Who would have guessed that the 4.5 million people who visited Kyoto with us would now appear in this other town, Kamakura, one hour away, on the same day that we decide to go? When Rani visited back in October, she had the place to herself. We, on the other hand, on this first week of the new year, were accompanied by hundreds of thousands of people who need to visit temples and shrines to start the year off right. It took us almost 15 minutes just to inch our way out of the tiny train station.
Luckily, there are many dozen temples, shrines and gardens to chose from so we wandered as far as we could from the madness and managed to find less crowded and lovely gardens, shrines and temples where there was beauty and peace.
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| This Daibutsu (great Buddha) was cast in 1252 and is about 35 ft tall. In 1495 a tsunami washed away the temple it was in. |
super kowai
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