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Zuiozan Renge-in Gumyoji (Gumyoji Kannon)

3.5

35 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Minami-ku Gumyoujichou 267

The Japanese government has designated Gumyoji, a temple in Yokohama's Minami Ward, an Important Cultural Property. Worshipers visit it to pray for the safety of their homes and families, success in business, and protection from bad luck. On days of the month that contain an 8, an event called the Festival of the Eleven-Faced Kannon is held, in which people pray for recovery from illness or fulfillment of their most earnest desires. On days of the month that contain a 3, people who want to find a marriage partner or have children come to the Festival of Daishokangiten, the Japanese name for the Hindu god Ganesha.

かつてはこの坂の上にある弘明寺が大地のヘリでそこから先の下ったところは海だったのだろうと想像できる高さです。京急電車から近く、桜の季節は混んでいます。
Yamate Bluff No.111

4.0

64 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Naka-ku Yamatechou 111

Yamate Bluff No.111 built in 1926 is a European residence in the Spanish style which has a red tiled roof and white walls. The basement entered from the rose garden in Minato-no-Mieru Oka Koen (Harbor View Park) is used as a tea room. It is about seven minutes’ walk from Exit 6 at Motomachi-Chukagai Station on the Tokyu Minatomirai Line.

This house was designed by JH Morgan who also designed Berrick Hall. It was the residence of an American (JE Laffin) and is another in the Spanish style and was built in 1926. Entry to the house and...
Shirahata-jinja Shrine

3.5

46 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Fujisawashi Fujisawa 2-4-7

A Shinto shrine located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa dedicated to Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Yoshitsune is said to have been of surpassing abilities, and accordingly this shrine is believed to answer prayers related to martial arts, the performing arts, and scholarship. The Ushiwaka Festival is held at the shrine on May 5. Carp streamers are hung up in prayer for the healthy growth of children, and the shrine grounds bustle with children on the day of the festival.

道路が交差している角に、鳥居が見えてきました。”白旗神社”の石碑が立っています。周りは交通渋滞が起こりそうなにぎやかなところにあります。この神社は”源義経”が祀られているそうです。境内にはその義経と弁慶の銅像が建てられていました。その横には、”伝源義経首洗井戸”がありました。奥州平泉で自害下義経の首が、この地に流れ着き、洗い清められ葬られたと伝えられたそうです。本当！本殿は石段...
Hinatayakushi Hokibo

4.0

40 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Iseharashi Hinata 1644

This is a Koyasan Shingon sect Buddhist temple located in Hinata, Isehara City of Kanagawa. Besides the Yakushi triad statues comprising the principal deities, the Amidanyorai, the four devas, and the twelve divine generals are all located in the sanctuary and are Important National Cultural Properties. Every year on April 15, the annual spring Shunki Reitaisai Festival is held when the sanctuary is open to the public, the gomadaki stick burning, and the Shugendo mountain ascetic ceremonies are held.

ハイキングコースの中間地点に当たるようでハイカーのひとたちがいました。広い境内にある大きなかやぶき屋根は見事でした。
Miyagase Dam Water Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Aikougunaikawamachi Hambara Osawa 5157

This is an interactive center where children can learn while having fun, grasping the importance of water resources through videos and hands-on activities, all while having fun. Located in Aikawa Town, Aiko County, Kanagawa, one not only learns about the system of water and electricity production, but in the Ukiuki Corner, is introduced to the history of the towns and villages in the Miyagase Dam area and can also view the huge satellite photographs on display.

ダムを見に行ったついでに立ち寄りました。小学４年息子はしくみを理解したかは不明ですがペダルを漕いで発電させる体験展示に食いついていました。年中娘には難しいものが多かったですが、塗り絵コーナーもあって遊べました。
Kosoku-ji Temple

4.0

39 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Hase 3-9-7

A Nichiren Buddhist temple located near the Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura’s Hase neighborhood. After Nichiren’s exile to Sado was ended, Yadoya Mitsunori, who had been set to watch Nichiren’s top disciple, Nichiro, turned his own home into a temple, which was then recognized as a Nichiren temple by Nichiro. “Kosoku” is another way to read the name “Mitsunori,” thus giving rise to the temple’s name. In the back of the grounds visitors can find Yadoya’s grave and the dungeon where Nichiro was confined. The grounds are filled with plants, including a Hall crabapple tree over 200 years old, French hydrangeas, cherry trees, wisteria, and Japanese irises, and the temple is considered one of the best temples for flower viewing in all Kamakura.

花海棠が見たくて4月10日に訪れました入場料は100円、8時から17時です鉢植えも含めて境内には花木がたくさんありましたかなりこじんまりしていますが、花の寺と呼ばれるのも頷けますねまあ100円なりの庭園という感じですお目当ての花海棠は落葉気味でしたが、なんとか鑑賞できました花以外にも雉小屋や周回できる池もあり、詰め込みすぎですなお、寺の前の細い道にあるコインパーキング（3台）を...
The Silk Museum

3.5

63 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Naka-ku Yamashitachou 1 Silk Center 2F

This museum is located in Naka Ward Yokohama City. One can view silk cloth and clothes while learning about production centers of silk, and Yokohama's relationship with silk. Year round exhibits are on display within the museum. There are special seasonal exhibits, demonstrations of soft moss-silk making, and braided cord making. Because there are so few institutions that specialize in silk alone, the museum attracts many foreigners among their visitors.

Please note this museum is not accessible t Except by numerous stairs. No disabled access. It has lots of english labels as well as Japanese however no garments except in shop to show finished...
Yokohama History Museum

3.5

31 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Tsuduki-ku Nakagawachuou 1-18-1

This museum is located in the Tsuzuki Ward of Yokohama City. One can learn about the history of Yokohama here. Documents specializing on the City of Yokohama prior to the port was opening are collected and displayed. Outside the museum is the Otsuka/Saikachido Relics Park where one can see historic dwellings on display. The closest station is the Center Kita Station on the Yokohama Municipal Subway.

The title is a play on the shape of the museum; it is a round building with alcoves for each time period; jomon (perhistoric), yayoi (agricultural) age and so on, all to the modern age. In the middle...
CLUB CITTA'

3.5

6 Reviews

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Kanagawa Kawasaki-shi Kawasaki-ku Ogawacho 5-7

This large pioneering live hall without any seating opened 1988 and developed through their first era. It closed for remodeling and reopened in 2002. With the latest stage acoustic equipment installation and multi-media capabilities, they host an array of live performances ranging from fashion shows to plays.

チネチッタの隣にあります。音楽イベントで利用しました。クラブですが、場所が川崎だからか怖い感じはなく、また距離も近いので楽しめる会場でした。
Yasaka Shrine

3.5

4 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Fujisawashi Enoshima 2-3-8

江の島には多くの神社があり口コミ書くのも調べないといけません。上手く書けないので資料抜粋します「江島神社の境内社。腰越の小動神社に祀られていた社が大波で壊され、御窟の前の海中に沈んでいた御神体を漁師が拾い、ここへ祀ったといわれています。」滞在時間10分くらい。
Sounji Temple

3.5

45 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Yumoto 405

This temple, of Rinzai sect’s Daitokuji school located in Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo County, Kanagawa Prefecture, is the family temple of the Japanese military commander during the Sengoku (Warring States) period, Hojo Soun. It is said that the temple was built in 1521 by Soun’s son, Ujitsuna, in line with Soun’s dying wishes. It burned to the ground when Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Odawara, but it was rebuilt to its former glory in 1627. In the grounds of the temple are the graves of five generations of the Hojo family, Lords of Odawara castle, as well as the remains of the dry landscape gardens said to be created by Hojo Nagatsuna. Every year in early November the temple treasures are specially opened to the public.

北条早雲（本人は「伊勢...
Yamate Bluff No.234

4.0

55 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Naka-ku Yamatechou 234-1

Yamate Bluff No.234, built as a part of a reconstruction project after the Great Kanto Earthquake to bring back the foreigners who had left Yokohama, is a residential complex (apartment building) with the typical design of a European residence after the earthquake. On the first floor, it has panel displays about the history of a restored drawing room and Yamate Bluff No.234 while the second floor is used as a rental floor for exhibitions and conferences. It is about seven minutes’ walk from Exit 6 at Motomachi-Chukagai Station on the Tokyu Minatomirai Line.

「山手234番館」は、関東大震災直後（昭和初期）に建設された外国人用の共同住宅として、横浜市内に現存する数少ない遺構のひとつです。建物の敷地は山手本通りを挟んで元町公園の向かい側にあり、周辺に「横浜山手聖公会」の教会堂や、元町公園内に移築された「エリスマン邸」、「山手89-6番館」（現「えの木てい」）など、歴史的建造物が数多く点在する一帯にあります。創建当時の施設は、4世帯の住居が中央部の玄関ポ...
Kanagawa Prefecutral Kanazawa Bunko Museum

4.0

34 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Kanazawa-ku Kanazawachou 142

This museum is located in Kanazawacho, Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City. It houses resources such as the “Kanazawa Bunko”, a samurai book collection collected by Hojo Sanetoki during the mid-Kamakura period, and the old books and art works received from “Shomyoji Temple”, the family temple of Kanazawa Hojo located adjacent. The “Kanazawa Bunko Document”, an old document collection featuring roughly 4,000 letters and other documents written by the family of Kanazawa Hojo, is designated as a National Treasure.

鎌倉時代北条氏の一族が集積を始めた書籍、文書、経文等の博物館です。大きくはありませんが国宝の古文書等があり普通の博物館とは趣を異にします。鎌倉幕府の連署まで務めた一族ですが幕府滅亡と共に滅び、その後は隣接する称名寺が文書等を管理したとか。しかしながら、上杉謙信、徳川家康などが書籍などを持ち出し荒廃したがお寺等が何とか維持し現代に貴重な資料を残して目にすることができます。京急金沢文庫駅東口を出て通り...
Yugawara Art Museum

4.0

38 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunyugawaramachi Miyakami 623-1

Yugawara Art Museum is located in the town of Yugawara in Ashigarashimo County. It consists of a section containing works by artists who had studios in Yugawara as well as a section devoted to the works of Reiji Hiramatsu, a contemporary artist who paints in traditional Japanese style. A rest area in the exhibition galleries overlooks a lovely Japanese garden, with seasonal views of plum, cherry, and other blossoms as well as autumn leaves. The museum also contains a coffee shop and a shop where visitors can buy souvenirs of Yugawara.

県道７５号沿い。割引券の提示で観覧料金１００円割引。プリントアウトお忘れなく。モネ財団から貴重な「モネの睡蓮の株」を譲られ育成しているという平松礼二画伯をはじめ、湯河原や熱海所縁の画家の作品が充実。３階アトリエや庭園は撮影可能。モネ押しは一度足を運んだ方がいいかもね。リゾート地の何チャッテ美術館ならぬ温泉地の何チャッテ美術館以上の価値はあります。
Hongaku-ji Temple

3.5

37 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Komachi 1-12-12

A five-minute walk from the East Exit of JR Kamakura Station. Ashikaga Mochiuji built then donated to the priest Nisshutsu this temple on the site of the Ebisu-do where Nichiren stayed at after returning from his exile to Sado before moving on to the Minobusan Kunon-ji Temple. Because the temple houses some of the ashes of Nichiren from the Kuon-ji Temple, it is also known as the Kuon-ji of the East. The graveyard on the temple’s grounds contains a stone monument said to be the grave of the renowned swordsmith Okazaki Goro Masamune.

鎌倉は鎌倉時代に日蓮上人が幕府の置かれていた鎌倉で辻説法していたエリアです。元々は源頼朝が幕府の裏鬼門に建てた天台宗のお寺でしたが、佐渡に流されて帰還した日蓮上人が此方に逗留して辻説法に出ていたとの事で日蓮宗に。
Chokokuji Temple (Iiyama Kannon)

4.0

31 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Atsugishi Iyama 5605

This is a Koyasan Shingon sect temple located in Iiyama, Atsugi City of Kanagawa. The bronze bell, the Kannon sanctum, the 400 year old yew plum pine tree are all Important Cultural Properties of the prefecture and the city. The sanctum houses the standing eleven faced Kannon bosatsu, also called the Iiyama Kannon, said to be a deity for marital unions. In the spring, the cherry tree lined boulevard is a well-known spot for cherry blossoms in Atsugi City, and bustles with blossom viewing visitors.

厚木市内林中学校近くの道を川沿いに丹沢の方へ向かって走ると、飯山観音の入口交差点があります。その先すぐが駐車場ですが、ハイキングコースの入口でもあるので有料です。いきなりの石段ですが、登った先からの厚木市内の眺めは見応えがあります。御朱印は左手の執務所でいただけます。
Myohoji Temple

4.5

29 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Omachi 4-7-4

The beautiful moss covered stone steps within Myohoji Temple have earned it the nickname Kokedera Temple (Moss Temple). In spring come see the beautiful blooming winter daphne, cherry blossoms, and Japanese irises, while in the summer the Chinese bellflower and cotton rose are blooming, and in the winter daffodils. If you apply in advance you can partake in a Buddhist sermon but please remember to be respectful as this is a working temple. On the grounds are many other monuments worth seeing, such as a memorial stone for Matsuba Valley Hermit Spirits, Hokyoin-to pagoda (the grave of Moriyoshi Shinno), stones with haiku poems by Kawaminami Shouji and Hoshino Tatsuko, and an Ohgizuka (fan mound).

夏期は土日祝日しか苔階段等の重要文化財は拝見出来ません。本堂へのお参りは可能です。日蓮上人から5代後の日叡上人が建立日叡。日叡上人は護良親王の子供
Kibune-jinja Shrine

3.5

30 Reviews

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Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Manazurumachi Manazuru 1117

Legend says about 1,200 years ago, a mysterious light appeared every night offshore of the Mitsuishi Rocks off Cape Manazuru, and a revelation was given in a dream to build the shrine. The deity was enshrined as the guardian of the village. The Kifune Matsuri, a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, is held on July 27th and 28th.

I highly recommend this hike as part of a trip to Kyoto. Its not too hard to get there (it took us an hour from our lodging in Kyoto to get to Kibune). I LOVE Kyoto but it is also a busy place. I...
Living National Treasures Museum

4.0

39 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunyugawaramachi Chuou 3-16-1

The Living National Treasures Museum is an art museum displaying artworks created by Japan’s Living National Treasures (persons designated as Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties), with a particular focus on ceramics, but also including dolls, lacquerware, and other masterpieces. After viewing the exhibits, visitors can enjoy green tea served in tea-ware made by famous Living National Treasures (some now deceased) such as Hamada Shoji, Kaneshige Toyo, and Miwa Jusetsu.

The writer of the headline review does not seem to have got beyond the museum shop. There are three more floors of very good modern Japanese ceramics, several Roualts, a Renoir, a couple of Picasso...
Anyoin Temple

3.5

30 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Omachi 3-1-22

This is a Jodoshu (Pure Land sect of Buddhism) temple in Omachi, Kamakura City. Its honorific mountain name is Gionzan while its temple name is Chorakuji Temple. Chorakuji, the predecessor of the current temple, was built in Hase by Hojo Masako to pray for the soul of her husband Yoritomo, yet it was destroyed by fire due to war in 1333. It was moved to its current location, and the temple name was changed to Masako’s posthumous Buddhist name of Anyoin. On the premises are a giant yew plum pine tree that is more than 700 years old and Masako’s grave, which is marked by a small hokyointo stone pagoda. It is well-known as a famous place to see azaleas and in May the flowers of Omurasaki azalea are in full bloom.

The temple is beautiful and relaxing. I visited also the grave of Akira Kurosawa that moved me a lot.

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Kanagawa Areas

Kanagawa prefecture acts as an extension of the Tokyo metropolis that spills over into coastal towns, most notably Yokohama city, heavily populated and known for its Chinatown and seaside attractions. Just the right distance for a day trip out of Tokyo, Kanagawa is home to some of Tokyo’s most accessible beaches, including around Kamakura, best known for its Big Buddha. Visitors can also travel a little farther afield for a weekend at Hakone onsen town.