倉市”
  • Chinese: “镰仓”
  • Chinese: “镰仓市”
  • Croatian: “Kamakura”
  • Czech: “Kamakura”
  • Danish: “Kamakura”
  • Dutch: “Kamakoera”
  • Dutch: “Kamakura”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاماكورا”
  • Esperanto: “Kamakura”
  • Esperanto: “Kamakuro”
  • Estonian: “Kamakura”
  • Finnish: “Kamakura”
  • French: “Kamakura-shi”
  • French: “Kamakura”
  • Galician: “Kamakura”
  • Georgian: “კამაკურა”
  • German: “Kamakura”
  • Greek: “Καμακούρα”
  • Gujarati: “કામકુરા”
  • Hebrew: “קמקורה”
  • Hindi: “कामाकुरा”
  • Hungarian: “Kamakura”
  • Indonesian: “Kamakura”
  • Irish: “Kamakura”
  • Italian: “Kamakura”
  • Italian: “Kamamura”
  • Japanese: “Kamakura-shi”
  • Japanese: “かまくらし”
  • Japanese: “鎌倉”
  • Japanese: “鎌倉市”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಮಕುರಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Камакура”
  • Korean: “가마쿠라 시”
  • Korean: “가마쿠라시”
  • Latvian: “Kamakura”
  • Literary Chinese: “鎌倉市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kamakura”
  • Macedonian: “Камакура”
  • Malagasy: “Kamakura”
  • Malay: “Kamakura, Kanagawa”
  • Malay: “Kamakura”
  • Maltese: “Kamakura”
  • Marathi: “कामकुरा”
  • Mazanderani: “کاماکورا، کاناگاوا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kamakura-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kamakura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kamakura”
  • Norwegian: “Kamakura”
  • Persian: “کاماکورا، کاناگاوا”
  • Persian: “کاماکورا”
  • Polish: “Kamakura”
  • Portuguese: “Kamakura”
  • Romanian: “Kamakura”
  • Russian: “Камакура Канагава”
  • Russian: “Камакура, Канагава”
  • Russian: “Камакура”
  • Russian: “Канагава Камакура”
  • Scots: “Kamakura”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kamakura”
  • Serbian: “Kamakura”
  • Serbian: “Камакура”
  • Serbian: “鎌倉市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kamakura”
  • Sinhala: “කමකුරා”
  • Slovenian: “Kamakura”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاماکورا، کاناقاوا”
  • Spanish: “Kamakura Kanagawa”
  • Spanish: “Kamakura”
  • Swedish: “Kamakura, Kanagawa”
  • Swedish: “Kamakura”
  • Tagalog: “Kamakura”
  • Tajik: “Kamakura”
  • Tajik: “Камакура”
  • Tamil: “காமகுரா”
  • Tatar: “Камакура”
  • Telugu: “కమకూర”
  • Thai: “คะมะกุระ”
  • Thai: “คามากูระ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kamakura”
  • Turkish: “Kamakura”
  • Ukrainian: “Камакура”
  • Urdu: “کاماکورا”
  • Uzbek: “Kamakura”
  • Venetian: “Kamakura”
  • Vietnamese: “Kamakura”
  • Vietnamese: “Liêm Thương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kamakura, Kanagawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kamakura”
  • Welsh: “Kamakura”
  • Wolof: “Kamakura”
  • Wu Chinese: “镰仓市”
  • Yue Chinese: “鎌倉”

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