We road a tourist bus from Kotoku-in to Kamakura Station. (It accepts Suica)
From Kamakura Station we walked through a local shopping district to a mall area leading to the Shrine.
We were greeted by a grant Torii gate. This is the entrance to the Tsuruoka Hachimagu Shrine. Tsuruoka Hachimagu is the most important shrine in Kamakura. It was originally built in 1973 and moved to its present location in 1191.
Hachiman, whom the shrine is dedicated to, is the Shinto god of war. Minamoto Yoritomo invited Hachiman to this shrine to protect the Kamakura shogunate.
The steps leading up to the shrine was steep. It was quite a hike up the stairs.
We were rewarded a cherry blossoms (sakura). It was early March, too cold for sakura to blossom in most of the Kanto region. But Kamakura's close proximity to the Pacific Ocean makes it possible for sakura to blossom early.
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