KAMAKURA TRANSPORT
Kamakura Transport options including from Shinjuku Station. Kamakura transport option to see the statue of the Great Buddha.
Kamakura The fastest way in is by JR Yokosuka Line
from Tokyo Station (one hour, ¥890)
and Yokohama (25 minutes, ¥330). The JR Kamakura-Enoshima
Free Kippu (¥1,110 from Yokohama, ¥1,970 from Tokyo) gets you a round trip
from Tokyo to Kamakura (local trains only) plus
unlimited use of Enoden and Shonan Monorail lines.
From Shinjuku Station take the
Shonan-Shinjuku line to Ofuna Station, change to the Yokosuka line to
Kamakura Station, change to Enoshima Dentetsu line to Hase Station. This
trip takes about 77 minutes and one way is 1080 Yen. From the Hase Station
it is about a 500m walk to Kotokuin
Temple. Half way along the path to
Kotokuin Temple, on the left hand
side is
Kaikozan Hase-dera
(also known as the Hase Kannon
Temple). You should visit this on either the way to or from
Kotokuin
Temple. Then return to Hase Station and catch the train back to Kamakura
Station. From there head to the western side of the Station, pass the bus
station, to the
Komachi Shopping Street. Here you can either stop for lunch
or head along the street heading north west to the entrance of the
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine.
A cheaper alternative is to take the private Odakyu line from
Shinjuku Station to Fujisawa,
then change onto the rattling old Enoden (江ノ電) half-train/half-streetcar
line that terminates in Kamakura. The longer
(about 90-minute) travel time is compensated for by views of Enoshima island
and the Shonan coast. The Enoshima-Kamakura Free Pass (¥1,430) will get you
a roundtrip from Shinjuku Station
and unlimited use of the Enoden line for one day.
Great Buddha Kamakura - Picture by
Jim Mills
(Article based on Wikipedia article and used under the GNU Free Documentation License)