Shrines in Kamakura

Discover 3 shrines in Kamakura.

Kamakura, Japan

Hansobo Shrine

A mountaintop shrine-temple guarded by a horde of half-demon priests.

The okumiya or "inner shrine" of Zeniarai Benten.

Kamakura, Japan

Zeniarai Benten Shrine

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

The Harakiri Yagura, the site of Hōjō Takatoki's suicide.

Kamakura, Japan

Harakiri Yagura

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

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