Great Buddha / Kamakura Kanagawa

Great Buddha(大仏)

Get there:
Take JR Yokosuka Line from Downtown Tokyo such a Tokyo Station. It takes approximately fifty minutes to get to Kamakura(鎌倉) Station from Tokyo Station. When you arrive at Kamakura Station, transfer to a Enoden(江ノ電) Line and get off at Hase(長谷) Station that takes theree stops from Kamakura Station.

When you got through the station, take your right.

Go straight on the narrow pedestrian way along the trinket shops for ten minutes, you can find a souvenir shop in front of a entrance gate of temple where the Great Buddha is located.

Pay 200 yen at the booth for admission fee.


Great Buddha which was built in 1252. Althogh Great Buddha that located inside of a large temple hall, its temple hall destroyed by tidal waves in 1495. Since then, the Great Buddha has been standing in the open air.

Being separated between the statue and sill which means simple aseismatic structure.

Appearance of behind

Sandals for Great Buddha

Great Buddha's interior space

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