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title: Kamakura
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# Kamakura

Travel journal from Kamakura, with 19 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Ryukoji Temple, Kamakura-Kokomae Station, Kamakura Farmers' Market and Kamakura Central Food Market, Kamakura-Kokomae Station and the seaside crossing.

## Journeys

- [A hundred-year-old house in the town of the Enoden](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kamakura-2/index.md): Living in Kamakura, Part 2（2023-06-04）
- [A Kamakura-vegetable breakfast and a walk on Enoshima](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kamakura-1/index.md): Living in Kamakura, Part 1（2023-05-28）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [A little Kamakura drinking set](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/little-kamakura-drinking-set/index.md): At the farmers' market near Kamakura Station, growers from around Kamakura sell "Kamakura vegetables," many varieties in small quantities, grown with as little chemical fertilizer and pesticide as pos…
- [Kenchin-jiru](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kenchin-jiru/index.md): A soup of root vegetables and tofu, sautéed in oil before simmering.
- [Kamakura morning set with grilled dried fish](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-morning-set-with-grilled-dried/index.md): Kenchin-jiru made with Kamakura vegetables, with dried fish from the market shop grilled alongside.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Enoshima Electric Railway (Enoden)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/enoshima-electric-railway/index.md): Japan's sixth electric railway, which began service on September 1, 1902 between Fujisawa and Katase (now Enoshima).
- [Ryukoji Temple](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ryukoji-temple/index.md): A Nichiren-school temple two minutes' walk from Enoshima Station, at the start of the stretch where the Enoden runs along the road.
- [Kamakura-Kokomae Station](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-kokomae-station/index.md): An Enoden station with the Shonan sea spreading out right in front of the platform.
- [Kamakura Farmers' Market and Kamakura Central Food Market](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-farmers-market-and-kamakura-central/index.md): A few minutes' walk from the east exit of Kamakura Station, this farmers' market has been running since 1928 and is affectionately known as Renbai.
- [Enoden Monaka](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/enoden-monaka/index.md): Ougiya's specialty.
- [Kamakura-Kokomae Station and the seaside crossing](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-kokomae-station-and-the-seaside/index.md): Kamakura-Kokomae, on the Enoshima Electric Railway, is a station right beside the sea.
- [Kamakura vegetables](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-vegetables/index.md): A collective name for vegetables grown by farmers around Kamakura.
- [The bronze torii and Zuishinmon gate of Enoshima Shrine](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/bronze-torii-and-zuishinmon-gate/index.md): Enoshima Shrine consists of three shrines, Hetsumiya, Nakatsumiya and Okutsumiya, and is counted among Japan's three great Benzaiten shrines.
- [Enoshima-don](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/enoshima-don/index.md): Enoshima's signature rice bowl: turban shell simmered in egg and served over rice, offered at many of the island's restaurants.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Ougiya](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ougiya/index.md): A sweets shop dating back to the Edo period, a short walk along the tracks from Enoshima Station, in front of Ryukoji temple.
- [The Sunrise Shack, Inamuragasaki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sunrise-shack-inamuragasaki/index.md): The Japanese flagship of a coffee stand that began in a handmade shack on the North Shore of Hawaii.
- [Chuka Taishin, Kamakura](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/chuka-taishin-kamakura/index.md): A neighborhood Chinese restaurant about three minutes' walk from Kamakura Station, on the corner of the Kamakura Central Food Market, the same building as the farmers' market.
- [Kamakura Agricultural Cooperative Market (Rembai)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kamakura-agricultural-cooperative-market/index.md): A farmers' market run by growers from Kamakura and nearby, started in 1928 and said to be Japan's first marché.
- [Yoridocoro (dried-fish shop in the market)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/yoridocoro/index.md): A dried-fish shop in the Kamakura Central Food Market building next to the farmers' market.
- [Nakamuraya Yokan-ten](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/nakamuraya-yokan-ten/index.md): A Japanese sweets shop on the approach to Enoshima Shrine.
- [Enoshimatei](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/enoshimatei/index.md): A restaurant founded in 1909 on the cliffs at the far end of Enoshima.