History & Culture in Kamakura

This frenetic mural recalls an annual festival that once took the city by storm.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

Home to 800-year-old zen basin, a 400-year-old pilgrim’s path, and a century-old industrial grotto.

The preserved ruins of the Hōjō clan’s palatial estate, hidden in the basement of a tourist information center.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

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