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Sea Candle
The lighthouse deck's viewing floor is 101.56 metres above the sea, with Mt Fuji and the Tanzawa mountains on clear days. It's 800 yen.
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What I point out on the way
I spent nine years in Brisbane, from junior high to the end of university, and I guide in English or Japanese. I check our food stops with each shop before the day.
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The shrine steps
The climb to the shrines is steep. The Escar covers 46 metres in about four minutes and costs 500 yen for all three sections.
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The Enoden
The line joins Enoshima and Kamakura. With the 800-yen day pass we can get on and off as we like.
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The Great Buddha
A National Treasure, begun in 1252. For 50 yen you can step inside it, though entry can stop on very hot days.
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Hase-dera
Its Kannon is 9.18 metres tall, one of the largest wooden statues in Japan. The temple is five minutes from Hase Station.
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Hokoku-ji
A grove of moso bamboo, with matcha and a dry sweet served inside it for 600 yen. Last orders are at 3:30 pm.
Wakamiya-oji runs about 2 km in a straight line from the beach to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, laid out after Suzaku-oji in Kyoto. From the top of the shrine's great steps you look over the town, and on clear days out to the Pacific and Izu Oshima.
The bronze torii at the start of Enoshima was first built in 1747 and rebuilt in 1821. The island is steep, and since 1959 the Enoshima Escar, Japan's first outdoor escalator, has lifted people 46 metres up it. On the far side, Chigogafuchi is a rock shelf known for sunsets behind Mt Fuji, and the Iwaya caves are where worship on the island began.
Kamakura asks visitors not to eat while walking in crowded places, so we eat in shops or where we can stop.
