I liked wandering through the streets of Kamakura. I liked discovering old traditional wooden houses which seemingly took me back to earlier times. I liked coming across all sorts of cute little interesting things, little decorations locals had arranged around their dwellings to make them special.
Old style wooden house, just how I like it. When I see such house, I always have to think of Samurai New building however with traditional features in one of the main historic streets – Wakamiya Óji Ichi no tórii = The First Gate on Wakamiya Óji, a 1.8 km city´s main avenue runs from Sagami Bay directly to the largest Shinto shrine, Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gú and this street is a backbone of the cityNi no tórii = The Second Gate on the main avenue Wakamiya Óji. It was constructed on behalf of Minamoto Yoritomo´s wife Masako, to pray for a safe birth of their child in 1182. Behind it the Dankazura Approach can be seen, the pavement of which is flanked with lanterns There is this pavement in the middle of the main avenue Wakamiya Óji, leading from Ni no tórri = The Second Gate which can be seen it the end of it, towards the entrance gate to the Tsurugaoka Hachimangú Temple. This is called Dankazura Approach = the main approach to the shrine San no tóorii = The Third Gate marks the entrance to the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine and the end of Wakamiya Óji avenue. Just cross the pedestrian crossing and walk under the tóorii and you are on the shrine grounds. The main shrine can be seen in the distance straight on behind the tóorii on a hill. To find out more about the shrine, you can read my separate article about it 🙂 Komachi-dori = Komachi Street – also has a similar entrance gate at its entrance Komachi Street is always full with people Clock Tower next to Kamakura Station Roku Jizo square = 6 Jizo Roku Jizo square – because there are 6 Jizo statues there – are said to pray for the souls of criminals who died in this area a long time ago
I like it very muchCuuute 🙂 We have similar wheelbarrows and pansies in Slovakia, too 🙂
