Kamakura
Kamakura is a small city in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Japan. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: 663highland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kamakura and Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine.
Kamakura
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamakura Station is a railway station on the Yokosuka Line in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine
Shinto shrine
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 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.
Kamakura Museum of National Treasures
Museum
Photo: Urashimataro, Public domain.
The Kamakura Museum of National Treasures or Kamakura Museum or Kamakura National Treasure House is a museum located on the grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zushi and Yamanouchi.
Zushi
Photo: Tadashi Okoshi, CC BY 2.0.
Zushi is a small city in Kanagawa, Japan about an hour by train south of Tokyo. 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.
Yamanouchi
Neighborhood
Yamanouchi is a neighborhood of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Because of the presence of East Japan Railway Company's Kita-Kamakura Station, it is better known as Kita-Kamakura.
Nikaidō
Neighborhood
Nikaidō is the name of one of the administrative units of Kamakura, a city located in Kanagawa, Japan, about 50 km south-south-west of Tokyo. Nikaidō lies immediately to the east of Nishi Mikado and Yukinoshita, and used to be called Higashi Mikado.
Kamakura
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, tourist destination, ancient city, and locality
- Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.3193° or 35° 19′ 9″ northLongitude
139.547° or 139° 32′ 49″ eastPopulation
173,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP AAKOpen location code
8Q7X8G9W+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2115184125OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Galician: “Kamakura”
- 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”
- 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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