For our last full day here, we took a trip to Kamakura, which is about 3/4 hour's train ride away. We left at 9:00 which put us well ahead of the weekend crowds - it seems that the early bird still does get the worm out here too. There are three main tourist draws here: The Giant Buddha, a large shrine and also a small shrine up in the granite hills. We decided to do all three.
The small shrine has a tradition that if you if you wash your money here, it will quadruple in value. Now I came here ten years ago and did the entire washing thing, and it didn't work. In view of the slightly damp state of all of us with the humidity, I left the wet money thing alone this time.
We returned to the town via a Starbucks and thence on to the Buddha. It is large; about 35 feet tall. It was also begun in 1252 which makes it older than me! Well, a little bit.
We then went off to the large shrine and enjoyed some very large and colorful lilies growing in the moat area. By now the tourist population had grown and it was hard to take any pictures that didn't have a couple of million Japanese in them. But we saw what we wanted to see and then took off to a small and very nice noodle restaurant.
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