Yokohama & Kamakura · Sights

Best Temple in Yokohama & Kamakura

3 places, each checked by our team.

• Kawasaki Daishi (Heiken-ji) 川崎大師 平間寺Kawasaki Daishi — One of Japan's most visited temples, famed for warding off bad luck, with a soaring main hall, an eight-sided pagoda and goma fire rituals; ten…
• Kotoku-in (Great Buddha of Kamakura) 高徳院（鎌倉大仏）Hase (Kamakura) — Temple home to Kamakura's 11.3 m bronze Amida Buddha, cast in 1252 and sitting in the open air since a tsunami destroyed its hall.
• Sojiji Temple (Tsurumi) 大本山 總持寺Tsurumi — One of the two head temples of Soto Zen, a vast complex in Yokohama's Tsurumi with a huge main hall, monks in training and a long corridor polished…